Saw this today too. Cyberduck a free OSX FTP client.
I currently use another free FTP client (when I’m not using the command line) RBrowserLite for uploading stuff to the web site outside of Movable Type but who can resist an app called “Cyberduck”?
Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
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Monkey Food have a selection of small Mac OSX apps on their web site. The “Tagging Service” looks really useful for adding HTML tags into blog entries.
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Lent is bizarre down here in the Antipodes.
It starts when summer is ending – during it the clocks are set back as daylight saving time ends – and the days get shorter. The temperatures drop and by Easter it can be getting cold and wet. So the imagery of Easter as heralding in new life, a new springtime, new birth sort of gets lost. Lent becomes the long, spiral into winter, towards Gethsemane and Good Friday and not necessarily out of it. When Eastertime is done the world here enters winter.
I’ve been thinking about this and about how Easter might signify not merely the entering of the long dark but instead the power to live in the winter, when there is no spring.
Flicking through Joan Chittister’s little book “In a high spiritual season” I came across this meditation on moving through autumn and into winter. While it says November it could be April/May here instead.
On the East Coast, November is a sear month, beautiful for its bleakness. The skies hang gray and heavy, the wind gnaws and bellows. Life changes drastically from the velvet days of early autumn. The things we love begin to die right before our eyes. The roses begin to shrivel on the bush, the sun draws away, the colors around us start to darken. Then the streets get quieter, the neighbors disappear inside their houses, and the days darken before the light has had time to seep through the mist of morning. The earth rests.
Autum is a time of great life learnings. We learn that we cannot control the passage of time in life. We learn to accept each of the stages of life with serenity. We learn to look to new moments in life with hope rather than dispair. -
First day lecturing in the new semester today. New college (Carey Baptist College) and a new course Humanity and Hope – “An exploration of the Christian understanding of the nature of human beings and the concept of Christian hope.”
Some really good topics here including the nature of the human person, understandings of the soul and image of God, sexuality, being human in the contemporary (technocultural) world, as well as themes of (eschatological) hope for creation, individuals and communities.
Allows for the interplay of the doctrines of humanity and creation with eschatology within a contemporary context.
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Congratulations to Steve Taylor who got the big “thumbs up” to his PhD oral yesterday. Why don’t you drop on by e~mergent kiwi: Examiners recommendations and leave a message for him.
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Saw these tonight
The Grace Lent Blog where “every day during lent someone from the grace community/network will (if they remember) post a scripture, a thought, a reflection, an animation, an insight, a photo or a space to be silent….”
And Maggi’s nice summary of Lent, Ash Wednesday and Shrove Tuesday.
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Today is Ash Wednesday – a time of self examination as Lent begins.
A collect for Ash Wednesday from the New Zealand Prayer Book.
God of the desert, as we follow Jesus into the unknown,
may we recognise the tempter when he comes;
let it be your bread we eat,
your world we serve and you alone we worship.An excellent contemporary collect for urban dwellers is A Collect for the City Desert by Matt Humm.
More about Ash Wednesday at BBC – Religion & Ethics – Ash Wednesday.
For more on Lent and why “purple” see BBC – Religion & Ethics – Lent. (Some Christian traditions use different colours for Ash Wednesday and Lent (including unbleached linen)).
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Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras) today. On Saturday while at Cityside Baptist we were all given a small black envelope with a fold-out series of reflections for Lent inside it. Some thoughts for milestones through Lent with suggestions for reflective activities on that day.
Today’s entry reads
SHROVE TUESDAY – 24 February. Day before Lent
Sometimes know as ‘pancake Tuesday’ from the tradition of using up the eggs and fat in the house before the Lenten fast.Suggestion: Gather friends together to make and eat pancakes. Talk together about changes you would like to make to who you are and how you live your life.
Sounds like a plan to me.
We’re having house group here for pancakes tonight – must go and get some lemons off the tree in the garden.
More info on Shrove Tuesday at: BBC – Religion & Ethics – Shrove Tuesday.
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Just looking through my bookmarks collection and came across Heidi Campbell’s Web Page: Research in New Media and Religious Online Communities. She’s “investigating the nature of community, religion and the social through an analysis of new media technologies.” Intriguing stuff.
There are some links to things she’s written including online versions of some of them.
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Some links to activities and reflections for Lent and Easter from the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. They’re pretty trad but they can either stand on their own or as a starting point for variations upon the theme. See presbyterian.org.nz: Lent and Easter 2004