He’s Just Had Coffee

Chris Caines quoted me today and it made me smile.

This is advertising, but hopefully interesting to a lot of my readers. Some friends and I have been scheming for a while about making some things happen in the integral scene in Australia. One of the outcomes of that scheming is that we’re bringing Diane Hamilton to Sydney to hold a retreat in September. This is […]

To my considerable surprise, my church recently decided to nominate me to the priesthood. After a couple of days of turning this around in my head and examining it from a few angles, questioning whether I’m worthy, whether I’m ready, whether I’m the right person for the job, I accepted their decision. Today, our Patriarch, The […]

“The primary goal of a social network is to connect people, to simplify their communication, and to help them stay in touch.” Alex Iskold on Read/Write Web This view is widely held by people who have failed to understand Granovetter’s idea of “weak ties” – contacts you can maintain with minimal maintenance. Social networks […]

I seem to have a job. I started on Monday at NICTA working on the Braccetto project with my old friends Markus and Gregor. The job’s part-time and on a six month contract. We’re building table-top collaborative applications for people trying to get crucial things done. The project’s a collaboration between clever people at CSIRO and […]

For anyone wondering what’s got my attention right now, I’ve been collaborating with some local folk to set up a Gnostic community in Sydney as a local branch of the AJC. I’m doing this partly as a component of my Formation work with the church, because if/when I finally become a priest, I’m going to […]

So, yeah… « Order of Santa Ignora: Everyone’s praying for the victims and their families, and you know, that’s a good thing. Prayer good. I’m firmly on the side of prayer. News shows and blogs are all beatifying the people who were on the wrong end of the gun, and demonizing the person who […]

I’ve told this a few times, but never written it down. Here goes. HP Lovecraft and August Derleth are sitting at an al fresco cafe on the abominable plateau of Leng. Sipping absinthe, as you do. It’d be a nice place if it wasn’t for the maddening cyclopean architecture with the obviously alien non-Euclidean geometry, but […]

Bartholomew saith unto him: Declare unto us, Lord what sin is heavier than all sins? Jesus saith unto him: Verily I say unto thee that hypocrisy and backbiting is heavier than all sins: for because of them, the prophet said in the psalm, that ‘the ungodly shall not rise in the judgement, neither […]

A few of my friends and family heeded my request to let me know what they think of me. Here’s an early version. You can see a more up-to-date version by clicking the link at the bottom. That page also has links to explain where this kind of psychograph came from. If you think you know […]

And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men [ἁλιείς ἀνθρώπων] — Matthew 4:18-19 “Andrew” (Ανδρέας) means “strong” […]

My dear brother Shawn has started Big Hearts: Creative by Donation – which is intended to coordinate pro bono work by designers for charities and non-profits. Go take a look and think about whether you could offer your skills to some good organisation who might need it. Technorati Tags: design