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August 11, 2007 at 09:31 by Mike McQuaid
This week I’m gonna be away on a Scottish Scripture Union camp with a bunch of 13-18 year old kids/youth/young adults/whatever, singing some songs, doing some sport and outdoor activities and discussing some theology.
This means I’ll be unable to do any KDE work, as it’s my one week of the year when I am completely internetless and computerless all week and far too busy to use one even if I had one to access! When I get back I have two days till the end of Summer of Code and seven days till the KDE-PIM feature freeze on the 25th, also the same day that I need to drive about 500 miles down to Ipswich in a van with all my worldly possessions!
For those in Edinburgh, I’m having a party on the 22nd for my 23rd birthday/goodbye so I hope to see some of you there. For those in KDE, I hope I’ll see you plenty on IRC as I work frantically to get some of these features into the tree.
Before the freeze I’m planning on getting attachment and category support for journals working, attachment support working for my blog kresource so you can e.g attach an image to a journal, reference it inline and have it uploaded when the blog post is uploaded (needs MetaWeblog or better), and get a WYSIWYG HTML editor working for journals and POSSIBLY for all incidences e.g. also events and todos.
Better get my kit packed for the 150 minute drive up to Altnacriche (near Aviemore). See you in a week, Internet!
Posted in Christianity, Life
Evangelism + Fun = Win
June 2, 2007 at 02:50 by Mike McQuaid
I recently discovered a project in and around the Edinburgh region called The Lighthouse Bus.
Basically a church bought up an old double-decker bus, decked it out with nice kit and now use it for youth and adult outreach. I was reading about how recently they drove it into the centre of Edinburgh and gave a quiz and free alcohol to a bunch of students and then explained why.
No preaching, no judging, no pushing the image of “boring” Christians who can’t have a good time. I read about this sort of outreach and it makes me really happy. To often I feel Christians can completely fail to actually connect with people about why they have their faith, instead seeming a bit wierd or alien and as if they no longer can have a good time.
To those involved in this project: hats off to you and good work!
Posted in Christianity
