Greg and Poppy’s wedding in February with the girls as bridesmaids. My 30th birthday and combined birthday celebrations with my mum’s 60th in the Cotswolds at the end of April. Going to the London Men’s Convention with Des and some of the men from church. Starting to get into gardening and growing lots of tomatoes. Holiday to Malta with Des where the girls swimming really took off greatly. Our summer Hampshire pass, visiting some of the sites around - and especially our family trip to Basingstoke to visit Basing House and Milestones museum Our lovely anniversary weekend in Torquay thanks to Anne and Des.

My 2011 Christmas Card

Yes I know it’s now the 2nd December so this is a day late, but here’s a list of the online advent calendars I’ve seen so far (and I’ll probably keep adding to it!) 24 Ways - Web development tutorial every day till Christmas DTS Advent Devotionals - A devotional each day on the names of Jesus Adfont Calendar - A free webfont every day in advent Prezzo - A competition to win vouchers each day

What I was doing… Fixing a bug in some SQL

You know that I have served your father with all my strength, yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me. (Genesis 31:6-7) In the many years that Jacob had worked for Laban, he had a tough time. First he agreed to work for 7 years so that he could marry Rachel and then Laban swapped his daughters so that he ended up marrying Leah instead, then he had to work a further 7 years to marry Rachel.

The vodafone website doesn’t seem to have any record of my data usage and is confused about how much I’m allowed (see screenshot below), so when I received a text from them saying I was near my limit (with no detail as to how close, just the price for going over) I decided to get in touch with them about it. Here’s the full transcript from my online chat with them, with just my personal details removed:

For a while I’ve been turning off iptables to let my secondary machine connect as synergy client to let me use one keyboard and mouse across both machines. Finally today I decided to set up the rules properly to do it, so here’s how: Create a new rule file in the iptables chain directory for incoming rules: sudo vi /etc/iptables.d/filter/INPUT/53-custom-synergys.rule with the following lines in it: # Allows incoming flows for Synergy.

Abraham told Abimelech Sarah was his sister, so he’d taken her to be his wife. Before he does anything, God comes to him in a dream to warn him. God keeps Abimelech from sinning thus resulting in him bringing fear of God to him and his people and providing for Abraham and Sarah. Reaction: Arose early to obey "You are a dead man...for the penalty of your sin is death" God comes and prevents the sin from increasing - he protects Sarah where Abraham should have done, but more than that - Abimelech’s nation now fears God.

If we were to talk less and pray more, things would be better than they are in the world John Owen, The Holy Spirit: His Gifts and Power [Christian Focus, 2004], 362

He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days. But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark.