The episode on the weekend where Israeli jeeps broke up a protest of Palestinian primary school children with stun grenades and tear gas brought tears to my eyes. What does it take for people to wake up and realise that what they are doing is outside the bounds of moral responsibility? I’m not saying that either side in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is right, there is manifestly barbarism and wrong on both sides. What I am saying is that there should be a point when people look at the means necessary to reach their ends and realise that the means they are using will make it impossible for the goals they hold dear to be achieved.
Archive for March, 2003
200047230
Mar 26
Is it my imagination or is there a dearth of good Java wiki implementations ? Twiki has nearly everything I need but it’s written in perl (yuck!)
Spam Gourmet
Mar 25
spamgourmet – disposable email addresses and spam filtering is a really great concept. The following mailto link will deliver a maximum of 20 messages to me and then silently eat the rest of the mail. So get in quick if you want to mail me 
(Is anyone reading this ?)
What Would Justify War ?
Mar 25
Ask the next person you talk with about the war in Iraq what would justify to them an attack on Iraq ? A nuclear bomb detonated in Sydney or Melbourne ? The threat of one ? Then ask the same question of the guy in the convenience store near me whose family is in Baghdad.
Food for thought.
Singleness
Mar 25
I saw a videotaped sermon on singleness on the weekend and for once what was being said made sense. I don’t know how many people have tried to tell me over time that there are advantages to being single but I never got it. The idea that singles have more time to devote to God never quite clicked but on Satirday night it suddenly all made sense. The reason it did was that the thirtysomething group at Paradise is actually using the time they have available to really do things for God and has made that their focus. When you see a group of people, particularly the leadership, going all out and see the results that brings for the kingdom and then hear the message on singleness again it makes sense. These guys put following after God as number 1 and let the other parts of traditional singles ministry follow instead of the other way around. I can only hope that more churches pick this sort of ministry up, who knows what God could do
Prevayler
Mar 25
Prevayler is an interesting twist on the whole database idea. Apart from the dramatic increase in speed (9000 times over Oracle claimed) it seems to require a significant amount of programmer discipline to get around the fact that prevalent systems don’t have transactions. It also has some interesting implications for architecture.I’m playing around with Prevayler and Webwork at the moment and it’s really neat that webwork actions can also be Prevayler commands. It certainly leads to minimal persistence code.
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