“An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale hit Wythenshawe in the early hours of Wednesday. Victims were seen wandering around aimlessly, muttering. The tremor decimated the area causing approximately £30 worth of damage. Several priceless collections of mementos from Majorca and the Costa del Sol were damaged beyond repair. Three areas of historic burnt [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Manchester News
Posted in Humour on Friday, February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Moby
Posted in Music on Friday, February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Moby Video –
God Bless This Mess …… Sheryl Crow
Posted in Music on Friday, February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sheryl Crow – God Bless This Mess
Creating a slide show with Windows Movie Maker
Posted in Documentary, Media, Movies, Photography on Thursday, February 28, 2008 | 41 Comments »
Any issues, please read the following link:- http://aavey.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/windows-movie-maker/
Creating a slide show with Windows Movie Maker – Windows XP comes with a small program called Windows Movie Maker that most photographers may not have realised could be a useful tool. Peter Bargh shows you how it can be used as great tool for creating fun slide shows.
Windows [...]
A review of the Fuji Finepix S9600 digital camera
Posted in Photography on Thursday, February 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We decided to treat ourselves to a new camera. Depending on how much time I have from May onwards, I intend to spend some time rediscovering my old hobby/job. It has a movie capability of just under 1 hour with a 2 Gig memory card, and that will be useful for my little film projects [...]
Photo Journalism E-zine – ‘Lunatic’.
Posted in Media, Photography on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been really bored today. I have done my prep for Sunday’s service in Prison, and decided to look for some online e-zines.
Here is one called Lunatic. It isn’t, but it is interesting. I think degree studying has created a vacuum in me that dislikes the obvious anymore and rejects it!
It also has some [...]
Yesterday…
Posted in Personal on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sue and I both travelled to Leeds yesterday. It was my dad’s funeral. The crematorium was in Rawdon, not far from where we used to live. We drove through Bradford, Greengates, and past our last house in Rawdon. We went carefully, having a look at the changes that we could see. This was the period [...]
Earthquake hits much of England
Posted in Media, News on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It isn’t very often anything wakes me up, but this did. The fortunate thing was that it was centred in Lincolnshire, a very rural are compared to further inland.
It was a bit worrying though at 1am.
Moment quake hit
The biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years has shaken homes across large parts of [...]
An idea….
Posted in Media, Movies, Music, Poetry, Religion on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been interested in using different media to convey Christianity. I have in the past been trying to show our young adults group how we can find contact points with cultures in some unexpected places and forms. One of the resources I have tended to mine has been Youtube, where I have used various [...]
Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts
Posted in Religion on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Robert Piggott
Religious affairs correspondent, BBC News
The scholars say they are returning to the original values of Islam
Turkey is preparing to publish a document that represents a revolutionary reinterpretation of Islam – and a controversial and radical modernisation of the religion.
The country’s powerful Department of Religious Affairs has commissioned a team of theologians at Ankara [...]
