Go Rowan Go
Vicky and myself have said this before, but I'll say it again. For the top man in the Church of England, the current Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is surprisingly moderate, progressive and possibly even cool (via The Guardian):
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has stepped into the controversy between religious fundamentalists and scientists by saying that he does not believe that creationism - the Bible-based account of the origins of the world - should be taught in schools.
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Dr Williams spoke of his determination to hold the third-largest Christian denomination together in its row over the place of gay clergy. He was also highly critical of parts of the church in Africa and said he did not wish to be seen as "comic vicar to the nation", speaking out on issues where he can make no difference.
WinXP Madness
Recently I had to reboot my laptop into Windows so that Vicky could use iTunes. After a few minutes, this little dialog popped up.
Some automatic updates had been downloaded once I'd logged in, and I now had to restart. The day before I had a similar dialog which had disabled the Restart Later but didn't have a countdown, so I moved the dialog to the side and carried on (luckily it wasn't system modal). However a five minute timer is just amazingly bad: did installing the security fix break the system so much that it has to be rebooted now, and applications will start to crash and die shortly?
NP: Maxinquaye, Tricky
