The singer, song-writer and entertainer Michael Jackson has passed away, apparently from a heart attack. Paramedics were called to his house early this evening, and had to perform CPR. He was taken to the UCLA medical center where he was pronounced dead. He died of a cardiac arrest, and arrived at the hospital in a deep coma. He was pronounced dead shortly after his arrival. There was some confusion over his death, with some US media outlets releasing his death before it had been officially b... Read Full Story

The black van sat at the side of the long single-track road. The two men in the front seat were busy staring out the main window. An acqusation-filled silence passed between the two men. The driver, a tall black man, with dread-locks and a once-colourfull hat was resting his feet either side of the steering [...] Read Full Story

I was Stumbling around the internet, as is my want, when I really should have been doing other things, and I came accross a wonderful article about someone who’s trying to create a minor god called Olly. It was the kind of article with such a random opening that I found myself reading it. There was nothing really new in the article, appart from the idea of the minor god Olly, but there were a few things that I thought worthy of repeating. We’ve all heard of the myths about Parking... Read Full Story

It’s been a long time, but here we go. Another release of that IRC Java Client that you’ve all been waiting for (go on, admit it, you know you have been). It’s all contained in the Zip attached to this post. Running: Download and unzip the file into a single director, eg c:\Birch or ~/Birch open a console type “java MainProgram” You should see a Window open up. Press “File..” Open the Properties Dialogue Make Changes Click Apply Press the Red Arrow ... Read Full Story

When checking out my statistics page to see if my blog was getting anything like popular, I discovered that this question had been asked somewhere out in the googlesphere, and had some-how come to my blog. I don’t know if the person that typed this question found an answer out there, but I know that they’ve not found what they were looking for on this blog. The reson for that should be pretty obvious, I’m not yet a fully trained Anglican Priest. But I thought I’d put m... Read Full Story

Two hermits lived together for many years without a quarrel. One said to the other, ‘Let’s have a quarrel with each other, as other men do.’ the other answered, ‘I don’t know how a quarrel happens.’ The first said, ‘Look here, I put a brick between us, and I say, “That’s mine.” That is how you begin a quarrel.’ So theyput a brick between them, and one of them said, ‘That’s mine.’ The other said, “No; it&... Read Full Story

A few days late, but I figure that I should write up what I did for Holy Week. Admitedly it’s a bit like what I did on holiday, but hopefully less cheesy and more spiritually enlightening. I spent the week, along with 3 other ordinands along a gruelling Holy Week. this seemed to mostly be because I spent the week suffering from new bed syndrome. It was a very High, or at least, trying wanting to be High Church, so morning and evening prayer, with at least Eucharist once per day. We spe... Read Full Story

Caution: Spoilers Ahead I’ve just been to see the film, Watchment. It goes without saying, it was ACE. I, like most people who have a soft spot for Rochanc was really irritated when he died, but I can appreciate why it was a must. Of course, the film has that wonderful use of music that gives away the plot to those that are paying attention. You’ll find exposes on the film, and the amazing use of Camera to make it look very much comic book, the way that there is so much going on i... Read Full Story

Sometimes these ideas just come to you. Here’s the first 1500 words of what appears to be a story that I just started writing. I don’t know where it’s going, or what it’s going to end up like, but I thought I’d share it with you: Priest Thanks, ~BX Read Full Story

I had to start somewhere. I had to sit down, and try to work out what precisely it is that I believe. Odd, I hear you metophorically say. Surly, your training to be an Ordinand, your obviously Christian, how can you at this point start trying to work out what you believe? Well, it’s like this. Before coming to study Theology, I knew what I believed. They were Belief Islands. Little bits of Christianity which I believed, and held to be true, but didn’t in any way affect the other... Read Full Story