Posts Tagged ‘Blogging’
There have been no blog posts for a few days because I’ve been catching up on paper work that has been ignored for too long. Files and documents have accumulated unattended around my home office and on my computer drive since we moved into our new house last September. Now I need to organise, verify, [...]
Tags: Blogging
Posted in Personal | 4 Comments »
May 1st, 2009 | Comments Off
A few hours ago this comment was left at my recent post, “Swine flu hits Windsor, Nova Scotia”, by someone who gave the name “ryan gilby”: I THINK THIS IS HORRIBLE!! im infected to but no one knows Just hilarious. StatCounter provides more information on the joker’s identity. (Click on image below for larger view.) [...]
Tags: Blogging, Chutzpah, King's-Edgehill School, Nova Scotia, Swine flu
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April 27th, 2009 | Comments Off
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) today condemned the continued detention of Christian blogger Hani Nazeer, who was arrested by State Security last October. His arrest was prompted by complaints from Muslims over material posted at his blog. ANHRI also alleges that the arrest “occurred with the collaboration of the Church in [his [...]
Tags: Blogging, Civil liberties, Coptic Church, Egypt, Persecution
Posted in Africa, Christianity, Media and Journalism, Religious Liberty/Persecution | Comments Off
Good news! Hamoud Bin Saleh, who was arrested in January after announcing on his blog that he had converted from Islam to Christianity, has been released from detention. Although he was freed in late March, the news was only reported today by Middle East Concern. Hamoud was arrested on 13th January 2009 and detained at [...]
Tags: Blogging, Hamoud Bin Saleh, Persecution, Saudi Arabia
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Christianity, Islam, Religious Liberty/Persecution | 3 Comments »
Farsi Christian News Network is reporting that two Christians from Isfahar, Iran, involved in internet evangelism and blogging were taken into custody last month. A man masquerading as a Christian pastor deceived them into thinking they were going to a secret house church meeting. [A] 30 years old Christian man by the name of Mazaher [...]
Tags: Blogging, Iran, Persecution
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Christianity, Religious Liberty/Persecution | 4 Comments »
March 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Internet users in the Far East are making fun of a Chinese government campaign against online pornography and other allegedly subversive material, and China has responded by trying to stamp out the satire. Chinese netizens are reacting angrily to reported attempts by government censors to stamp out a humorous form of protest against a recent [...]
Tags: Blogging, Censorship, China, Chutzpah, Folly, Internet
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Media and Journalism | 1 Comment »
March 18th, 2009 | Comments Off
The Ministry of Islamic Affairs in the Maldives has been busy blocking access to dissident, Christian, and other unIslamic websites. Ironically, this occurs only one week after President Mohamed Nasheed announced his intention to make the Maldives a safe haven for oppressed journalists from other countries. The list of websites banned by Anni’s [Nasheed’s] government [...]
Tags: Blogging, Censorship, Civil liberties, Maldives, Persecution
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Christianity, Islam, Media and Journalism, Religious Liberty/Persecution | Comments Off
My friend Alan. who blogs as The Sheepcat, is posting his spiritual journey from “out and proud” homosexual and gay-rights activist to Roman Catholic convert. He is now engaged to a smart, lovely, and devout woman named Theresa. May God bless them and their marriage. Part 1 of his story is posted here, and Part [...]
Tags: Blogging
Posted in Christianity, Life Issues, Personal | 2 Comments »
March 15th, 2009 | 1 Comment
The web project I mentioned a few days ago has come to fruition. The Parish of Christ Church, Windsor, Nova Scotia, has gone online with a very spiffy website (if I say so myself). Actually, it’s a WordPress blog masquerading as a website, but whatever. Several sermons by our rector, The Rev. David Curry, and [...]
Tags: Blogging, David Curry, Nova Scotia
Posted in Anglican, Christianity | 1 Comment »
March 10th, 2009 | Comments Off
There have been no new posts here yesterday and today because I have been at work on another web project. I hope to resume blogging in a day or two.
Tags: Blogging
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February 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Masimov last month launched his personal blog and ordered his ministers to do likewise. However, the PM seems to have some issues with a common blog feature— comments. Since the launch, his blog has received thousands of comments, many of them critical of the government. So far so good. But [...]
Tags: Blogging, Central Asia, Folly, Kazakhstan
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Media and Journalism | 1 Comment »
February 1st, 2009 | 3 Comments
Saudi Arabian authorities last month arrested Hamoud Bin Saleh and blocked his blog, Saudi Masihi, after he announced his conversion from Islam to Christianity. So, no one using the internet inside Saudi Arabia could view the blog. Now, however, Blogger.com has blocked his blog, so no one in the world can view it. Anyone trying [...]
Tags: Blogging, Civil liberties, Hamoud Bin Saleh, Persecution, Saudi Arabia
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Christianity, Computers and technology, Religious Liberty/Persecution | 3 Comments »
February 1st, 2009 | 4 Comments
A week ago, I posted an item about a long-running child custody battle that ended up in an Ontario court. Ten years after the parents split, Justice Faye McWatt ordered their three daughters taken from the mother and given into the sole custody of the father because of the mother’s relentless campaign to alienate them [...]
Tags: Blogging, Chutzpah, Hypocrisy, Marriage and family, Ontario
Posted in Canada, Life Issues, Media and Journalism | 4 Comments »
January 30th, 2009 | Comments Off
It’s a very old joke, I know, but a British-born blogger who lives in Poland has added some hilarious updates. This has been around for years in one form or another but I always enjoy it. Here’s a version that was in the Spectator recently: Socialism – You have two cows. The State nationalises one [...]
Tags: Blogging, Folly
Posted in In a Jocular Vein | Comments Off
January 15th, 2009 | 2 Comments
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reports that Saudi authorities have arrested Hamoud Bin Saleh (at right) and blocked his blog following his online announcement that he has converted from Islam to Christianity. Based on information obtained by ANHRI, the Saudi authorities jailed the young blogger at the infamous Eleisha political prison in [...]
Tags: Blogging, Civil liberties, Hamoud Bin Saleh, Persecution, Saudi Arabia
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Christianity, Islam, Media and Journalism | 2 Comments »