Brussels Holiday

Photos from our holiday in Brussels now online: Part I Part II Part III

Birthday and Shakespeare

It was my birthday yesterday. Jennifer and I enjoyed a performance of Henry IV Part II at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford, courtesy of the RSC. The play lies in a series of historical plays written by William Shakespeare, starting with Richard II, Henry IV (Parts 1 & 2), Henry V, Henry VI (Parts 1,...

Retreating to the abbey…

I've just got back from our leadership retreat at Launde Abbey, a country get-away owned by the Diocese of Leicester and run as a retreat centre. It's near a small village called East Norton, just off the A47 between Leicester and Peterborough. The frosty views were incredible. More photos on Facebook but a couple to...

Christmas at the Union

Yesterday we (OpenHeaven) ran "Christmas at the Union", our Christmas event for 2007 at Loughborough Students Union. It was a great evening, carols, Santa, stories, sweets, silly songs and a deeper message about the meaning behind Christmas. Afterwards we (the "crew" team) pigged out on a Chinese takeaway, which was somewhat larger then we had...

MS Log Parser

Today I've been working on logging and auditing for our web app. We've already got it logging major events (searches, views, updates) but today I've added in auditing of any changes that a user makes. This leads to one thing - huge log files. But help is at hand in the form of Microsoft's LogParser...

New Blog

Good morning! From now on I will be using the free blog as wordpress.com and piping it through to Facebook for all to see...I'll be importing my previous blog posts shortly.