I haven't made a post for so long that I think it's about time. I have been doing more work on Tillich's conception of God, or rather his arguments for the impossibility of such a conception; planning to plunder John Macquarrie for similar points; trying to write an abstract for a conference on interdisciplinarity (which, the online edition of the OED informs me, is a word). But I haven't always been working, you understand; I can't always work. On that 'note', in fact, I shall be singing Evensong at Selwyn tonight to an unfamiliar set of preces and responses. It's insane, insane I tell you.

Wireless

I've recently bought a marvellous new machine which is so small that it can be taken almost anywhere. A good friend of mine remvoved the operating system it came with and installed Ubuntu Eee. The advantage of this operating system is that it is marvellous when it works. The disadvantage is that it doesn't, yet, quite, work with the hardware, perhaps because it existed before my machine did. But I like it so much that I've decided that it's worth the battle. The real test will be when the update is released at the end of October.

I've also been initiated into the geeky world of Wi-Fi in which people in anoraks wander round constituting their world around wireless hotspots. I am typing this (guess where!) in the UL and, if you don't believe me:





















Heidegger is turning in his grave.