Archive - September, 2004

The last week

Quite an eventful week, mostly because of changes at work. I have now moved down to the trading desk, where I am spending the next two weeks finishing some stuff for the euro rates desk, before moving to the sterling swaps desk to learn the gilts business. One very nice side effect of moving onto the desk is that the support is so much better: within half an hour of my computer arriving down there, it had twice as much memory and three screens. Next week I should get my second machine, and hopefully another set of three screens to go with it.

On Thursday we went out for dinner with Andrew to celebrate his birthday at the “Texas Embassy”:http://www.texasembassy.com/. He gave me a CD of photos, which include some from our London Eye trip so I’ll post those tomorrow.

Industrial for Firefox

If you’re using “Gnome 2.8″:http://www.gnome.org/ and the “Firefox”:http://getfirefox.com/ web browser then you might like Industrial for Firefox, a new Firefox theme. Note that it looks terrible on Windows though.

Fourth album set

And here’s the fourth set, mostly from between the end of the service and the reception.

As always, if you would like to look at the earlier sets of photos, just go to the “Wedding photos”:archives/category/photos/wedding-photos/ section.

Third album set

Here is the third set of photos from our wedding album, covering all the action inside the church.

Steve Chalke followup

A couple of people have posted comments on the “Lost Message of Jesus review”:http://arotau.com/archives/2004/09/06/review-the-lost-message-of-jesus-by-steve-chalke/ and I think their objections to the review are similar to other viewpoints I’ve heard expressed in other contexts. The two main ideas I want to challenge are the idea that Christian leaders should not attempt to oppose teaching that appears to contradict the Bible; and that the worth of Steve Chalke’s book can be judged by its effect on individual people’s lives. I want to show that the Bible clearly teaches that one the prime responsibilities of Christian leaders is to oppose false teaching (especially false teaching about the cross); and that no matter what positive effect Chalke’s teaching has it must be opposed.

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