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Today I found out that I passed the second paper in my Securities Institute Certificate, so assuming the FSA agree to the request my approval will be upgraded and I’ll be able to start trading.

Today I sat the second of my regulatory exams, on securities and financial derivatives. The results will come through on Thursday, but I’m being cautious about whether I passed or not at the moment as having a cold over the weekend didn’t exactly help me study effectively. Tomorrow might be a bit of a shock to the system as I switch back to getting up at 6am.

Interesting to see that The Register’s ad hosting company was serving up ads containing a virus that could infect Internet Explorer — just browsing a popular news website could, through no fault of theirs, result in your PC being infected! Sounds like yet another reason to follow CERT’s advice and switch to Firefox.

People following the Steve Chalke debate might be interested in reading the statement recently released by the Evangelical Alliance. The statement concludes:

For these reasons, we do not believe that penal substitutionary atonement can be rejected as it is rejected in The Lost Message of Jesus, and as Steve has persisted in rejecting it since. While affirming the many gifts which Steve has to offer, we urge him, as a much-loved brother in Christ, to reconsider both the substance and style of his recently expressed views on this matter.

My brother has taken some pretty good photos, and he’s made it possible to buy prints of a selection of them at photobox. The one on the right is from the Weather Project, one of the large scale installations at the Tate Modern.

About 60% of the people who visit this site use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as their web browser. If you’re one of those people, you might want to have a look at Firefox, a free web browser with better security and features than IE. (Note that it’s free — I’m not trying to sell Firefox, I just think it’s better!) It’s not a big download, and if you’re like most people then once you’ve tried it you won’t want to switch back to Internet Explorer. Two of its best features are tabbed browsing and popup blocking. Have a look at the full list of features and download it if you think it looks good.

I have spent most of this week on my Securities and Financial Derivatives course, with the exam to sit on Tuesday. As the course only started at 9am, I have been enjoying sleeping in a bit in the mornings — it might be a bit of a struggle to return to getting up at 6am again. Yesterday evening Mim & I went to the Friday club prayer meeting. Hopefully the club will be starting up properly early next year, but we need some more volunteers to help before then.

Mim’s looking for work in earnest, signing up to job sites and trawling through the results. If anyone knows of a London charity that has an open part-time fundraising or PR position, please email her.