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Today, a bill to legalise assisted dying / assisted suicide comes before the House of Commons for its second reading. When an identical bill was introduced in the previous session of parliament, the House of Lords ran out of time to pass it. They got the blame for its failure. Please don't blame them. They're not the ones who sank it.
KWGT is a very useful app for Android for those who like such things. It lets you design your own homescreen widgets. The designer tool takes a little bit of time to learn your way around, but it is very versatile once you get the hang of it. A pro licence is a one-off fee of £4.99, but honestly you can do so much without pro that most people won't need it. All you can't do is import widgets from an external save-file, which means you can’t import widgets you download from the web.
For many years, I have used backup software made called Retrospect Backup.
As an aside, backing up your computer files is very important. These days we store many things on computers – important documents, irreplaceable photographs, emails, software licences, and so on. The originals are increasingly in the cloud somewhere, but not always. You should always have a strategy for what to do if your laptop hard drive dies, you are infected with some ransomware that locks you out of your files, or whatever it is.
I recently wrote about my experiences migrating this website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10. In that post I said that I would write separately about my experiences theming the site. This is that post.
I was broadly happy with the look and feel of the Drupal 7 version of the site, so didn't want something vastly different. At the sametime, I wanted to make sure that I was using the most maintainable underlying code, behind what end-users see.
Here is CS Lewis, talking about why it is that people like to undermine St Paul whilst maintaining that they follow Christ.
Are you trying to find out which Church of England Parish you live in? Simply visit the link below and put your postcode into the search tool. Note, they've changed their website. You now have to wait after entering your postcode, and select one of the autocomplete entries served by Google maps; only then can you click the arrow button to begin your search. https://www.achurchnearyou.com/
Well, as I grew up, it was the era when the sitcom Friends was the thing to watch. For those of you who haven't met it, which is probably not very many of you, the setting for this particular sitcom was six young adults in their mid-twenties, trying to navigate the joys and the distresses of life in New York — frequently those distresses caused by their own… Read more
We live in a culture that values things that are instant. Perhaps it's the appeal of instant credit — you seem to be buying a pizza, would you like to pay for this in three instalments, and with one click you can say yes, and you've just opened up another line of credit for yourself. Or instant messaging — a way to keep in touch, share photographs and text messages with people… Read more
We live in a world that loves money. I think that’s fairly self-evident, but here is one little illustration of that. Consider this phrase, and what someone is most likely to mean when it’s used: “John is better off than other people.” What do we mean by that? It probably refers to the fact that John has more money than other people. Or if we describe somebody as not quite so… Read more
I love my coffee! Here you can see what I'm drinking at the moment
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