The BBC continues its irritating habit of reporting events before they happen - budget statements, for example, or speeches - by describing in advance Cardinal Murphy O’Connor’s Christmas Midnight Mass address.
Cardinal M O’C is going to ‘query’ the cost of the war in Iraq. According to the BBC the cardinal will continue the Catholic Church’s historic tradition of appeasing fascism by saying:
cat/jess1Geoff Hutchinson has produced a WP plugin for gallery images. Useful.
I’ve made a change to the plugin.
I think there was a small typo in the function wpgallery_link. The original function was:
function wpgallery_link($album, $photo, $link_class=’gallery-link’, $image_class=’gallery-image’, $img_alt=’’, $link_title=’’) {
and I amended this to
The BBC is reporting that hundreds of Sikh protestors have demonstrated against a play and five police officers were hurt.
Apparently, the play - Behzti (Dishonour), by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti - depicts murder and sexual abuse and some people have objected because of the setting, a gudwara (a Sikh temple). The author of the play says she has been threatened.
The response of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham has been disappointing. He says,
Recently the New Scientist published a letter from Tracey Hemingway-Wright that ridiculed a belief in God:
His article has shown me that even if there is a limit to what science can explain, there is no scientific bandwagon too high for these lunatics to jump onto to justify their lame-brained notions of sky fairies
I’ve been using Thunderbird as my mail client for some time and I’ve just downloaded version 1.0 to try out its RSS support. Imagine my suprise when I discovered that it doesn’t support OPML (Wikipedia OPML).
