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I’m off to London today, then to Northampton and other destinations before ending up at the New Monasticism conference in Coventry on Saturday - that means dont expect to hear much from me over the next few days, not that you have over the last few 
There are a couple of interesting questions I’ve been pondering arising out of blogland, one where Lee Proudlove aka Anselmic asked if cattle farts are really an appropriate topic for a high profile Easter message… I entered into that one in perhaps a little too verbose manner, and may have bored Lee into silence: sorry Lee. Good stuff though, lets talk more about cattle farts, and why people SHOULD EAT LESS MEAT!
Then I followed a link from Hamo’s blog to a question this morning: is it possible to follow Jesus and believe in evolution. Which is a good question actually as it opens so many theological discussion points. Plenty of comments coming along there, so that’s something to keep an eye on. Of course that goes back to the whole dawn of creation, when people DIDN’T EAT MEAT!
Gosh, I never even realised those two were linked until now…
during a meeting the other day, my computer died. It was slightly awkward, given that it was a contemplative meeting, and my computer was being used to project images, and play music… however the good people at HP have solved the problem by supplying a required part, for free and for nowt. So, apologies for general quietness, it has been due to computer knackeredness.
You have been spared more stuff on Castro, some waffle about Obama, a recipe for Yoghurt, and a recomendation for some excellent ambient music, as well as the usual inane drivel. Lucky really.
So this weekend I had the delight of celebrating my old pal Kyb’s 30th, and meeting his wife and some of his other friends.
We had a great time, it was good to see the old boy again, although he is looking pretty old and wizened, its all that city living
Anyhow, I was kind of intrigued by the job title of Roo Reynolds, one of Kyb’s other friends, he works for IBM as a ‘Metaverse Evangelist’. I dont think I have knowingly met a metaverse evangelist before, so it was quite a thrill… well you know.
Anyhow, Roo’s site is worth a poke around, although his extraordinary collection of lego leaves me a little worried. At the party I almost got drawn into a potentially troublesome discussion on the nature of consumption and the importance of efficiency, but felt that it might ruin the mood, besides there was really nice cake to eat.
Anyhow, the whole metaverse thing got me interested. I first came across the notion of a metaverse in Neal Stephenson’s novel ‘Snow Crash‘ which was one of the many pieces of Cyberpunk literature that I devoured during my student days. Stephenson and his more famous counterpart William Gibson formed an important part of my higher education, and informed some of my later writings. Notably of course Gibson is credited with the invention of the notion of cyberspace, which is considerably better known than metaverse.
The Metaverse is easiest to understand as a virtual world, in which you can act and interact with others, the kind of thing that is manifested in stuff like second life. I dont use any kind of metaverse myself, unless you can count what I’m doing now, which I dont think you can strictly. Metaverses require avatars… so perhaps this is a metaverse then. I dunno, but it sure aint cyberpunk!
So there we are, a good ten years or more since I first studied metaverses, I meet a metaverse evangelist. Interesting. Evangelist is often synonymous with missionary…
I am delighted to see that Keith Smith now has internet access in his mud house, he doesnt yet have running water, but after four years of doing without both water and power, he can now write emails, surf the web, and crucially blog - from his home in Burkina Faso!
Of course this development while on the one hand welcome, has led the good mr Smith to consider - ’should I now be moving to somewhere more remote?’
Happy new year to anyone who reads this blog, which includes a number of people who I know, and some who I dont, who find themselves here after having searched for an eclectic selection of phrases…
sorry its been a bit quiet over the last couple of weeks, I was away all Christmas, and I’m in the thick of organising a conference which is on this weekend. I’ve hardly put pen to paper or finger to keyboard in the name of writing for a fortnight, which is kind of depressing, lets hope that will change this month.
My other commitments for the year? To make progress on some writing projects I have on the go, to take the organic cotton project forward significantly (watch this space for more news) and to take part in (but perhaps not win) the Llanelli 10K race - yeeks.
having not posted anything for about a month, during which time EVEN kybernetikos (not loving the colour scheme) has posted a number of interesting articles, I am now beginning to feel at last fully purged of blogging.
I’ve suffered a little from lack of inspiration, as well as too much else to do, but I can now forsee another torrent heading your way, so get ready to hit ‘mark all as read’ on your feed readers
its a time consuming business this blogging lark - and when I thought about it, I realised the old place needed a new coat of paint - so it has had the undercoat, and part of the main coat… still needs tidying up here and there of course.
It’s a bit of a pain working within the constraints of the wordpress templates, however it does allow me to be lazy and not to have to muck around doing complicated things, so I put up with petty niggles.
Might even get round to posting something interesting soon… you never know
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