Jon Jolly

Glubble is a great plugin for the Firefox web browser that gives totally FREE parental controls! There are essentially two criteria for using it:

you must use Firefox for web browsing
you must have children that use the internet

Aimed at primary aged children, Glubble changes the look of the browser to a simple kid-friendly interface when they [...]

There’s been a lot of activity recently in people mapping data from the Bible into visual representations.

Chris Harrison took the King James Version and produced some beautiful images based on the connections between the passages, before developing a social network representation and distribution of people and places like the image below.

The background is the entire [...]

I’ve had a lot of problems with Spam on this blog recently due to some changes with plug-ins. For some reason or other my hosting server can’t contact to Akismet so I’m trying out some other options which ultimately seem less than good! Anyone got some helpful suggestions?
What all this means for you, dear reader, [...]

I was reading Dave Johnson’s post about what rss feeds he subscribes to and it got me thinking it would be good to recommend a few of the blogs that I read too.
I subscribe to hundreds of different feeds from around the web ranging from youth ministry and human interest through to technology and research. [...]

Just before we went on holiday, Kirsty and I took advantage of an Apple Back-to-school promotion and bought a Macbook for her and a new iPod Nano for me. Then while on holiday, I picked up one of those Nike+ for iPod sensors in the hope that I might actually use it to start getting [...]

Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows was released on download earlier this week to great anticipation from fans. Their first release since 2003, In Rainbows is only available directly from the Radiohead website, but in a ground-breaking move, fans get to choose how much they pay for the music - anything from the 45p processing fee [...]

There seems to be a bit of a debate raging in the US over the use of Halo 3 in Youth Ministry spurred by an article in the New York Times called Thou Shalt Not Kill, Except in a Popular Video Game at Church.
The alliance of popular culture and evangelism is challenging churches much as [...]

On Friday we spent a fantastic evening at the Parish Church of St. Stephen Walbrook (home of the London Internet Church) for the first ever Christian Blog and Web Awards!
The whole event was really well organised with an amazing four-course meal and a great string-quartet providing a touch of class to the proceedings. Thanks [...]

Later today, Kirsty and I are off to the Christian Web and Blog Awards ceremony in London. I mentioned back here that this blog had gone through to the final rounds and we’ve now been invited to go along to the event tonight and see if I’ve won anything! It’s a black tie affair and [...]

Along with the new iPods announced last week was the news that Apple were going into partnership with Starbucks to allow customers of the coffee chain free access to the iTunes WiFi Store to purchase music. There have been rumours of a collaboration for some time. I even posted about it back in January.
Unfortunately [...]