Disclaimer: This post is a shameless plug for a website I am heavily involved in! Now we've got that out of the way, please read on... b2boutique.co.uk is a website set up by my wife Kirsty to sell baby carriers such as slings and wraps. As Kirsty says, sometimes a buggy or pram is too bulky and inconvenient. There are hundreds of situations where a baby carrier becomes invaluable! From the site: Anyone who’s shopped around will know ...

Wow! What a crazy few days. I've been suffering from a nasty head cold while struggling to get this blog up and running again. It was the website equivalent of pounding it with a defibrillator, willing it to stay alive. I'm pleased to say that the operation was successful and it looks like the patient will make a full recovery. The ...

OK, so the blog is broken. All that spam has caused my hosting company to suspend the account, meaning I can’t access it via ftp. In the meantime, I’ve moved hosts and set-up the blog again. I’m just waiting to import the past 4 years of posts to get it all back to normal! Currently, this is the only post on the entire blog! Strange huh? I hope to get everything back to its usual state by Monday, but for now please be patient. ...

Dear God is a website where people send in their 'prayers' to be posted on the site. Similar to the creative confessional Postsecret, the site allows people to express their emotions and sentiments to whatever higher power they believe in. It doesn't matter what your version of God is... Jesus, Allah, Buddha or simply a spiritual universal energy... praying to a higher power soothes and heals. It's scientifically proven that people who pray are ...

Just a quick post to apologise to those who've tried to email me over the past week. Apparently my mail account was deleted on my domain and everything was getting bounced back to senders. I've no idea what fantastic messages I missed, so feel free to resend anything interesting. ;) Things are back to normal now. ...

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 must go to Maria for putting it all together and hosting us so well. I posted before about being entered for an award and I ...

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 I was amused to discover that we'll be having a time of worship after the champagne reception. I've held off from posting too much about this before as I'm really not sure ...

A few weeks back I got a comment on this post about the Christian Blog Awards encouraging me to enter. Now not knowing much about the awards, I went to the website and followed the instructions half expecting to discover a scam! Then yesterday, I got an email saying: Congratulations! Your blog has gone through to the last judging stage of the Christian Web and Blog Awards. To be honest I'm a bit stunned as there are some really excellent ...

This Yahoo! service has been around for a little while now, but I've only just started to get to grips with it. It's basically a powerful tool for getting the information you want brought to you from around the web. If you get bored with technical stuff, read no further... For the rest of you, Pipes is a great way to mashup RSS feeds (you know, the bit that broadcasts your content across the web everytime you update your site). From Yahoo!: Pipes ...

It's been a bit quiet on this blog of late and I've got a lot of thoughts to post at some point. I've been here for the last 24 hours along with Sim, Billy and Brian among others (who have already posted the highlights). In the meantime, enjoy this great phone call: Ht: Billy ...