Dissertation from 2002

I just uploaded my dissertation. Not because I thought it was that good, or because I think people who read my blog will be interested in it. I have to continue wrtiting stuff as part of my probation studies, and I needed to reference its location in the bibliography. In my latest essay I reffered to it, mainly because I didn't have the space, or the inclination to cover old ground. By posting about it here I hope that the search engine bots will pick up on it and index it, then anyone who does have a slight interest in Walter Bruggemann, Covenant, Rhetoric, Social Power and Community might find it.

Funny Cartoon.

Well, I thought it was funny anyway. Thanks to the Customer Evangelists blog

Isaac and Daddy Start a Project

I have started a project with Isaac (5). The plan is to spend two hours a week with him during term time, on a Tuesday after he has finished school. We are building a solar powered lighting system for his bedroom. I hope that he is going to learn a little about the basics of electronics through doing it. You can listen to Isaac talking about it here. As you will hear, he has a little way to go before he completly understands it! http://graham.doel.org/mp3/

Hutchinson 3g have their head in the sand!

I have had the most unbelievable exchange of e.mails this weekend, read on: >-----Original Message----- >From: My3@three.co.uk [mailto:My3@three.co.uk] >Sent: 31 March 2005 07:39 >To: customer.services@3mail.com >Subject: My 3 Miscellaneous enquiry, PartyId 48838485, Msisdn 07888733975, > >From Graham Doel > >When I visit the My alerts section of the my3 website there is no style and >the add alerts section does not appear to function. >Thank you >Graham Doel Contact Centre wrote: >Dear Mr Doel, > >Thank you for your e-mail. > >If this problem continues, it may be a fault with the handset itself. In >this case, please contact our customer services number to book the handset >into a repair centre. The repair centre will endeavour to pick-up the >handset by courier, find and fix the fault, and return the handset back to >you within 3 working days. Alternatively, if you are trying to add/take >away alerts you can contact us either via e-mail or by once again contacting >our customer services on the number below or 333 from your handset. > >I hope this is of hell and clarifies matters for you. Thank you for >contacting 3. -----Original Message----- From: Graham Doel Sent: 31 March 2005 14:00 To: Contact Centre Subject: Re: 3 response~ Hi, Thanks for your reply. I was, however using the website on my PC, not on my handset. All other areas of the site displayed the style correctly but the alerts section. It looks like a web design error to me. Thanks again Graham -----Original Message----- From: Graham Doel [mailto:Graham@1stmorecambe.net] Sent: 01 April 2005 15:28 To: Contact Centre Subject: Re: 3 response~ Hi, Thanks for replying. > Dear Mr Dole, It's usually spelt Doel, but I'm quite used to people getting it wrong ;) > Thank you for your quick reply. I apologise for the misunderstanding as to which equipment you were accessing the alerts. This problem I have not come across both personally, or with other customers. As far as I can make out it is not an error at our end. May I ask if you are using any firewall/anti-virus/pop-up blocking software? Are using the most up to date version of Internet Explorer with 128 bit cipher strength? Are you using Windows-based software, or any other Operating System software to access our website? I see. I am using Firefox. It runs faster and is generally more compliant with industry standards than I.E.. Unfortunately some people choose to target their sites at a specific browser. May I ask if you have any plans to make your site compatible with any browser, or are you intending staying I.E. specific. Thank you for your help, I will use I.E. next time I use the site. Thanks Graham Doel Hi Mr Doel, I apologise for the incorrect spelling, unfortunately it was a Friday afternoon J. Firefox is a program, I am sorry to say, I have never heard of but shall look into purely for knowledge – keep the old grey matter oiled. Unfortunately, IE is the only supporting browser and as far as I know there are no plans for future developments with regards to other browsers. I will however, put forward some feedback regarding the usage of other browsers, such as Firefox. Good luck using IE, and thanks once again for contacting 3. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: 3 response~ Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:09:49 +0100 From: Graham Doel Organization: Stanley Road Baptist Church To: Contact Centre References: <316A24323A64B24BACB7DEA440276E939BAF2D@W104CS009V01.corpuk.net> Hi, Thanks for your reply. > I apologise for the incorrect spelling, unfortunately it was a Friday afternoon J. No worries. > Firefox is a program, I am sorry to say, I have never heard of but shall look into purely for knowledge – keep the old grey matter oiled. Goodness. Where have you been! Here are a couple of links to help you with your research: http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=firefox&num=30&hl=en&lr=&safe=active&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=nn&oi=newsr http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ It is unfortunate that you only support I.E.. Perhaps you could urge your website development team to take the current trends in web browsing seriously. Thanks again Graham Doel.