An accidental blog

"If God is sovereign, then his lordship must extend over all of life, and it cannot be restricted to the walls of the church or within the Christian orbit." Abraham Kuyper Common Grace 1.1.

Wednesday 31 January 2007

A few links

There is a fascinating conference on 'Karl Barth and American Evangelicals: Friends or Foes?' 24-27 June. Details here [HT Generous Orthodoxy ThinkTank]. Speakers include D G Hart and George Harinck, Michael Horton, John Franke and Kevin Hector. Topics include Barth and ... Van Til, emergent, radical orthodoxy, neo-anabaptism ....

Lifehack has 26 tips to keep your computer up and functioning - this is rather close to my heart as my computer malfunctioned over Christmas and the New Year, I had to reformat it and lost a lot of information.

To Snap or not to snap?
I've been using snap for a few weeks now - and becoming increasingly frustrated with it. So too have a number of other bloggers: here and here. There is also a poll here [HT Bill Kinnon What do others think?

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2 comments:

Baus said...

I don't know what these people are talking about when they say "takes up too much bandwidth". Really, what are they talking about?

Anyway... I installed snap on my blog because I liked using it on other people's blogs. I use it exactly as it was designed, I think... to preview the site linked and see if it looks (rather than just "sounds") worth visiting. These anti-snap-pers complain that the windows are too small to get an idea what the site is like. I say they need glasses.

The anti-snap-pers also complained that they constantly hover over a link by accident, and then the snap window blocks what they were reading. Well, I don't have a good solution for their lack of mouse control... but when they loose control and accidentally hover, all that is required is to move the pointer half a mm off the link, and the snap preview window disappears!

I don't know. Unless I get a bunch of complaints... I'm keeping my snap.

stevebishop said...

Hi gregory,

Thanks for your comments. What I find frustrating about it is that when I right click, with the intention of opening the site in a new tab, Snap does sometimes get in the way.



Cheers,
Steve