recently

heard an awesome quote, that i whole heartedly agree with.

“your beliefs and convictions are only as meaningful as your behaviors and actions”

yum homemade sweet chilli!

on sunday we went to the vege markets and bought heaps and heaps of chillies. then couple of days ago blended them up into some awesome chilli sauce. its quite yum.

i didnt really follow a recipe, although i did consult one first for some ideas.

basically if you wanna make something awesome, just do it to your tastes. This is about what i can remember for next time:

• couple thumbs of ginger and galangal
• bulb or so of garlic
• as many chilies as i had (20ish 2-3 inch ones)

blend all that up and add:

• half a cup of raw sugar
• bit of water
• sprinkle of rock salt

and cook untill boiling, then reduce to simmer for 5 mins or so. then add:

• 100mls of cider vinegar
• 50mls dark soy
• about half a blended kaffir lime (no rind)

cook a touch more i guess and vola! jar while hot.

maby next time i might try some lemon grass and some of the kaffir lime leaves.

Catholics vs Protestants

ed and i were discussing this topic. and we didnt really know much. I found this list which shines a little light:

also this sentence:

Anglicanism is characterized by a via media (middle way) between Catholicism and Protestantism. Anglicans are not subject to the Pope and are Protestant in most areas of doctrine, but Anglicans also retain many Catholic forms of worship, including a hierarchy based on bishops (which is the meaning of the world “episcopalian”).

this list is a little more comprehensive.

and here is a very nice post, which you totally should read.

ps. if your still up for reading, here is the babel thing.

helooooooooo

so i hurt my foot at the gym. its quite suck. its been a few days and the lovely people around me have not stopped badgering me to goto the hospital or something. so caroll is going to take me now.

other than that, our new project will be up in the next week or so. www.t3ad.com <– at the moment its pointing straight to tead, hopefully this weekend we will be changing over.

ps. so so so close to pics for you ninass.

[UPDATE::] ok so got some x-rays, totally blew the whole mornings work tho having to wait at the hospital. did get some good physics lectures listened to tho.

[UPDATE2] oh yer it fine, they said to just rest etc. got a nice strap thing tho.

oh today

while deliberating on what to do today, i happened to run into two amusing news stories, so if your bored here and here will use some of your time.

gym tonight, exciting, although im still a little sore from running last night, planning to make some videos soon, which too will be exciting. I might wait a few weeks and then do a whole bunch. As well as the house tour ones for nina, which i keep forgetting about.

anyways, i really should do some work..

had something more awesome

but have been busy today. again. work is awesome. yay.

side note: man russians own the internet.

listening to:  Pillar of Davidson - Throwing Coper - Live

TIP: symfony, svn and the cache

I was planning self reminder notes about my journey with Symfony. So here is the first:

after a svn checkout (for the first time) (which is before you exclude the cache and log files (sudo svn propedit svn:ignore log) you have to change the permission’s on the cache else you get an error. So if you happen to see:

[sfCacheException]
Unable to write cache file “/var/www/myproject/cache/frontend/dev/config/config_config_handlers.yml.php”

you need to do this: chmod -Rf 777 cache log

how is a perfect God revealed?

well, we can look to the mysteries of the stars, we can look down to the mysteries of quantum physics and subatomic particles, but the big question is: how does he demonstrate perfect love?

this almost came up in a talk at my house the other day. it was leading to and ended up around Galations 2:21 “I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.” We were talking about salvation at that point and it got me thinking a little.

God cannot learn right, he knows everything. So when he gave us free will, he knew man would sin and thus become separate from him. All in all putting himself in a predicament that nothing less than God taking form as a man, dieing and rasing again could fix.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. John 15:13

I guess that is the nature of perfect love eh. us screwing up and God paying for it.

Mangosteen

its weird. one you get a post written… all be it finally, they just start to flow.

New life goal: Eat a Mangosteen.

I do suppose I have been very busy writing codes and have not had a chance, or at least given myself a chance, to read the internets. but as soon as you do, gosh, there is some amazing things to learn out there. for example, how long have we talked about this, only to find a clear example in seconds upon looking.

secondly, we have just signed the contract for this web app, providing me work for months and months literally. (and by we, i mean i watched grg and caroll sign (but i was there!!)) very cool. so work is officially commenced. so exciting!!
definitely time for a cup of tea.

ok so i am slack

sorry ed, was planning to write about this and make some point etc but never got around to it. been well, ya know, not doing it. so this is basically a quote from what i read. hope it’s not too out of context being ripped right out of a chapter. it reminded me of the punishment discussion we had/have.

….the victim ploy (aka i am the result of my circumstances, society… my genes etc..) can be attractive because it frees us from having to admit to wrongdoing. yet it is in admitting guilt that we find our true dignity, for doing so affirms the moral dimension of human nature. for centuries western law codes and social morality were based on a huge regard for individual responsibility. it was understood that human beings were moral agents capable of distinguishing right from wrong and are therefore accountable for their actions.

of course, acknowledging responsibility means attributing real praise and blame, in turn imply’s the legitimacy of punishment. thats what makes moral accountability so bittersweet. yet punishment actually expresses a high view of the human being. if a person who breaks the law is merely a dysfunctional victim of circumstances, then the remedy is not justice but therapy; and the law breaker is not a person with rights but a patient to be cured.

to be punished is to be treated as a human in Gods image.