Kristy:

“Either I just felt the baby move, or my uterus did a somersault… and I don’t think that happens. “

It’s week 16, so we clearly have a very advanced child.

Whoever coined the term ‘morning sickness’ for that which affects pregnant women had a sample size that was far too small.

There’s nothing particularly ‘morning’ about it.

[NB: 'Spotlight' here refers to a segment we run at church, and has nothing to do with a certain Apple search technology.]

This youtube clip was a bit of a challenge to how thankful we are in prayer, as well as a kick to get up and do something.

[NB: 'Spotlight' here refers to a segment we run at church, and has nothing to do with a certain Apple search technology.]

The 10-40 window is a term used by certain people involved in Christian mission, referring to the belt of countries lying between 10° and 40° North of the equator, stretching over Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

About two thirds of the world’s population live in the 10-40 window. Of the poorest people in the world (late 1980′s data: GNP below US$500), 82% are in this window.

Mission organisations reckon about 95% of those living in this part of the world have no significant connection to Christians, yet only about 10% of world-wide mission resources find their way to these countries.

There are, of course, significant exceptions to the above statistics, but as a generalisation these are sobering statistics.

What can we do?

Pray. Go to Operation World and get data on these places, and ask God for his mercy.

Give. Support mission agencies, give to your local church’s mission fund.

Go. Contact a mission organisation and go on a short term mission, take a holiday and check places out, find out what it’s like.

One of the things that has bugged me for a while about Safari’s built in search box has been the inability to alter the default search engine.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of Google, but often I want to search for things in Australia only. http://www.google.com.au/ is great for this, as it gives the option to search the entire web, or pages in Australian domains only. Excellent.

In order to do this effectively, however, I’ve had to navigate manually to the Australian Google site, then search… a minor inconvenience, granted, but one that takes longer than a simple search in the top right.

A minor inconvenience, that is, until now.

Allow me to introduce AcidSearch: a plugin that modifies the search box. You can set up default search engines, custom search paths (e.g. you can easily search for “Kill Bill” on imdb.com), and switch easily between them. It’s gold, it’s free, I like it better than Inquisitor.

Excellent.