Travelling around you always notice some differences markedly. “How do you know where to go without any signs on the road?” my friend Richard asked our driver on the way to Abuja airport. The answer was that he’s lived around Abuja and travelled the road a lot so he’s seen it change and has been …
Is the Desktop metaphor dead? The linked article suggests that touchy-feely tablets and phones are starting to sweep the desktop metaphor away. That’s certainly happening in part, but my own perspective is that in some parts of the world it’s never really been alive or helpful. The point of the desktop metaphor, popularised by Apple and …
Yesterday we had naming of parts. Today, We have daily cleaning. Today is Sanitation Saturday. That means that everyone has to stay at home until 10am and clean their houses and the area around them. And, yes, it is enforced by the Sanitation Police! I’m not sure how much sanitation we will actually do, but …
Having to install dongles on lots of computers is a bit of a pain and this one from Huawei seems to fill a need many in Nigeria might have. Huawei E355 3G and Wi-Fi USB Internet Modem Dongle – White I’ve had a mobile hotspot with a battery inside but I can see there may …
An excellent Melvyn Bragg film about William Tyndale expresses eloquently why people all over the world need access to the Bible in their mother tongue and gives an insight into the dramatic changes it can bring. It was on iPlayer in June 2013 and hopefully will be again. Well worth watching. We found it inspiring …
The establishment of the C of S has proclaimed the creation of a new ‘network of evangelicals’ who seem to be committed to remaining yoked to the denomination no matter what. This seems to be seizing the initiative from Forward Together which has struggled and stalled over the years to reconcile people/congregations who were evangelical …
As we’ve talked about our work in Nigeria, several have asked about the language(s) I work with. One quick way to find out some basic information about any language in the world is to look it up on the SIL Ethnologue. So roughly in order of more – less involvement on my part here are a …
A nice piece of spam to info@ngbible.com today reads: “Hi, Would you like people who are looking for ngbible.com to find you before all of your competitors? please click here Sincerely, top-ranks-seo.com” Well if only there was more competition to promote mother-tongue scriptures in Nigeria! I don’t really care if people find ngbible.com first, but …
Well done Daily Record: “In fact, the Church voted in favour of a last-minute option brought to the table by a former Church irk moderator, the Very Reverend Albert Bogle.” Not quite sure what it was trying to say, but it’s fitting. (There’s been much more irking than moderation, though.)
Here are a couple of great videos. Dineke and Klaas from the Netherlands explain a bit about what it’s like to move to a completely new place and adjust to life, language and culture there. This is Asia and many things are different to our Nigerian context, but many aspects are the same.