Life of Wiley

No, Louise hasn’t given birth to a football!

Over the last 3 days Euan has been attending a football course at his school and yesterday he received the award for “Best Attitude”. It seems to be his ability to always make people laugh and smile that makes him so lovable.

As a reward I’m taking him to his first football match today, Watford vs. Reading. Despite my loyalties being with Sheffield Wednesday and Louise’s with Wolverhampton Wanderers, we have decided to bring our kids up to support their local team. It’s going to be an interesting season as all three teams are in the same division and Watford have been drawn to play Wolves in the next round of the Carling Cup.

I once made a remark about the hidden books of the bible (merely a fluke); it kept people looking so hard for the facts, and for others it was a revelation. Some were in a jam, especially since the names of the books were not capitalised. But now the truth finally struck home to the numbers of readers. To others it was a real job. We want it to be a most fascinating few moments for you. Yes, there will be some difficult ones to spot, others may require judges to help them. I will quickly admit it usually takes a Minister to find one of them. There will be loud lamentations when it is found. A little lady I know, she brews a cup of tea so she can concentrate better. See how well you can compete. Relax now, for there really are sixteen names of the bible hidden in this paragraph. One Preacher found fifteen books in twenty minutes, but it took him three weeks to find the sixteenth one!

Now you’ve read it, can you find sixteen books of the bible hidden in the above paragraph? Some are easy, others not so. You need to run some words into their neighbours. This is from the newsletter of a Church at Doué la Fontaine, not far from us. An English Vicar left the Church of England when women (of all things!) were allowed into the priesthood, and runs the Church there as a Roman Catholic. None of which really matters! Enjoy the puzzle!

[I got this from my Uncle who lives in France via a mutual friend in Sheffield. It took me 8 minutes to get all 16.]

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted on here.

One reason for this was because I’d been working on a web project for a neighbour. She creates thread art using a technique known as thread painting and wanted a website to show off her skills and sell some of her work. To cut what could potentially be a long story short, here’s a the finished website. It’s been based around the Coppermine photogallery software with some hacks to add in the Paypal shopping cart and the Javascript based frames. (One day I’ll get round to submitting the Paypal code back to the Coppermine people.)

I’m also working on new designs for Watford Band’s website and our own website. You can see these at:

• wileysworld.org/~greg/band/ (I think the fancy style is what I’ll settle on), and
• wileysworld.org/~greg/wileysworld/

I’ve been getting quite into web design and programming recently, much to the chagrin of my wife, Louise, hence the increase in CSS and web design links in my del.icio.us listing.

I’ve got a couple of ideas (well it’s one idea with two applications) for using Google maps to the benefit of the Brass Band movement and the Methodist Church. Just got to get these pesky websites finished first!