Up until last week, I was a member of i-church's Council - a group of volunteers that had been responsible for leading the church since its last Web Pastor stood down last summer.

i-church is ultimately owned by the Anglican Diocese of Oxford, who have recently asserted their authority over the community in no uncertain terms, and who really pushed me to want to leave.

It took us ages to move servers in the end, what with work and life doing their level best to get in the way. But we're back now, and both making personal promises to write more, and more often.

Abi's sock monster business is growing, and she's just had a successful day with a stall at the Sheffield Green Fair. She almost bought a coffee shop recently, but after a lot of business planning decided it wasn't a strong enough proposition. Rather than waste all the entrepreneurial advice she got, however, she's getting involved with the City of Sanctuary Cafe project in town.

Hmmm... after reading With friends like these ... I think I'll look around nervously and sneak out of the Facebook community.

I find the reaction to Sony's PS3 Game, Resistance: Fall of Man really interesting. The game reportedly depicts a bloody shoot-out inside Manchester Cathedral - something which church leaders have described as "desecration".

The following letter of complaint to Ofcom was written by our friend Josie Wexler and is published here with her kind permission. It raises a plethora of objections to Channel 4's 8th March 2007 screening of The Great Global Warming Swindle by documentary-maker Martin Durkin.

I found it depressing watching. I hope Ofcom takes action against Channel 4 over this, for the reasons Josie articulates so well. However, I suspect the screening has already done its damage: it is now being cited triumphantly on the blogs of those in climate-change denial.

It's been a while since I've danced. But yesterday's Guardian interview with Tim van Eyken reminds me of what I've been neglecting.

I do try really hard not to get "religious" about Free Software. Afterall, everybody has their own motivations and requirements with computing, and I'd no more insist you use a particular set of software than I would tell you what clothes to wear. However, where computer software is used in education, I am more concerned.

From my viewpoint, proprietory software tends to limit choice: there are strong commercial incentives for proprietory software vendors to "lock their customers in" to only using their software. Microsoft are perhaps the most obvious example of this. But "lock-in" gets ugly when it happens in an educational setting. If schools feel they have few or no software choices, how can they provide an open-minded education in information technology to our children? Small wonder that software vendors always slash their prices for educational establishments. These discounts unmask the growing tendancy for IT and digital arts education to unwittingly become government-subsidised marketing initiatives for proprietory software.

Just uploaded this first draft of our first proper "flet" template - the first bit of beyond-the-norm design I've done for some months now - and am quietly pleased with myself.

I've used this as an excuse to get my head around web typography at last. I've always liked the beautifully typeset output I get from LaTeX and now understand how to at least echo this in a web page.

I've also re-evaluated perhaps 20 alternative ways of achieving a table-less 3 column layout with CSS and settled on what I think will become my firm favourite. I've not quite finished with the layout yet though, as there are one or two things I've not implemented. I need to get the header area flush with the page, and I'd like the whole lot to be centred in the page with browser windows over 1200px. Heck, I might even give the new Switchy McLayout a go for the small-screen end of the market.

The licensing requirements for Windows Vista seem to me to be quite awkward for web and software developers on a budget - particularly for those who don't actually want to run the operating system as their development platform.

As with XP, the OEM license for Vista (which is the relatively affordable type you buy with a new PC, or from a PC wholesaler) will only allow one transfer of the license from one machine to another. Perhaps this isn't too bad if you use Vista as your main Operating System.

But the only Vista licenses which will entitle you to run Vista under virtualisation (running Windows as a "guest operating system" on Linux, for example), are the Business or Ultimate versions. What about multiple installations, or re-installation? Does the OEM license regard these as the same as a transfer? Under virtualisation, the guest operating may get installed afresh several times. It's also useful to be able to run several instances of the same operating system at once.