A world on a downward spiral

Just read a review of the following book:

Author: Mike Davis
Title: "Planet of Slums. Squatter Town - The South's urban explosion"

Seems like a fascinating read. If you understand swedish check out the article on:

Dagens Nyheter

Wrong turn

The other day as I was driving from the beach, having met up with some friends, to my church for a board meeting I experienced something that left me speachless just about the rest of the eavning. About half way there is a big roundabout where I have to take the third exit i.e. a left turn. Now, as I came up to the roundabout there was a car in front that indicated to the left. He stopped, so as to check that the coast was clear and then he proceeded to turn left (sic) in the roundabout and headed the wrong way around. I took the roundabout in the correct direction and met him half way around. As I met him I got a good glance at a 50 year old bald man who didn't actually look too lost.

What is your most bizarre motoring experience? I'd love to hear som good stories!

Law and Order

As this may not be world wide front page news I may as well give some short background:
In the middle of last week the Swedish police made a raid on a torrent-server called The Pirate Bay. The police took a bunch of servers thus putting The Pirate Bay out of action, and also crippling a number of other companies with websites on those particular servers. Probably as a kind of retaliation computer users around Sweden caused a number of official websites to drown under accessability-pressure, among others the police and the government. This they haven't been too happy about.

Now, here's my question. Should cyberspace really work under national laws? In a way this cyber-protest was not all that much different from that of french farmers blocking roads with tomatoes or apples, only in this case it was band width and not physical roads. As the internet has developed much without the control of national legislation (yes, I am aware of CERN and US military), why should governments act now when cyber space somehow is beyond territorial limits.

DaVinci Code

Just got home from watching The DaVinci Code.
I have to admit that although it displayed quite a bit of poor historical research it turned out to be a piece of pretty good entertainment! It moved on not unlike National Treasure with N. Cage. Now neither National Treasure or The DaVinci Code can be taken as examples of good detective stories unfolding like Commisioner Morse or other Brit. investigative series'. Factually it is hard to understand that the book or the movie were to pose any threat to Christianity, the simplest of research demonstrates difficulties in it's ideas. If one must talk of threats (as many Christians do en regards to the film), perhaps the threat lies not in it's ideas but rather in the response of the uncritical masses that fill cinemas and devour fiction novels? Fine, believe what you want to believe, but whatever happend to good old critical thinking?
The DaVinci Code is good entertainment. But, for heaven's sake, enjoy it - as entertainment!

A bit of a challenge...

Was at my small group tonight. As we were sharing with each other about our time with God it quickly became apparent that all of us needed some kind of incentive to regularly read our Bibles and pray. So we came up with this idea of everyone reading 2 chapters of the Bible each day. Is there anyone else out there that might want to join?