http://baptism.co.nz All that's new with baptism.co.nz, whether grammarian, sermons, Halliday news or anything else en-us http://baptism.co.nz/baptismbutton2.gif http://baptism.co.nz 110 49 http://baptism.co.nz/gram27.html The name of books, my name, the reasons for other things. What more could you ask? More frequent updates, that's for sure. http://halliday.co.nz/dvd.html A list of all the DVD titles owned by the family. An eclectic selection, that's for sure. http://baptism.co.nz/leader.pdf Matthew's speech from the National Young Leader's Day: "A good leader has many characteristics. However, today I shall focus on just three of them: honesty, fairness and persuasiveness." http://baptism.co.nz/geek.html New Zealand's internet gurus are in the final stages of review of a proposed second level domain .geek.nz and I have submitted a document in support of this 2LD. http://baptism.co.nz/fly/ I have updated the most horrendous typographical errors in the flight narratives. There's no new content there, but what there is doesn't have the terrible problem of all the text being centered. Or of the top paragraph of the pages being missing sometimes. One day, I might write about 1998 to 2002. Don't hold your breath. http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/03/Apr/dogbite.html A few months ago, I found an article in Credit magazine which I thought was amusing, so I submitted it to the newgroup rec.humor.funny and then forgot about it. Today, I received an email telling me it had been accepted. I've been receiving other emails about it ever since... http://thesmirks.com In my younger days, I used to like many sorts of music, but one particular favourite was The Smirks, a group from Manchester who never quite made it to the big time. There was a terrible shortage of internet material about them. I have started to fix this. http://baptism.co.nz/gram26.html It's possible to unearth lots of things from Google, but you can never be sure if it's a real Mark Twain quotation, or even a real Chinese curse. http://baptism.co.nz/gram25.html Ian faces up to the fact he hasn't got anything new to say because everyone is still making the same old mistakes, but then finds he's writing about typos. http://baptism.co.nz/gram24.html A very simple concept, the food that the Israelites were given to eat while in the desert. Yet New Zealanders mess it up every day. http://baptism.co.nz/sermon9.html Matthew preached his first sermon at our youth service on 15 December. Just like my sermons, I have posted it on the website. I look forward to many more. http://baptism.co.nz/grammarian.html I have been asked to speak at Wellingto SWAP's Christmas function on Friday. Their flyer included a link to this page, so I have written them a paragraph of welcome. http://baptism.co.nz/fly/ A long time ago, I wrote about my travels around the world, but I stopped at the end of 1997. I have just moved those pages from Yahoo! GeoCities to my own site, and will make it look like the rest of the site at some point in the future... http://baptism.co.nz/gram23.html Hang your head in shame, Ian, for leaving it so long. Here are some new thoughts, explaining the troublesome trio of etc., e.g. and i.e.