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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog My beloved father the self-described 'thick west-country vicar' has long since ceased to be either a vicar or live in the West Country (and you can't be that thick and get an MA from John's at Cambridge, can you?
[October 1, 2004, 18:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If this was Hollywood, it would be at this point that the director picks up the pace and starts to draw the themes together, culminating with the Vicar taking off in Concorde as the missile defence systems of the world crash and burn.
[August 22, 1998, 8:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News If this was Hollywood, it would be at this point that the director picks up the pace and starts to draw the themes together, culminating with the Vicar taking off in Concorde as the missile defence systems of the world crash and burn.
[August 22, 1998, 7:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog It's all very well expecting a tabula rasa (**), but people have bad habits (well, he's a vicar so you can't really call them bad habits. Time for all sensible types to loll around in the hot sun, sipping cold beer.which is why I'm in The Flying...
[August 31, 1996, 10:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News It's all very well expecting a tabula rasa (**), but people have bad habits (well, he's a vicar so you can't really call them bad habits. Time for all sensible types to loll around in the hot sun, sipping cold beer.which is why I'm in The Flying...
[August 31, 1996, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog An excited phone call from my father, the Flying Vicar (he's not a vicar any more, just a priest, but I like the sobriquet so much I'll stick with it). Monday 24/5/1999 Tee hee! I see that a top venture capitalist consultant in the States is...
[May 28, 1999, 18:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News An excited phone call from my father, the Flying Vicar (he's not a vicar any more, just a priest, but I like the sobriquet so much I'll stick with it). Monday 24/5/1999 Tee hee! I see that a top venture capitalist consultant in the States is...
[May 28, 1999, 17:18]
Symantec Error Gets Vicars In A Twist
News It took the vicar ten hours to cancel cards and rectify his online banking situation. One vicar in Northumberland thought he had been infected with spyware, and promptly cancelled all of his credit cards because he thought someone had all of his...
[August 3, 2006, 14:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Of all the deep, deep joys of IT journalism, none compares to a good old-fashioned vicar story. Thursday 3/08/2006 And that's what we have today, following a complaint from Church House Publishing — the propaganda arm of the Church of England...
[August 7, 2006, 13:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Also attend to my father (the West Country Vicar)'s modem, which has received a direct lightning strike up the interface and is no longer working. Down in Plymouth, dropping Number One Son off with his grandparents for the last blast of the summer...
[August 23, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Also attend to my father (the West Country Vicar)'s modem, which has received a direct lightning strike up the interface and is no longer working. Down in Plymouth, dropping Number One Son off with his grandparents for the last blast of the summer...
[August 23, 1997, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The local newspaper and TV station pick up on this, and readers in the South-West region may well have spotted Flying Vicar stories dotted around the place. Congratulations to The Reverend Christopher WH Goodwins, MA, Retd, who phoned me to reveal...
[September 26, 1998, 7:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News The local newspaper and TV station pick up on this, and readers in the South-West region may well have spotted Flying Vicar stories dotted around the place. Congratulations to The Reverend Christopher WH Goodwins, MA, Retd, who phoned me to reveal...
[September 26, 1998, 6:29]
Lacey: Apple Down, But Far From Out
News Early, hopeful signs about this union will not be helped by the departure of the vicar before she has joined the couple in matrimony. The departure of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer just a week ahead of the firm posting third quarter...
[July 10, 1997, 16:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So the vicar gets a wedge of cash for the roof fund, the mobile company gets to put its antenna somewhat closer to God than before, and everyone's happy. Monday 29/11/2004 Deutsche Welle -- the German equivalent of the BBC World Service -- is...
[December 3, 2004, 17:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The sudden realisation hits me: I'm supposed to be taking Goodwins Junior down to Plymouth this weekend to stay with The Vicar. The BT story rattles around like prune stones in an empty beer can. You can get too close to a story, and have to keep...
[September 19, 1998, 7:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News The sudden realisation hits me: I'm supposed to be taking Goodwins Junior down to Plymouth this weekend to stay with The Vicar. The BT story rattles around like prune stones in an empty beer can. You can get too close to a story, and have to keep...
[September 19, 1998, 6:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog My father, the flying vicar, is getting very close to his PPL - he regales me with tales of perfect landings and cross-country stints. I can't reveal the name of the manufacturer - because they don't know I know - but it's the bee's knees.
[February 21, 1998, 6:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News My father, the flying vicar, is getting very close to his PPL - he regales me with tales of perfect landings and cross-country stints. I can't reveal the name of the manufacturer - because they don't know I know - but it's the bee's knees.
[February 21, 1998, 6:00]
Open Source Developers Step Up Anti-patent Campaign
News Duncan Mac-Vicar, the Kopete project leader, said that it decided to protest after seeing the interest generated by the MPlayer and AMSN homepage. Developers are using shock tactics to persuade the open source community to get involved in the...
[April 14, 2005, 11:55]
