Memoirs of a Skinny Welshman

Brain overload : our hope for the future. (Part 1)

I've been sick this week, something going with my left side, may be pneumonia or it might be IBS, the prognosis varies each time I ask.  Had some tests, results on Monday.  Was almost swayed by a TV commercial for a full body MRI scan with results in 3 hours, but the £1295 price tag put me off...

Anyway, being in one place for a whole week, gives you some thinking time, and with the aches and pains of sickness I have been reflecting on what we're becoming and where we are going.

I read a news article last month which spoke of two satellites obliterating each other having had a 'space collision'. I would think there was much left when each one travelled at 27,000 mph.  There was talk of concern of debris crashing into other satellites and not much talk of the things crashing to earth, but needless to say with approx. 8,000 live satellites and another 16,000 in decay, all at varying orbits, angles and speeds, it's a long way from 4th October 1957, when the very first one - the Russian made Sputnik was launched.  It's 18,830 days, 15 hours, 6 minutes and 6 seconds between the launch and right now, and boy have we come a long way.

It was only 53 years before that man took it's first flight.  

I haven't got 'manflu' but...

I don't have a Laura around to help either, so it's even worse...   The clip is hilarious though - and yes ladies we basically do milk it for all we can get.

Resurrecting www.thefaithfulpixel.com

In September 2006 I launched a Christian version of a pixel advertising website called www.thefaithfulpixel.com  I needed to raise some finance for ministry and it did the trick while helping churches, ministries and individuals promote what they do.  Adverts have been coming to the end of their life for some time now and I had a simple choice to make, leave it die, or see if there is still interest in the idea. So I'm re-launching it, tweeking the process to make it simpler and halving the price.  

The really good news is the first 100 responses can have a free advert if they put a link or graphical banner for www.thefaithfulpixel.com onto their own website.

Last time around the funds from this helped me to build a church in India, sponsor two Mac Book Pro laptops to a creative ministry in Cape Town called Restoring the sound, and paid for quite a lot of ministry related travel.  Who knows that might happen this time.

This is how the grid looks at the moment :-

There is quite a lot of work to be done, but I've got more contacts now than ever.

I've halved the price of the adverts and made it so each advert can stay on the site for one year.  If you scroll over an advert you'll also see how many clicks it has had and a description of that person or organisation.

So if you want a free advert, you need to email me quickly, as this will go like a shot.

Email: admin@thefaithfulpixel.com 

Website: www.thefaithfulpixel.com