I have updated my We Blog Cartoons website for the first time in quite a while with this diagram, entitled Embarrassing incidents. We Blog Cartoons is my site with cartoons that you can repost for free on your personal weblog. For print rights and suchlike please contact me.

This diagram was drawn for those who, like me, squirm continually at the thought of the things they have said and done and then regretted.

In my mind I’m beginning to compile a liturgy for the healing of embarrassing incidents. Examples would be read out, and then the congregation would respond with ‘Dear me, that is embarrassing!’ or other appropriate words. I’ve not got far with it as you can tell. If it turns out to be any good I’ll submit it to the people at Common Worship and see what happens. Or I might take it along to Synod, loiter in the corridors and see whether I can get any bishops to endorse it. To tell the truth I haven’t really looked into how one goes about these things.

Posted by Dave at 11:03 am on November 15, 2010 and filed under Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons, Spirituality.

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Hello.

As you may or may not have noticed this blog has been silent for around 44 days. Giving an account of the causes would risk a drift into the realms of the tiresome, but in summary I’ve been a bit under the weather for one reason or another. I have been keeping my paid commitments going, but some other things have been allowed to drift somewhat.

Thank you for a number of kind messages expressing good sentiments of various sorts.

Anyway, I fully intend to start this blog going again. I’m not putting any pressure on myself to do it daily, but hopefully there will be new things a number of times a week. This blog may well go back to being the place where I post any old nonsense, which in the past has tended to produce the best results.

(New cartoon from my We Blog Cartoons site, where you’ll find some of my cartoons that can be freely re-used on blogs.)

Posted by Dave at 7:54 pm on November 23, 2008 and filed under CartoonChurch progress, CartoonChurch.com newsletter, Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons.

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I have made various cartoons available in various ways.

For church magazine editors and other people who’d like high resolution versions:

• ‘Back of Church Sunday‘ is available on CartoonChurch.com
• ‘Bishops’ meetings‘ is available on CartoonChurch.com
• ‘Numbers‘ is available on CartoonChurch.com
• ‘Church v football‘ is available on CartoonChurch.com

A licence to re-publish these and all of my downloadable cartoons costs £35 a year in a church context, or £3 per item.

For bloggers:

• Become a famous blogger is available on We Blog Cartoons

You can re-use all of the We Blog Cartoons images freely on your personal blog subject to a few minor conditions.

Posted by Dave at 12:05 pm on October 10, 2007 and filed under New CartoonChurch cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons.

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This cartoon is available to re-use on your blog. You can find the code at We Blog Cartoons.

Facebook. Don’t we all just love it. I was first sent an invitation and joined up back in November when it was still more of a student thing. I found it a really marvellous way to catch up with people who had been in my youth group when I was a youth worker, and it still is. Of course now it has mushroomed, overtaking other social networking websites by a long way in the circles I move in.

There are downsides of course. I have heard people talking about Facebook as being a sort of an online ‘gated community’ or ‘walled garden’, as discussed by this popular web blogger. I can’t remember why this is a bad thing, but I seem to recall that it is. Something to do with the fact that if you are in inside it is all very well, but outside there is wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Then there are the security and privacy aspects, which do concern me. Richard has some things to say about this. I’m wondering whether there are implications that we haven’t quite realised yet. I know you can set your privacy levels and everything, but I think there are some security issues that will become apparent before too long. Some of us might just realise that we’ve shared just a little too much with just a few too many people. There are people I know who have chosen not to be a part of Facebook -perhaps one day we will realise how wise they were.

One of the good things about Facebook is that for most people it isn’t a mad rush to get numbers of friends, as Myspace often seems to be. There are people who have 700 friends or 1286 friends or something like that. These are, one supposes, people who will be friends with anything that moves. Personally I tend to prefer to only add people as friends if I know them… more or less. I’m not sure what the social implications of not adding someone as a friend are if they request it. I suppose they’ll just hate you for ever.

Posted by Dave at 12:07 am on July 6, 2007 and filed under Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons, Technical.

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[You can put this cartoon on your blog.]

Today I learned that an important work-related e-mail had not reached its recipient. Fortunately the person got in touch with me, but I suspect often they don’t and we all just assume that other people did not get around to replying and are a bit slack or rude or busy or hate us. Those of us who rely on the internet for business purposes lose money as a result.

According to a shocking statistic that I have just made up e-mail will be entirely useless in 5 to 7 years time as the systems will be so overrun with spam to as to be unworkable. It will all grind to a halt and there will be a small cloud of smoke, a medium-sized ‘pop!’ and that will be it.

In the meantime if you have not received a reply to an e-mail that you have sent me it is definitely because it has got lost in the internet. Unless you are one of the 113 people to whom I have not replied of course.

This cartoon is on We Blog Cartoons meaning you can reuse it for free on your blog.

Posted by Dave at 10:03 pm on April 18, 2007 and filed under Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons, Technical.

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This cartoon is available for free re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

Posted by Dave at 11:26 am on April 17, 2007 and filed under Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons, Technical.

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I have posted this to We Blog Cartoons along with the code to allow you to reuse it on your blog for nothing.

Posted by Dave at 9:05 am on March 23, 2007 and filed under Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons.

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This one can be used on your own blog too. Simply go to We Blog Cartoons and find the secret code. The code will be one of the first things you see, so it is not really that secret.

Posted by Dave at 10:47 am on February 27, 2007 and filed under Cartoons, Household hints, New Weblogcartoons cartoons.

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My Valentines Day cartoon from last year is now available on We Blog Cartoons, meaning that it can be reposted on blogs.

I originally posted it here: Valentines day cartoon.

Posted by Dave at 1:03 pm on February 12, 2007 and filed under Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons.

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You can get some code to republish this one from We Blog Cartoons.

This is not the first procrastination cartoon I have done, hence the ’2′ in the title.

Posted by Dave at 2:18 pm on January 17, 2007 and filed under Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons.

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I’ve posted this one on We Blog Cartoons with some code allowing you to post it on your blog for free.

Posted by Dave at 11:17 am on November 20, 2006 and filed under Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons.

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You can freely re-post this cartoon on your blog – the code to do so is on We Blog Cartoons. In fact there are lots more of my cartoons there that you are welcome to post on your own blog.

Talking of technical things I rather enjoyed reading Andrew the Tall Skinny Kiwi’s explanation of ‘domain mapping’ this morning. It’s a fairly heavy and uninteresting subject for the likes of you and me, but he explains it in a way that put a smile on my face if no-one elses.

As a further tangential and even more uninteresting aside I became aware that I am more or less the only person on the planet who uses the phrase ‘your coaches will wait’, which used to be a regular expression at altar calls at the Billy Graham and other similar evangelistic rallies I attended in my youth. There are three uses of the term on the internet, of whom two are me and one is in the description of a Greenbelt panel with Martin Wroe.

Posted by Dave at 2:13 pm on October 13, 2006 and filed under Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons, Technical.

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