by podblack on October 31, 2010
Just a quick update to say: 1. Insanely busy. I mean, nutty busy. Going to spend today just going through the list of things I have to get done and then get to the things that I actually want to get done and then I might see about doing things like ‘food’ and ‘sleep’ and [...]
by podblack on October 4, 2010
Dear Bloggy-readers, I’m going to only write for the blog for the foreseeable future on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays – simply because I’m out of time! Or at least, it feels as if there’s more pressing needs that I really should be devoting my energies to, and the blog is just going to have to [...]
by podblack on June 22, 2010
I think it’s the first time I’ve ever walked into one of my classrooms and faced the situation where due to a tragedy in the community, a class could not be completed as scheduled. Due to that, things have been rather turned upside-down, on top of recovering from a cold. So – in order to [...]
by podblack on May 17, 2010
Gah. Okay, I admit it. I do most of my blogging and podcasting work between the hours of 5am and 8am. It’s quiet, it’s relatively cat-free and I can catch up on friends who happen to be in different time-zones (e.g over in the Eastern states, where it’s about three hours ahead, or in the [...]
by podblack on March 2, 2010
Just a few items of possible interest: Firstly, the Rise of Atheism program is now out at the official site: http://www.atheistconvention.org.au/program. AC Grayling will be happy; he spoke to some of my students tonight and was wondering when it was online! I’m part of the opening with the very spiffing gentlemen David Nicholls and Stuart [...]
by podblack on January 26, 2010
From the Think Humanist boards – if you can help, do help by checking out these previous blog-posts. Contributor To Australian Skeptic Fighting For Justice In Nigeria Update on Leo Igwe, Skeptic Needing Help In Nigeria MURDER CHARGE: INVESTIGATION DRAGS ON AND ON – Leo Igwe Yesterday, I was at the police station in Umuahaia [...]
by podblack on January 15, 2010
Thanks to Sean the Blogonaut who is currently composing an article for the Australian Atheist publication — I’ve made a short statement for today’s Skeptic Zone podcast to keep people up-to-date. Here’s the video that Sean found of Leo in 2009, in a case of “witch exorcist” Pastor Helen Akpabio storming the Calabar Cultural Center [...]
by podblack on January 9, 2010
From Stephen Law’s site - background info here “Contributor To Australian Skeptic Fighting For Justice In Nigeria” and here: The State Security Service has taken Uche with them away from his home supposedly to their offices. Leo has asked the person who lives with Uche to go to the offices and ask what is happening. [...]