Here is a index of a selection of my writings over the last year or so, mostly visiting places in the Bible and national parks in the Middle East.   As an IT professional, I often write about topics in my line of work, with a few how tos, reviews and best practices.

Please excuse a few formatting errors, as it took my a while to get fully used to how WordPress handles, I need to tweak some of my earlier articles.

Jerusalem

12th of May is Jerusalem day! | 2nd day here in Jerusalem |  33 | Accidental archaeology | Africans at Kotel / Wedding around road works | Ben Yehuda Street colourful back street gift shop | Back in Jerusalem for a second season… | Bike shopping and chatting with local in Talpiyot | Bike theft and modern day Samaritans | Bombproof bins |  Bridgend > Heathrow > Budapest > Tel Aviv > Jerusalem = one heck of a long day…. | Brief visit to the temple mount | Canaries in the Arab quarter / Arab women selling mint leaves | Cats in the holyland | Caves in park in Yemin Moshe behind King David hotel | Channukah | Chinese cult by Jaffa gate |  Christmas in Jerusalem | Coffee shops that call your name | Computers translate ancient extinct Ugaritic semitic language |Dividing wall in Jerusalem |  Driving on highways through the West Bank | Drumming band, rare easter egg shop and familiar name in Arabic |  East Jerusalem |  Easter weekend & Pesach |  Ethiopian bar | Furry neighbours |Garden of Gethsemane | Glimpse of Israel’s brief car industry | Golden Gate and strange graffiti? | Golden Gate graffiti | Holocaust memorial day / 62nd anniversary of Israel | Hurva Synagogue | In Sepia: Holyland pictures collection | International Christian Embassy Jerusalem Feast of Tabernacles concert | Jerusalem Beer festival | Jerusalem’s Clover Map | Jerusalem Parade | Jerusalem part 2 starts March… | Jerusalem Segway tours | Jerusalem UN Headquaters yard | July 2010 and IT work in Jerusalem |King David Citadel light show | King David harp bridge | King David Museum, Hezekiah’s tunnels and Silwan troubles | Kosher highway code & Middle east motorcycling expedition | Money changers | modern Shepherd | More odd and interesting shops in Jerusalem | Mount of Olives | “Never be silent” – the modern day Watchmen of Jerusalem | Odd tat for sale in markets in Jerusalem | Pesach holidays and cycling | Pomegranates |Power cut in Talpiyot |  Prayer around Knesset | Prayer walking places |  Priestly tombs |  Recent demonstration of 100,000 Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem | Recycled rockets into gifts | Ride around Meir Shariem | Riding to work – commuting Jerusalem | Rosh Hashana & rain |Rosh HaShana, happy 5771! |  Sanhedrin Tombs, burning garbage, wild birds | Saturday afternoon cycling and robots | Searching for Jerusalem’s hidden bits | Shabbat on a balcony overlooking the city | Smoke on the horizon / Arab hand carts |  …So that today you are as many as the stars in the sky… | Succot antics | Succot and Gilat Shalit video | Shuk | St Peter’s fish | Steve’s Packs? The famous business in Jerusalem that isn’t online | Sukkot tents | The Tomb of Jesus |  Thorny bush | Top Gear comes to Arab neigbourhood of Jerusalem? / Killer Cacti | Toy shop in Jaffa Street | Visit to Ammunition Hill Museum | Wasteland in the Armenian quarter inside Jerusalem’s old city walls | Widow’s mite coins for sale | Worship event on the Haas Promenade |Unusual businesses in Israel that make or mend things |  Unknown ruins near old city | Yom Kippur in and around Jerusalem

Tel Aviv

Flying London Heathrow to Tel Aviv Ben Gurion | Back to airport to meet people | Beach buggy and VW bus | Flying home

Other cities and towns

Bethlehem | Beit Shemesh summer camp | Caesarea | Caesarea revisited | Camping in the Golans | Dead Sea trip – 422 metres below sea level | Horse riding in the West Bank | Road trip to the Galilee | Karmiel | Mount Carmel | Modi’im | Netanya | Sderot

The Red Sea and the south

Eilat, Red Sea and Petra, Jordan | Third temple car | Snails in the desert

Misc Israel news & Biblical history.   I generally try to avoid politics and write about just positive things here, but occasionally stories in the media might provoke me to writing:

Bibles for Pakistan and Christians facing persecution | Burning of Korans. Yeah smart plan from some Christians…. | Christians praying for Arabs during Ramadan |Church in a pub |“Dude you have no books to burn” – Ordinary folk tackling extremism | Easter is truly about the greatest story ever told | Electric cars in Israel | Explosive geology of volcanos and natural disasters | ex-Hamas terrorist who finds Jesus stays in the US |‘fake’ Christians | Gaza’s prosperous regions | Guide to volunteering in doing overseas charity work. Part 1. | Futurliner rare bus/truck used by US Christian ministry | Kidnapped Gilad Shalit – 4 years on | Hezbollah’s friends at CNN | Isaiah prophecy in 2009 | Israelis go to help in Haiti | Jimmy Carter and his apologies | June Gaza Flotilla incident and being a volunteer in a unpopular place | Methodist Christians in Portsmouth against Israel | Middle East furniture | Multifaith room in Heathrow Terminal 5 | My neighbourhood, rain and towers of noise | Need software tools for network diagrams |Plans for 2010 |praying with a genuine heart or as a Pharisee |rise and fall and rise of David Icke | Singleness amongst the church | Sizergate and Anti-Zionism in the blogging world |strange back/chest ache and visit to the doctors | Strikes in Tel Aviv Ben Gurion airport & Jesus the blue collar worker | Time to go home (2009) |  Zionism – A bad word to some?

Humour

Apostle Paul on twitter | Arab shopkeeper’s van | Arab Top Gear | Birds using Twitter? | Bottle opener taken hostage | EspanLOL | funfair style game to win cigarettes | Islamic alarm clocks | Jerusalem stock car racing / brains for dinner / recycle buildings | Jewish Blues Brothers | Jordanian royal family | More cutlery antics | Sign posts

Jon’s IT writings

Potato batteries | Bridgend Wales visit | Browser wars and customer’s data | Build your own external USB hard disk | Buying a new PC: build your own, get a off the shelf clone or a brand name PC? | Buying postage online  | creativity in Africa |Computer and audio video cable rip offs |Currency conversion and Google Documents | Donated laptop for Hebrew/Russian user |DIY laptop repair |East Talpiyot neighbours | Features not on mobile phones we would like to see….. |Firefox 4 first impressions / fix your old extensions to work on newer Firefox | Fitting replacement DVD drive to Compaq Presario laptop | Google Documents and cloud computing |How to fix a laptop with overheating issues, like this Dell Inspiron 1150 | IT work in Jerusalem in August | Location based services online and your privacy |Microsoft’s Office 2007 and Sun’s Open Office 3 | Microsoft Office live free web sites | Play CDs/DVDs on a netbook or laptop without an optical drive |Preparing an old PC to go to local family |Put Hebrew support on Windows XP | Rebuilding an Arabic PC | Replacing screen surround on Fujitsu laptop | Small laptops and netbooks | Software as tools – a critical look of Microsoft Outlook | Strip down, repair and refurbish Gateway laptop | Talpiyot food bank team, replacing LCD screen on Acer Travelmate laptop | Thoughts on P2P and Bit Torrent software | Truecrypt – free and effective file encryption | Twitter = Twaddle

Misc / family stuff

Few weeks break to Spain and the UK | Getting a little extra cash back from online shopping | UK elections – how about drive in voting? | Time out of Israel: wedding in Asturias, Spain | Uncledom awaits – meet Beth Naomi Saunders