Under The Sun

What is the point of Snap Preview? I thought we’d all agreed that uninvited pop-ups are intrusive, distracting, annoying and downright rude. Supposedly it gives the user the opportunity to decide whether the link is worth following, but since the Snap thumbnails are generally too small to read any of the text, all you can really preview is the colour scheme:  “I’m not going there– not with that shade of green…”.

When the little blighters started popping up on web sites all I wanted to do was GET THEM OFF MY BROWSER, not to actually look at them, so it was some time before I discovered that every Snap Preview contains a link to turn all previews off:

• click the “Options” link in the top right of the preview window
• in the options dialog, click “Disable Snap Preview Anywhere for ALL sites”

Relief — at least until you clear your cookies. You can also disable Snap Preview here.

With rising tension in Iraq and Iran, the IPCC report on climate change and, for us in Britain, bird flu in a Norfolk turkey farm, Michael Spencer has a timely post on Christian anxiety about the “End of the World”

Christians should be a community who looks at any apocalypse with hope. Not just hope that there is a resurrection beyond, but hope that Christ gives us victory over fear in the here and now. The likelihood of a nuclear detonation, viral epidemic or environmental catastrophe may be real, but Christians have always been able to minister, serve and love in the midst of the worst of times precisely because they believed all these events were under the control of the Lord of history and could not, ultimately, take anything of real value away from us.