<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>The Mary Blog</title><rights>Copyright 2009 marykelly.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-01-28T12:19:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2008-03-26:links.412092688</id><title>Girls and our bodies</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/girls_and_our_bodies.htm"><![CDATA[It&#39;s commonly known that no woman is entirely happy with her body 100% of the time.  Well I suppose one or two may exist in the world but let&rsquo;s face it they are few and far between.  I admit I am lucky enough not to have a perfect body but]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/girls_and_our_bodies.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2008-03-26T00:01:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-26T00:01:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2008-02-25:links.412086169</id><title>&quot;Dear Mary&quot;: Email etiquette</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/dear_mary_email_etiquette.htm"><![CDATA[In emails that I think are likely to be of little to no consequence, where I am unlikely to meet or indeed have never met the intended recipient, I generally use this format:Mr/Mrs/Miss X,yada yada yadaThanks, (this part is optional, depending on whe]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/dear_mary_email_etiquette.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2008-02-25T23:00:00Z</updated><published>2008-02-25T23:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2008-01-09:links.412075337</id><title>The Infidel Challenge</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/infidel_challenge.htm"><![CDATA[A &quot;Infidel challenge&quot; has been launched on the internet. &nbsp;The challenge is to &quot;create a horribly drawn image of Islam&rsquo;s prophet Mohammad, and display it in a public area.&quot; the internet counts as a public area.&nbsp;I&nb]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/infidel_challenge.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2008-01-09T18:26:00Z</updated><published>2008-01-09T18:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-10-15:links.412050538</id><title>The Heresy of &quot;His Dark Materials&quot;</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/the_heresy_of_his_dark_materials.htm"><![CDATA[&quot;Atheism for kids. That is what Philip Pullman sells&quot;.&nbsp; So sayeth the &quot;Catholic League&quot; in disgusted tones.&nbsp; Now this really makes quite angry, and I am not often angry.&nbsp; SO WHAT IF HE IS SELLING ATHEISM FOR KIDS IT]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/the_heresy_of_his_dark_materials.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-10-15T16:52:00Z</updated><published>2007-10-15T16:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-10-08:links.412048405</id><title>Paley&apos;s universe in a watch</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/paleys_universe_in_a_watch.htm"><![CDATA[It&#39;s true that for a while, too long, I didn&#39;t have an answer for the Paley&#39;s watch argument for God.&nbsp; It also also true to say that I still think&nbsp;that the &quot;argument from design&quot; as it is called is one of the strongest]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/paleys_universe_in_a_watch.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-10-08T19:31:00Z</updated><published>2007-10-08T19:31:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-10-03:links.412046839</id><title>Perfection is acceptance</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/perfection_is_acceptance.htm"><![CDATA[I was putting up some new curtains the other day and anyone who has ever put up curtains I&#39;m sure will agree with me that getting the crinkles at the top just right is by far the&nbsp;most difficult aspect of this particular activity.&nbsp; Now b]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/perfection_is_acceptance.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-10-03T17:07:00Z</updated><published>2007-10-03T17:07:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-09-20:links.412042820</id><title>A Rock of the North</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/a_rock_of_the_north.htm"><![CDATA[Northern Rock, an English bank, saw trouble in the American mortgage industry, panicked, asked the UK government to help, the good UK government agreed result? CHAOS!Usually, I admit, I like to dump blame on the government or on some hideously wealth]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/a_rock_of_the_north.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-09-20T16:34:00Z</updated><published>2007-09-20T16:34:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-06-25:links.412012300</id><title>Political Ties</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/politicians_ties.htm"><![CDATA[I have long suspected that politicians are trying to get something through to us subliminally through their ties after noticing that many politicians seem to have favourite tie colours which they utilise on an exceedingly regular basis, too often to]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/politicians_ties.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-06-25T16:31:00Z</updated><published>2007-06-25T16:31:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-06-19:links.412010110</id><title>The most important day of my death</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/the_most_important_day_of_my_death.htm"><![CDATA[These my official funeral plans.&nbsp; They overrule anything else I randomly tell anyone or I write anywhere else (apart from the copy also saved onto my hard drive).&nbsp; I will change this every time I wish to make an alteration and therefore thi]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/the_most_important_day_of_my_death.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-06-19T16:38:00Z</updated><published>2007-06-19T16:38:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-06-13:links.412007714</id><title>Hit not the little children</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/hit_not_the_little_children.htm"><![CDATA[For once I possess a morally, ethically and spiritually valid reason for not&nbsp;having come by my blog in a while - I have been buried up to my ears in study.&nbsp; I have just survived a particularly nasty stretch of exam period which stressed me]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/hit_not_the_little_children.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-06-13T17:12:00Z</updated><published>2007-06-13T17:12:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-04-18:links.411983955</id><title>One code of conduct, many alligators</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/one_code_of_conduct_many_alligators.htm"><![CDATA[When I heard a long the pipeline of a blogging code of conduct, I, being the sort of person that has a desire to restore&nbsp;honor and dignity to the blogoshere, immediately began a mission to&nbsp;locate the said code.&nbsp; After risking my life s]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/one_code_of_conduct_many_alligators.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-04-18T10:31:00Z</updated><published>2007-04-18T10:31:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-04-17:links.411983464</id><title>Google is BIG</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/google_is_big.htm"><![CDATA[Now, this seems an incredibly obvious satement, Google&nbsp; has made one huge footprint on the world we know today, I&#39;ve known this for a few years now.&nbsp; However, today&nbsp;was checking my gmail email (incase you don&#39;t&nbsp; know gmail]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/google_is_big.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-04-17T09:29:00Z</updated><published>2007-04-17T09:29:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-04-16:links.411982908</id><title>Requiescat In Pace</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/requiescat_in_pace.htm"><![CDATA[I would like to return to the theme of my last post&nbsp;- gravestones and I would like to proclaim to the world in general that I would like:&nbsp;Requiescat In PaceRest in PeaceOn my graverstone not R.I.P.&nbsp; Am I the only one who thinks you sho]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/requiescat_in_pace.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-04-16T12:39:00Z</updated><published>2007-04-16T12:39:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-04-14:links.411982356</id><title>This was me</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/this_was_me.htm"><![CDATA[Vidstone has allowed us all to achieve our dreams of afterlife; we can now put youtube on our tombstones.&nbsp; Vidstone installs an LCD panel into your tombstone (or that of your loved one if you are not as morbid as myself to have been planning you]]></content><dc:subject>gravestones</dc:subject><dc:subject>death</dc:subject><dc:subject>graveyards</dc:subject><dc:subject>tombstones</dc:subject><dc:subject>youtube</dc:subject><dc:subject>rememberance</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/this_was_me.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-04-14T10:21:00Z</updated><published>2007-04-14T10:21:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-04-05:links.411978103</id><title>The Economics of Giving</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/the_economics_of_giving.htm"><![CDATA[The economics book lying in front of me has inspired me to do one of my first economically related posts ever, I warn you I may get very confused so please be forgiving.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s about one of the small issues that has silently bugged be for a]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/the_economics_of_giving.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-04-05T17:52:00Z</updated><published>2007-04-05T17:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-04-05:links.411978102</id><title>Communities I&apos;m honoured to be in</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/communities_im_honoured_to_be_in.htm"><![CDATA[I would like to do a brief bit of advertising here, firstly for the atheist blogroll which will shortly be appearing on my site.&nbsp; It is a list of like-mind blogs tht get together to promote free thinking and rationality in a world that seems to]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/communities_im_honoured_to_be_in.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-04-05T16:13:00Z</updated><published>2007-04-05T16:13:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-03-20:links.411970144</id><title>Agnostic Atheism</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/agnostic_atheism.htm"><![CDATA[I would like to start off this entry with a diagram, here&#39;s one I made earlier:THEISM&nbsp;------------------------------------- AGNOSTICISM ------------------------------------- ATHEISM&nbsp;That is the chart of theistic ideas as I see it.&nbsp;]]></content><dc:subject>god</dc:subject><dc:subject>atheism</dc:subject><dc:subject>theism</dc:subject><dc:subject>agnosticism</dc:subject><dc:subject>belieif</dc:subject><dc:subject>fairies</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/agnostic_atheism.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-03-20T18:45:00Z</updated><published>2007-03-20T18:45:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-02-03:links.411935158</id><title>The End... of theism week</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/the_end_of_theism_week.htm"><![CDATA[I&#39;ve eventually come to the end of theism week, well not eventually because that sounds like it seemed to take ages but it actually was quite quick.&nbsp; I think, on the whole, and to be very honest (because thats what I do on this blog) in one]]></content><dc:subject>god</dc:subject><dc:subject>religion</dc:subject><dc:subject>love</dc:subject><dc:subject>guilt</dc:subject><dc:subject>belief</dc:subject><dc:subject>theism</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/the_end_of_theism_week.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-02-03T20:55:00Z</updated><published>2007-02-03T20:55:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-01-30:links.411931518</id><title>Theism week report</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/theism_week_report.htm"><![CDATA[The first thing that comes to mind when I think of &#39;so, what have I learnt so far&#39; is that this is really difficult!&nbsp; I mean, it really is!&nbsp; Ok, so I never expected it to be easy, but I find that I have to concentrate to believe tha]]></content><dc:subject>god</dc:subject><dc:subject>st pauls</dc:subject><dc:subject>london</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/theism_week_report.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-01-30T20:16:00Z</updated><published>2007-01-30T20:16:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-01-28:links.411929710</id><title>The theism experiment</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/the_theism_experiment.htm"><![CDATA[I going to believe... for one week.]]></content><dc:subject>religion</dc:subject><dc:subject>god</dc:subject><dc:subject>church</dc:subject><dc:subject>experiment</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/the_theism_experiment.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-01-28T21:17:00Z</updated><published>2007-01-28T21:17:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-01-24:links.411926351</id><title>The goldfish parable</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/goldfishgod.htm"><![CDATA[And the goldfish wondered, if there is no God, who changes the water?]]></content><dc:subject>god</dc:subject><dc:subject>religion</dc:subject><dc:subject>goldfish</dc:subject><dc:subject>stories</dc:subject><dc:subject>parables</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/goldfishgod.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-01-24T19:42:00Z</updated><published>2007-01-24T19:42:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-01-17:links.411920433</id><title>Web 2.0</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/web2.htm"><![CDATA[Web 2.0, yes I know it's possibly one of the most used (perhaps over used/blogged) memes of recent times but, all the more reason to make sure I do something on it huh?Well, I think I only have a vague notion of what is meant by web 2.0]]></content><dc:subject>web 20</dc:subject><dc:subject>google</dc:subject><dc:subject>youtube</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/web2.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-01-17T18:25:00Z</updated><published>2007-01-17T18:25:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-01-14:links.411917941</id><title>&quot;Yours is a jealous God&quot;</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/yours_is_a_jealous_god.htm"><![CDATA[I was thinking about that quote from the Bible the other day "Your is a jealous God" yes, firstly the obvious thing that you think of  is wait a second... how can God be jealous, isn't he a nice guy?  But thats an obvious]]></content><dc:subject>god</dc:subject><dc:subject>the world</dc:subject><dc:subject>creation</dc:subject><dc:subject>philosophy</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/yours_is_a_jealous_god.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-01-14T23:59:00Z</updated><published>2007-01-14T23:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-01-11:links.411915523</id><title>The unjust keepeth drier when it doth rain</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/rain.htm"><![CDATA[&quot;The rain it raineth all uponthe Just and Unjust both together;But more upon the Just becausethe Unjust hath the Just&#39;s umbrella&quot;Be dry in the rain, be unjust.]]></content><dc:subject>unjust</dc:subject><dc:subject>umbrellas</dc:subject><dc:subject>rain</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/rain.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-01-11T15:01:00Z</updated><published>2007-01-11T15:01:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:marykelly.blog-city.com,2007-01-04:links.411908990</id><title>Sell your soul on YouTube</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/sell_your_soul_on_youtube.htm"><![CDATA[How to sell your soul for a free dvd, my step-by-step guide]]></content><dc:subject>blasphemy challenge</dc:subject><dc:subject>devil</dc:subject><dc:subject>hell</dc:subject><dc:subject>god</dc:subject><dc:subject>religion</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://marykelly.blog-city.com/sell_your_soul_on_youtube.htm"/><dc:creator>Mary Kelly</dc:creator><author><name>Mary Kelly</name></author><updated>2007-01-04T23:59:00Z</updated><published>2007-01-04T23:59:00Z</published></entry></feed>