Recently I have been talking about more serious issues. It has been quite a wake-up call how readers can often be quite nit-picking and very ready to point out where one might have gone wrong. I truly appreciate feed-back, but it does make one hesita...
Views: 55 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, March 28th, 2008 | Tags: none
North America, specifically the United States, has been a land peopled by descendants of Europe. At least, that’s how I perceived it to be. If you are ever in New York on St Patrick’s Day, check out the parade. It’s an endless procession of Iri...
Views: 63 | 1 Comment » | posted on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 | Tags: immigration, science, talent, teenagers, united states
Science fiction is not normally my first choice of reading material, unless of course it is about the trips through galaxy as described by a very funny writer called Douglas Adams. But I have been converted to the modern Cory Doctorow-style science f...
Views: 60 | No Comments » | posted on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 | Tags: Apple, cars, cellphones, Cory Doctorow, data, email, future, gadgets, information, science fiction
In a rather illuminating article in the latest Trendwatching brief, the discussion is about free love. It’s about businesses offering goods, services or experiences to consumers for free and making their money from other things. Prime examples that...
Views: 93 | No Comments » | posted on Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 | Tags: advertising, Chris Anderson, facebook, free, internet, marketing, online advertising, online marketing
The American elections are quite interesting to outsiders for a change. Usually as a non-involved party, the endless primaries and the actual elections tend to be terrible yawn affairs. It’s normally time to cancel all newsletter subscriptions from...
Views: 105 | No Comments » | posted on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 | Tags: barack obama, corruption, crime, education, emigration, Jacob Zuma, South Africa, United Kingdom
The armed forces always believed that subordination of the troops to the command was essential. If there were strictly enforced rules of behaviour maintained, then the soldier next to you would be able to rely on you performing according to drill dur...
Views: 29 | No Comments » | posted on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 | Tags: none
When I was at senior school I chose to take maths and physical science as my main subjects. I only did this because this made me appear intelligent and gave me a certain status. It also gave me four years of total hell and agony. Science was not for ...
Views: 45 | No Comments » | posted on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 | Tags: academics, arts, creativity, degrees, education, Ken Robinson, science, universities
The first thing I learnt -- and admittedly it took a fair number of months -- was that I should not have given up my day job. Alright, I didn’t give up the day job as I didn’t have one to start off with. But still. I would have starved if I had d...
Views: 36 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, February 1st, 2008 | Tags: blogs, Google PageRank, income
There were two stories during the past week that made me ponder human nature. The first one was the story about seven young people living in a small Welsh community who took their own lives over a period of about a year.
These young people, aged i...
Views: 53 | No Comments » | posted on Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 | Tags: social networking, suicide, teenagers
This is the world we live in. Personal freedoms are squashed whether by governments or religious fervour. Remember those ubiquitous CCTV cameras in the UK. The work place is structured and controlled to ensure that individual creative thinking is red...
Views: 21 | No Comments » | posted on Sunday, January 27th, 2008 | Tags: none
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