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Posted in Creativity, Education, Faith, Religion, Science on Apr 20th, 2009
There is a slightly amusing discussion going on - I am reluctant to call it a debate - in the responses being made to a Times Online article by Sarah Ebner about whether or not magic should be taught in schools.
The article briefly describes the career of Brad Ross who started learning magic at the [...]
Posted in Creativity, Humanity, Relationships, Society, Television on Apr 1st, 2009
I’ve watched too many reality TV programmes. I can recognise the architecture behind many of them only too clearly. Most now follow a pattern. Their predictability is boring me and the genre appears to be exhausted. They are crafted so tightly that the notion of ‘reality’ is absurd.
The key to all good [...]
Posted in Creativity, Existential, Faith, Humanity, Psychology, Religion, Science on Mar 23rd, 2009
I listened recently to a fascinating radio broadcast where Adrian Shine was discussing how, to date, he had failed to find the mythical watery monster of Loch Ness (Saturday Live, BBC Radio 4, 18/08/07).
Two things made this conversation interesting for me and took it above the realms of the usual “the-monster-must-exist-coz-I’ve-seen-pictures” story. First, this [...]
Posted in Creativity, Productivity on Feb 20th, 2009
Whenever someone asks me to fill a form in about my employment I delight in causing confusion.
“Are you employed, self-employed, or retired?” I am honestly able to reply, “All three!”
Although it confuses others, it is quite clear to me. I retired early from my career and receive a pension for 30 years of my labour. [...]
Posted in Creativity, Internet, Productivity, Technology on Feb 13th, 2009
It’s been a good week for users of Gmail (Google Mail). I must admit, I have been a fan from the beginning. Before the arrival of Gmail I had other internet mail accounts, but the arrival of Gmail seemed to take the experience into another league. Free webmail, accessible from any computer already existed, but [...]
Posted in Art, Creativity, Existential, Human Rights, Humor, Humour, Language, Mortality, Religion, Society, Travel on Feb 6th, 2009
Sorry, but this amused me.
The Guardian is running a competition to see what witty slogans readers can come up with as alternatives to the existing slogans on the Atheist Bus Advertising Campaign. Supporters of the original campaign, which had the slogan, “THERE’S PROBABLY NO GOD. NOW STOP WORRYING AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE.” could perhaps do with [...]
Posted in Creativity, Humanity, Internet, Productivity, Relationships, Technology, iPhone, iPhone 3G on Feb 1st, 2009
Things are definitely changing fast.
I have always tried to embrace technology. I enjoy novelty, regardless of usefulness. I can remember my first computer - a ZX81 purchased from WH Smiths. You couldn’t do anything with it really other than try to learn BASIC. Soon the specialist magazines were filled with programs for it that made [...]
Posted in Creativity, Existential, Humanity, Religion, Society on Jan 15th, 2009
Instruction Manual for Life
TheraminTrees
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Posted in Creativity, Humanity, Morality, Philosophy, Relationships on Jan 8th, 2009
Several years ago when I first started working with clients via telephone I did briefly explore the use of equipment to record telephone calls. There were two reasons for this: 1) the ability to listen to, and analyse calls afterwards would be likely to enhance the quality of future sessions; 2) in the event [...]
Posted in Art, Creativity, Photography on Nov 30th, 2008
On a recent weekend break in Liverpool my wife and I stayed in a hotel near the waterfront and spent a lot of time ambling round the re-developed docks, especially relatively early in the morning where we breakfasted in one of the cafés there. The Liverpool Tate is housed in some of the old warehouses [...]
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