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Archive for the 'purpose' Category


ideas are cheap

Friday, May 30th, 2008

I was listening to the latest DNTO podcast yesterday on my homeward commute and the topic happened to be, in paraphrase, the ‘origin of good ideas.’ In other words, those great little imagination constructs that are the seeds of incredible things… from whence do they come?
The aforementioned programme alluded to this too, but as [...]

pictures moving pictures

Monday, April 24th, 2006

For those reading who prefer pretty pictures to words, I updated the gallery last night just before I went to bed. It’s one of those wandering photo-expedition-type collections, so you know… lots of macros and things abstract.
Speaking of cameras, I was thinking it would be neat to strap a camera to Sparkle somehow and [...]

exacting notions…

Thursday, January 1st, 2004

We all seem pretty sure that the emergence of a new year is a time for a re-evaluation of our lives. Our resolutions grip us with temporary pride as we wander the next few days telling people what we plan to do to change our lives. It all seems rather trite, sometimes, especially when [...]

selling your cause…

Tuesday, October 7th, 2003

Take the Falun Dafa dudes for example: they stand in the four square meters of concrete that is the front entrance to our office. They stand there day after day, rain or shine, heat or cold, and hand out little slips of paper and CD-ROMs explaining their cause. I suppose if my relatives were being held as political prisoners by the Chinese government, I might be willing to do the same sort of thing.

stealing our thunder?

Tuesday, August 5th, 2003

2003 has been declared by Indian astologers as the worst time EVER to get married.

Work

Monday, March 11th, 2002

Work: (werk) noun: 1. Where I am right now and where I should be doing things-productive. 2. Where I technically am doing things-productive, but after having spent the last 2 hours plugging away on an article for the next issue of our newsletter I am finding my brain spinning around and needing [...]

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