Giving a speech - tip

If your speech needs to be prefaced by an apology…
don’t give it. (seth)

The future from 1967

Clip from the 1967 film 1999 A.D. in which we see the family of the future shopping, paying bills and using electronic mail from home.

Free language learning

I never ceased to be amazed at the resources that are available on the web. I just came across this one. How to learn a foreign language.

Mango is a great too to be able to pick up some of the basics of a foreign language. Remember those tapes that you could buy years ago. […]

An update on Hoopaa

A quick update on my use of Hoopaa.
During the first few days of use I couldn’t work out what was going wrong. I registered, downloaded but kept getting an error about a mismatched password. So I uninstalled, deleted my account and tried again. Still the same error. I checked again my password, tried to reset […]

I know I love my wife

Yes it’s true. I recently went to Holland for a conference and on the flight I watched the movie by Chris Rock, called “I think I love my wife”.
The basic premise of the movie was about a family man with a beautiful wife and great kids who was dissatisfied with his life. It was a […]

Good deeds for nothing?

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg

Where does capitalism take us?

affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. (de Graaf, 2002)

affluenza, n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit […]

Never Give Up, Never Give Up, Never Give up - living with failure

Sometimes I feel like the biggest failure. Thankfully I am not a depressive personality so this usually doesn’t get me down. But, it does affect the way that I see myself. This week I have failed. Stuffed up, mixed things up and generally fallen far short of my own expectations of myself.
“You won’t get it […]

Finding yourself is about finding others

I think that one of the major weaknesses of society is the emphasis on me.

We are told to look after number one.
We are told that the most important person is me
We are told that you have to look after yourself first
We are told that the most important discovery that we will make is about ourselves.

Of […]

How to get perspective on your problems

I know that we all have the feeling sometimes that our circumstances are overwhelming. There may be too much happening in your life or there may be unfortunate events or we may just be having a really bad day. All of us face problems, some because of our choices and others because of what’s happening […]

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