I cry easily, I’m a sentimental fool sometimes,I don’t have a problem with that, I don’t think it’s a weakness in others – most of the time. The fall out from “whatever-you-wanna-call-it-gate” around the events in the third (cricket) Test match between South Africa and Australia last weekend rumbles on. Time was you would believeContinue reading “The Saw Doctors on Aussie ball tampering.”
Category Archives: Personal
Why the Outrage?…another opinion
“Just as environmentalists demand that the fossil fuel industry ‘leave it in the ground,’ the ultimate demand to be levelled at Silicon Valley should be ‘leave it in our heads.’ The real villain here is an expansionary economic logic that insists on inspecting ever more of our thoughts, feelings and relationships.” William Davies writing onContinue reading “Why the Outrage?…another opinion”
Birthday words
Wise words. Not mine but those of Professor Stephen Hawking and well worth repeating. Today is my birthday. They are all of equal importance but this one used to have far more significance. (The clue is in the second suggestion.) “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two,Continue reading “Birthday words”
Why I’m glad my son doesn’t play the game that I love.
As the 6 Nations reaches its climax it’s time to look hard at the real problem of head injuries. Rugby players more likely than not to sustain a concussion after 25 matches in a season. Concussion is one of the biggest problems facing both rugby union and league. Rates of the traumatic brain injury in rugbyContinue reading “Why I’m glad my son doesn’t play the game that I love.”
“this torrent of idiocy and self-indulgence gets to one”
“In the end, this torrent of idiocy and self-indulgence gets to one, which is why I have morphed from being someone who always monitored Twitter into someone who only occasionally checks it.” John Naughton in The Observer Yes indeed.
…we pay for the product or content, and surrender our data.
Good, thought provoking piece by Jean-Louis Gassée which concludes: The not-so-good news is the flow of “domestic data” that we unwittingly offer up to Amazon’s sophisticated Machine Learning citadel. In an admirable and to-be-feared sense, Amazon has the upper hand on Google and Apple. With Google, we don’t pay for the product, We Are The ProductContinue reading “…we pay for the product or content, and surrender our data.”
We had shown resilience and proven that so much in performance is about belonging and purpose.
We had shown resilience and proven that so much in performance is about belonging and purpose. Like I said, it was a surreal weekend; in a city driven by opulence and materialism there were a bunch of boys from the Fijian villages, some who had no family homes to go back to, happier than anyContinue reading “We had shown resilience and proven that so much in performance is about belonging and purpose.”
and I thought it was just me…and Richard Hellen
According to the Wall Street Journal, printers are among the most in-demand objects in “rage rooms,” where people pay to smash things with sledgehammers; Battle Sports, a rage-room facility in Toronto, goes through fifteen a week. Meanwhile, in the song “Paper Jam” John Flansburgh, of the band They Might Be Giants, sees the jam as aContinue reading “and I thought it was just me…and Richard Hellen”
The Monday Morning Quote #468
“It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.” Noam Chomsky
The Weekend Read. Silence by Erling Kagge.
I thought I would start the New Year with a mention for this absolute gem of a book. It follows on beautifully from Deep Work and Solitude which I have mentioned before. I am grateful to my neighbours Walt and Ann from the other side of the hill here at ReesAcres for their recommendation. TheyContinue reading “The Weekend Read. Silence by Erling Kagge.”
The Incisal Edge 