I started morning of December 24th by getting up much too early and almost immediately, before completely woken up, bravely (or foolishly) hopped on an attempt to repair our well used Moccamaster coffee machine. In retrospect I cannot rule out the possibility that the project would have gone a lot smoother had I done three things prior to start-up; 1)…read more>>
Rant
Then it was this about not giving up
… very important. Kids must be taught this at home, as well as in school. In fact, kids should be taught this from kindergarten and up, daily, weekly and monthly. Perseverance and/or persistence can be seen as a quality, or an ability. If you don’t have perseverance to the extent you’d like, well … it can developed. Even the most impatient of…read more>>
A treshhold mile, along a road named Procrastination
I find myself camping there, every once in a while. Somewhere along the road named (or called) Procrastination. That road might, for lack of better examples, occasionally look like this… Come to think of it, the above scenery (or scenario) is a lot more interesting. It’s a problem related to some particular mundane tasks and, regrettably, some (dear)…read more>>
The world might need rocket scientists
… but I am not one of them. Nope, just a someone who might, occasionally, succeed in offering a healthy perspective, whether it’s about life, culture, politics, science, religion, technology, or something else. We’re an army out here, on the web, camping alongside the information super highway, a undefinable group of reasonably smart people, who every so often have something…read more>>
Fiction, reality, and things that quite possibly could be true
We know for a fact, you should not believe everything you read. Whether on a piece of paper, in a newspaper, a magazine, a book or on the net, bluffs, hoaxes, lies and scams lurks about everywhere. Some of the hoaxes are so well thought out and made they can deceive many, at least for a short while….read more>>
Facebook fatigue? Time for a break
You read about it, you hear more and more about it. Some have gone to the length of describing it as a 21st century illness. One that might have a significant impact on people, society, in a not too distant future. The symptoms are much more, far greater and less platform attached. But as Facebook…read more>>
Social media for marketing
Like everyone else I get promotional mails, sales and marketing stuff in my inbox. The majority of these mails auto-magically ends up in the trash, labelled as spam. Thank heavens for improved spam filtering! Some mails I might hastily and/or accidentally scan through, even happens I read some. The reason, or inspiration, for this blog post, came in the…read more>>
What a wonderful world …
… isn’t just a clichè or … maybe it is, certainly quickly can be just that… a clichè. We know all too well that dark, stark, heavy, depressing realities pounds on our doors every day, doors here meant in a non-literal, symbolic term. For some the pounding might be stronger. If and when life & realities lead to sense of…read more>>
Running shoes, too many choices
I am not an fitness extremist, not by a long shot. If you’re in the 50 something, or older, having exercising routines is a good idea. In fact, it is a VERY good idea. Yet, do too much too sporadically, and that is not a good approach. Routines, however dreadful and boring it might sound, is what you need. Else you might end up doing a…read more>>
Job interview – what NOT to do
One time or another we’ve all been there (OK so almost all then), in a job interview, a project interview, applied for a position or role, perhaps a little excited or better/worse, over-excited, nervous, exalted and/or over-exalted. You might have spent the previous morning, day, evening and even night (with little sleep) pondering over what might happen, how…read more>>