Archive for December, 2005
Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
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Some morning fun:
Ever get annoyed with Buzz words/phrases?
Or
Don’t want to take yourself too seriously for the work you do as a consultant/marketer/business person?
This is for you: The Web Economy Bullshit Generator.
Simply put in a phrase and see what you [...]
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
When you read this please ask yourself: What is one small thing I can do to bring about healing? Small things have always made huge differences. Remember the butterfly effect if you don’t believe me.
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Have you noticed?
Over the last year the earth has been shaking/shaken up quite a bit.
Both the ‘man made’:
- War - [...]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
"Shall we dance or something to celebrate?" Asked healing pixie, Seanan, in an email today…and in doing so kindly highlighted that:
Today is the shortest day and longest night of the year
- ie when one hemisphere of the earth, in this case, the Northern one, is the furthest away from the sun in its orbit.
In a quick spot [...]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
NY is in the midst of a transit strike.
The day when you have three back-to-back and important-to-you meetings.
In three distinct areas of the city.
All disctinct from the area you reside.
Somewhere Murphy is chuckling.
And after a brief moment of frustration I decided to join him.
Transit strikes are striking things.
In a city like [...]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
Alice laughed.
"There’s no use trying," she said:
"one CAN’T believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven’t had much practice"
said the Queen.
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, 1872, Chapter 5
Must be a week for pen names - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson = Lewis Carroll
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
"Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the Artist:
Give me leave to do my utmost"
– Isak Dineson - Babette’s Feast
Thank you Kovari. Thank you Martin. Thank you Alice. Thank you Nicole. Thank you Andrea. Thank you Diana. Thank you.
PS Isak Dineson is actually the pen name of Karen [...]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
In discussion the value of story, Steve wrote,
"I strongly agree that the value of the story lies in the state of reflection in the listener, rather than the surface value of the entertainment.
This is, in effect, the Copernician Revolution in storytelling. Thus Copernicus pointed out that the movements of the stars would be [...]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
oh the joy of anagrams - and the power of a single word: it contains so much! Why do we contrain them so?
Fun and movement => knowledge and change and … de-light!
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Monday, December 19th, 2005
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
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Monday, December 19th, 2005
"The universe is the most exquisite mechanism ever constructed by nobody", from G.K.Chesterton
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