Posts under ‘Musings’

Two relatively trivial events stick in my mind this morning, probably as some form of relief from yesterdays post.
Firstly I use Pandora when I can’t decide what music to play or when I am looking for something new. It’s a great service and in it’s simplest form you give it the name of an artist [...]

On my blogwalk today I visited my new online friend J. Sanchez Zolliker (blog in Spanish) and was surprised to see a video of a Steve Jobs address to university students. It lasts about 15 minutes (and is subtitled in Spanish on his site). I foolishly admit that I was drawn to the video because [...]

While blogwalking I came across this little quiz over at blogthings. So I did it and here it is for what it’s worth.

Your Dosha is Kapha

Calm and grounded, you are not prone to mood swings or anger.
However, once you do get angry, it takes a lot to cool you down.
You tend to think a little [...]

Well this is it. I’ve finally started my diet, the one I have been working up to for the past few months. I know what I’m doing as I’ve been here before. As usual the idea is to diet first and maintain afterwards. It’s always the maintaining part that is the most difficult.
I lost a [...]

It’s been a very busy week. TGIF!
Professionally the move means me splitting my time between two offices and some overtime to compensate. All my professional activities are in flux and I will have to adhere to new objectives.
I have been asked to step up as National IT Director of an Association that I am [...]

As I mentioned the other day I’ve moved offices and now everything is unpacked. It all went very smoothly and the only things left to do urgently are to get me a phone so people can phone me and to redirect printing to my new office.
Through the wonders of modern networking if I send something [...]

My wife and I learnt today that a very good friend’s husband is not getting any better. Since we know her, her husband has been ill and that’s over ten years now. In addition to cancer and renal failure she learnt recently that he has been diagnosed as having Alzheimers disease. That’s a lot of [...]

I am a big fan of Juslooken and have been a frequent visitor over the past year. I am a little nostalgic for the PhotoQuest period that was hosted by Flip over on heresomewhere.com (now defunct) but fortunately for her, real life cut in with a new family member and blogging is not on her [...]

It’s exceptionally “warm” in Geneva for the time of year and this has unusually consequences. I read this morning that there is a knock on effect on heating bills for example and in the garden the Viburnum is in flower and you can just “sense” the increase in pollen counts. David our son is allergic [...]

I have blogged in the past about journalism and journalists. My main point was that “News” only happens if there is a reporter to report it. This leads to news being concentrated according to where there is a large concentration of journalists. This is why we have had strong and prolonged focus of news as [...]