Month: September 2014
Images – survival.
These images immortalising people will remain so long as this race survives. Sad.
I’m not a this sort of person
I often hear things of that nature from people e.g. “I’m not a computer person”, or “I’m not a driven by money sort of person”, or “I’m not a Nigela Lawson fan”, or “I’m not a Paxman person”, or “I’m not a Russell Brand person” or “I don’t like ToryRead More
Nano.. Nano!!
I’ve been thinking about my use of the words ‘the humans’. It seems to suggest that I’m an observer of them – and not connected to their kind. For sure I do feel that way a lot of the time. But looking back as to how I came to stepRead More
Dislike of intensity
I’ve been thinking again – as I do – over the last few days, about another phenomenon amongst the humans. I will reference this back to myself because I draw on my experience of how people interact with me. But what is this ‘intensity’ to which I refer? I alwaysRead More
Chess – how I became good at it.
I was thinking about when I was much younger in my early to mid-teens, when I used to play Chess. It was a most intriguing game for a number of reasons that I don’t intend to go into. I became quite good at it and made at least one NationalRead More
Upgrade postponed for today.
I’ve been trying to upgrade the site for a new theme. It’s not been easy as the new theme requires much tweaking. The strategy is to return to the theme of the last few weeks, then intermittently take the site offline to tweak the new theme. There’s no rush withRead More
Sync-ing laptop or desktop to Google Cloud Drive
If the title of this post appears to be gobbledeegook to you, then you know what to do next. No? Google!!! Google Drive is an online cloud storage drive provided by Google. I pay $USD 9.99/mth for a 1 Terabyte of space in the cloud – and tough if someRead More
The Futures game: exploiting the gap.
My venture into ‘derivatives’ – that evil thing associated with some ‘criminal’ bloke’- has led me to think a lot more about how we assess the future. By way of introduction, futures contracts – in the simplest form – are meant to agree prices for various things in the futureRead More