Observations on the world and its inhabitants
It’s a question that’s been on my mind for quite some time. People go “I have many friends…or I only keep a few close friends“. Of course, defining what a friend is, is central to the question. However, friendship is the core issue and someone who maintains a real friendship is by definition a true ...
It was 00:30 2008-09-13 – when I decided to start writing this. Crazy? So what. I’ve been thinking about what changes people’s minds about things. For example what changes your mind about accepting something, believing something or doing something. Why the heck am I interested in that? Because of my statement that “The human mind ...
Will is the ability to direct and control one’s body and mind. Each of those underlined words is important. Will power is the strength with which one focuses the mind or controls the body. Normally we all have control and direction over some parts of our bodies and minds. This however, is not absolute. It ...
I’m amazed by how people rush around madly and actually create more work for themselves and more confusion for others. Here’s a quote from an email I received in response to an enquiry: "XXXX will authorise both tests. I should have made this clear to you in my response. I am rushing to catch up ...
You know many of us hold logical thought as something very prised. If something does not hang together logically, we’re likely to discredit it, have doubts about it and so on. We like to think that we are logical reasonable people. And in general we avoid people who are confused and illogical – simply because ...
In the UK the law is not only made up of Acts but by Regulations, which then drills down to quasi-legislative codes of practice. The DPA Acts deal with data and privacy relevant to individuals in two main ways. I’m not in a mood to give a lecture on this today. Those interested can Google ...
It’s happened so many times before in my life in England, that I provide clear and conspicuous information but people then ask me for clarification. I often wonder what the heck is going on. Here’s the situation. I send out letters to professional colleagues with my postal address, telephone contact details and email, clearly visible ...
I like Skype. I dare say I was one of the first people in the world to try Skype (www.skype.com). Now, you reading this might think ‘everybody knows about skpe!’. Well no – not everybody knows about skype. Half of the people I know are clueless about it and aren’t even inclined to try it. ...
I like Google Calendar. The people who invented this really put a lot of thought behind it. It took me about a year to get using it regularly. I now wish I hadn’t taken that long. Here’s how it benefits me: I can store my agenda securely online. I can have several agendas, some that ...
Yesterday something small occupied my mind. But it was something that repeatedly came to mind over the years. I got into my car and drove off as usual. About a minute down the road, I could see a tiny fly in the upper right corner of my windscreen. It was bumping its head on the ...
It’s been something I wanted to write about for some time – the feeling of wholeness. Like sometimes one of your prised objects doesn’t work well and you simply feel ‘not whole’. It could be something simple like a wrist watch. Or it could be your dishwasher. Well in the last few weeks two things ...
The banner picture is of one of my favourite places. It was a peaceful time when I was on vacation in 2005, at an exotic location. I could sit back and look up at the heavens and think about nothing. Yeah nothing. It is great to think about nothing. I was on a small atoll ...
Life rolls on. I write a great deal everywhere else but here. I’m not entirely sure why. So I’m trying to change that. I’m thinking perhaps that no one really looks on here. But in reality that should not matter, because it is not meant to be show. It is supposed to be my record ...
Sometimes I get confused using English, once I think too hard about it. Like today 22:00 I began wondering whether the possessive form of ‘one’ had an apostrophe. So I’m thinking, ” Is it ones'”? or “Is it one’s”? In fact I began to wonder how on earth I knew that ‘one’ was pronounced ‘won’. ...
Captain Walker
Captain Walker
