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I’m on holiday now!
After waiting for more than 2 months I’m finally on my adventure holiday - off to a sailing trip around the Whitsunday Islands.
I’m sitting in Brisbane airport while writing this. I’ve been working out how to do things quickly and conveniently, in regards to blogging about my holiday and sharing photos that I take. I’m using my iPad instead of a laptop, so it’s just a little less functional than what I’m used to, but at the end of the day I think it’s quite a lot better - if you set it up properly.
I’m going to do status updates in Facebook about my holiday, sharing what I’m doing as I’m doing it. I’ll transfer photos from the camera to the iPad using a camera connector, using it as my photo storage device, and upload the best of them to Facebook each day (except for the 3 days I’ll be out on the Great Barrier Reef, as I don’t expect any mobile broadband reception out there).
When I get back home at the end of the holiday, I’ll transfer all my photos to Picasa, my standard online photo album site, and I’ll also collate all my Facebook updates and turn them into daily blog posts, comprised only of the updates. For the days that I’ll be out of reception range, I’ll just keep the updates as notes and put them into the blog at the end of the week.
I think that could turn out to be quite a nice idea.
What do you think?
Lessons to live by
ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
THREE. Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
FOUR. When you say, ‘I love you,’ mean it.
FIVE. When you say, ‘I’m sorry,’ look the person in the eye.
SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight.
EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone’s dreams. People who don’t have dreams don’t have much.
NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely.
TEN. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
ELEVEN. Don’t judge people by their relatives.
TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly.
THIRTEEN! …. When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, ‘Why do you want to know?’
FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
FIFTEEN. Say ‘bless you’ when you hear someone sneeze.
SIXTEEN.. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.
EIGHTEEN. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
NINETEEN. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
TWENTY. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
TWENTY- ONE. Spend some time alone.
A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart
"How you see your reality is a mirror of your inner reality. What happens around you reflects what’s happening within you. Do you see?
- Alan Howard"
- Alan Howard"
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I’ve been pondering this for a number of years now. I find a lot of frustration in my world around me, and I’ve been thinking about what that means for my world within me.
For me to be frustrated and angry with events around me, that are outside of my control, there is obviously a lot of frustration within me.
I think if I find the source of that frustration and anger and resolve it, I’ll resolve my frustrated and angry perception of the world…
What do you think?
There’s this girl…
She’s at work, and I’ve found her quite attractive. Tonight, as I was about to leave work, she did something odd.
I was packing up my stuff, and I noticed she did too. As I started to walk out, she finished packing and ran a bit to catch up with me as I walked down the corridor, and we walked out together. We exchanged in a bit of small talk before parting ways.
Running to catch up with me… That was pretty odd, don’t you think?
Microsoft will be launching the completely revamped Internet Explorer 9 at an event in San Francisco on September 15, but will it be enough to turn the tide in the war for web browser supremacy?
It was 2017. Clans were governing America. Clans organized around families and individuals who possessed stocks of food, bullion, guns and ammunition.
The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st century had resulted in the police becoming militarized and unaccountable.
As society broke down, the police became warlords. The state police broke apart, and the officers were subsumed into the local forces of their communities. The newly formed tribes expanded to encompass the relatives and friends of the police.
