Thursday, 8 December 2011

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

How to defend Earth from asteroids

Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids Good News and bad news

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Kevin Bales: How to combat modern slavery | Video on TED.com

Kevin Bales: How to combat modern slavery | Video on TED.com

I worked for Kevin on a Legacy campaign many years ago - Top Man - Confident, calming and infectiously enthusiastic I would like to know what he thinks about the recent discovery of slaves in Traveler sites in the UK

Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Nouriel Roubini Blog: I Thought A Few Months Ago That The Perfect Storm ...

Nouriel Roubini Blog: I Thought A Few Months Ago That The Perfect Storm ...: I thought a few months ago that the perfect storm would be 2013. But now, the economic weakness in the U.S., euro zone and the U.K. is front...

Sunday, 14 August 2011

Marc Faber Blog: I’ve Been In This Business For 40 Years And On Man...

Marc Faber Blog: I’ve Been In This Business For 40 Years And On Man...: "I’ve been in this business for 40 years and on many occasions, nothing made sense to me. I think the Treasury market is another example of a..."

Marc Faber Blog: People Should Be Encouraged To Save More, And The ...

Marc Faber Blog: People Should Be Encouraged To Save More, And The ...: "From 1981 to 2007, we have an economy that was living beyond its means. As a result of continued debt accumulation, GDP was higher than woul..."

Miller's Genuine Draft: Ron Paul Places Second at Ames, New Mises Article,...

Miller's Genuine Draft: Ron Paul Places Second at Ames, New Mises Article,...: "Back from the week long conference/ending program gathering in D.C. and the markets have been incredibly volatile to say the least.  Though ..."

Sunday, 7 August 2011

Peter Schiff Blog: Video Interview On BBC Newsnight

Peter Schiff Blog: Video Interview On BBC Newsnight: "Video interview on BBC Newsnight, August 4. Peter Schiff`s comments on the economy, stock markets, politics and gold. Schiff is the renow..."

The more confident Peter appears the more scared I get

Sunday, 24 July 2011

Miller's Genuine Draft: Gary North Tears Apart the Idea that Independence ...

Miller's Genuine Draft: Gary North Tears Apart the Idea that Independence ...: "Though it would initially seem that July 4th should be a day celebrated by libertarians, Gary North puts that notion to rest today in his fa..."

Monday, 6 June 2011

Lilou Bonny Probst-Cox

Lilou Bonny Probst-Cox entered the world 11:59 6th June 2011 3.4kg
Mother and baby doing fine
Parents Jenny and Ralph and big brother Lennon all very happy and proud

Sunday, 5 June 2011

Drink loosens the tongue, it doesn't write the script

Genius Ben Douglas: "Drink loosens the tongue, it doesn't write the script"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394421/Sorry-James-drink-loosens-tongue-doesn-t-write--script-says-TV-presenter-Ben-Douglas-called-N-word-times.html

Sunday, 3 April 2011

The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See


This guy makes an assumption that efforts to fix Global Climate change would be successful - but other than that this is good game theory in practice.

Monday, 21 March 2011

Semmelweis reflux

Semmelweis reflex is a bias whereby people have a tendency to reject new information and evidence because it goes against the existing paradigms.

To a certain extent this is another form of resistance to change.

I get Semmelweis reflux. Sometimese when I talk about best practice the notion is often rejected because of resistance to change; and as a result a little bit of sick comes up.

Sunday, 6 March 2011

Thoughts on taxation and pricing

I'm thinking about the new system of taxation. 50% administered by the state, or charged by the state and 50% set locally either by councils or by county councils. Instead of government subsidising local councils, local councils will charge the taxes and pass 50% back to central government this would enable areas to compete against each other on taxation basis.

I'm also thinking about systems of pricing for tax or public services whereby price increases have to be announced well in advance with a maximum of 1% over inflation depending on how many years away. So 5% above inflation would have to be announced 5 years in advance.

The question is would this improve price stability or make it worse?

KM & overcoming resistance to change

I am not trying to say that implementing knowledge management as a process is entirely about overcoming resistance to change; but, I am saying that it is about 90% of the coming resistance to change.

Sunday, 20 February 2011

Change Shaman

Coming up with the name Change Shaman for website and possibly business, has left me feeling quite excited and ready to book my domain name and website space almost immediately that. I'll have to conquer the time being and give it more thought.

Pancake mix picture test

The pancake mix is sitting, resting, ready to make pancakes for breakfast. And this seems to be a good opportunity to test the picture uploading on blogspot.



Saturday, 19 February 2011

ultimate stealth tax

Statistically speaking this could be the biggest scandal. £80bn over 12 year is the ultimate stealth tax. http://j.mp/h5PZ8N Pension theft

Friday, 18 February 2011

Snowwhite

I'm looking forward to watching Disney's Snowwhite for the first time.

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Eyes hurting

My eyes are hurting i think it is from using iphone and I wonder if I need an iPad?

Or do I just need to get over it?

Blogger+ crashed

Blogger+ crashed and I lost my post even though the draft was saved. Very annoying.

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Is this life imitating art?

Is this life imitating art http://j.mp/hDdxOh or the other way around?

Destruction of beauty

I am very concerned about the story of the destruction of the Mediterranean seabed. Of course, it might be overstated, it could be areas that the repair themselves. But, to me this story seems to be about externalities someone gets to make money destroying the natural habitat. This is because producing sustainable energy is hard work and not tax incentivised. And destroying the earth is easy and often tax free.

Wikileaks

I love wiki leaks. I love the Internet. When I joined the civil service in 2003, my manager told me "do not write anything down unless you would be willing to anyone in the world to see it". This was good advice and I have followed it. Other people could learn to follow this advice.

knowledge management

My skills and knowledge management of improving dramatically as is my understanding. And while I'm improving can help others improve. The importance of capturing, sharing, exploiting, developing knowledge.

Communication

My skills and communications have been improving dramatically, since I've been able to implement: thinking on your feet, pyramid principle, made to stick, and understanding the importance of the know feel do strategy of communications.

Website design

I want to design the website to be easy and intuitive to use, as well as professional inviting and fun. I want it to be easy to navigate with use of colours and pictures and reusable contents. I also want it to be a way of people to navigate around my mind, but also to inspire. On top of that, I do want people to feedback and give comments so that I can further improve what I'm doing.

Error checking

I have to be over to check and double check what I'm doing when I publish. There's a big problem being dyslexic making so many mistakes were writing, even when using voice dictation.

Nearvous

As long as nobody is watching my blogspot I can use it as a cut-and-paste brain dump. Whereas I am a bit nervous about doing that and twitter at the moment.

Better than twitter

The big advantage of using my blogspot rather than twitter is that very few people see my blogspot and I can make adjustments later.

Using my iPhone

I may be up to do quite a bit of stuff here with my iPhone. I can dictate into dragon on my iPhone, which works very well. And then, post thoughts and ideas into my blogspot.

What do I want to say?

I want to get down everything from my past acting, dancing, as well as my corporate skills which I want to sell: Communications, knowledge management, managing change.

Building a website

I am finding building a website are very steep learning curve. Aside from realising how much information is in my head; using Rapidweaver is not as easy as I had hoped.

Sunday, 30 January 2011

knowledge management benefits

Not only does knowledge management add value to the work you are doing but it shows in tangible ways value you are adding to the wider business.



Thursday, 27 January 2011

iPhone works

This is really looking good, so my Dragon works, I will be out a blog at least from my iPhone.

Test

This is a test sent from my iphone

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Happy again

I figured out the Rapid weaver redirect - they call it "offsite" so i can point to my blog - and learn some geeky tricks

Time for bed

Crash

Just as I said I was enjoying Rapid Weaver - it crashed

1st attempt with Rapid Blog

Obviously this is just a test to see how Rapid Blog from Loghound Works. But I can't really get going until Macspeech fix the software - so a lot of this will be moaning about Macspeech. - I have complained to the CEO of nuance.

Nuance bought Macspeech and offered a £40 upgrade - which i an many people like me took up - now I have paid £40 to lose voice recognition!

We all thought that Dragon for Mac would work like Dragon for Windows - I'm thinking I need to go back to windows - but at least I am enjoying Rapid Weaver