ideas

I have been cogitating - always a dangerous thing to do.  The subject is safety.  In the past safety was a rare and precious commodity.  For example, until the advent of the police force in England it was not safe to travel on the highways without armed guards & people could

The question of whether or not people of our time are resilient enough to deal with adversity like previous generations was a topic of discussion at one of the Girl Geek Dinner's last year.  It reminded me to dig out these favourite quotations. "We are what we

Here in a TED talk Susan Blackmore discusses how humanity has spawned a new kind of meme. She argues for the teme, which spreads itself via technology, and invents ways to keep itself alive.  This is a very provocative argument and is worth a look. http://video.ted.com/assets/

All those top 50 or top 100 Twitter user lists that enumerate the so-called Twitterati sort of annoy me. In fact, they annoy me so much that, a while back, I created Yet Another Twitter Top 100 List . How do you get on this list?  You just add yourself

I've been a big fan of telling as many people as possible about my goals so it is harder for me to back out of them.  Also getting people to join in with me is very helpful.  It is encouraging when there is more than one person working