The meadows is being abused through over use for corporate events. I walked through the rain this morning passed two circus big tops (Lady Boys of Bangkok and Chinese State Circus) plus a fairground joined on to them with a series of big rides. They are erecting corporate type marques at two other places. There…
Read More Meadows ManglingSo I start writing iZendo from scratch and make quite good progress in simplifying it down. Just four pages and some AJAX to update the lists. All looks good till my crisis of faith! Could I do this with twitter? Could I ‘just’ have a Twitter feed that is the virtual zendo? It would certainly…
Read More Twitter as a virtual zendo?Expressing gratitude makes me feel good. I believe others get similar pleasure form saying thanks. It could be that we have this response hardwired by our genes or that it is beaten in by our parents as a kind of important social meme. Either way it appears to lead to a more harmonious society so…
Read More Thank youThis is the first post from my iPhone using the iphone app – but then edited on my desktop – I am not that fast at typing on an iPhone yet! I found that the problem I was having with connecting the iPhone was not with the iPhone WordPress app (v1.0) but with my WordPress…
Read More iPhone first postI have regular fantasies that arise when I am meditating – a little like recurring dreams. I am sure most meditators have similar distractions. The really cleverly distracting fantasies are about Buddhism and meditation. The train of thought goes from thinking of meditation to thinking about meditation to planning and scheming and rehearsing conversations and…
Read More iZendo – a virtual meditation group?I had hoped to post to the blog using iPhone but the iPhone app just keeps crashing on me. It won’t even connect. Many people seem to be having problems so I hope it is bugging some one with the time to fix it.
Read More iPhone and WordPress no play yet.The thing about blogs is they are for the author not the reader. If by chance you find this useful bully for you.
Read More Hello BlogWhat’s the Problem? Imagine you are a biologist looking at a group of organisms. You may be interested in these organisms because they occupy similar ecological niches or the same geographical region or for any other number of reasons. In order to study these organisms you need to gather data from different sources. As you…
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