Ideas Galore

As ever, most of this work aims at giving me quicker access to resources, if you wanna share 'em go ahead, but the intent remains making my own life easier!

I have all sorts of stuff to compile, and collate, etc, but with the Gregorian New Year getting everyone eager to celebrate a new number (007!) I thought I'd throw in this 'smal world' map of Bucky's view of the world (he reckons we already have enough, if we only distributed it better, and he remained optimistic that we could work our way out of apparent crisis...although we do have to wake up, of course.

I don't know why Christian governments can show such glee at killing someone (I felt pleased to hear two Christian peace envoys - who got kidnapped in Iraq - saying they did not want to witness against their captors if that meant they would get executed, and that they would have retrained Saddam Hussein as a bricklayer, so he could help rebuild Iraq!) Too late for compassion (even for 'evil' people) so I leave you with an image that says it all, to me, about stupidity or the banality of evil, and how it mostly seems related to ignorance.

Some kind of reason for changing...

• I wanted this blog to give me the excuse to update my information and resources, and perhaps make them more attractive.
• My ramshackle website grew and grew as I learned new things, and it became my sandpit for messing about and trying things. I never really thought of it as a publication. However, as in design terms it never graduated beyond the use of a Front Page Template (I found 'content' more interesting) it now looks very old-fashioned, but it would represent an immense amount of work to rebuild it, so I figured I might tease it apart slowly.
• For instance - I used one page as a place to dump interesting links, but I never made it look very interesting! I called it a Things to Do on a Wet Afternoon kind of a page.
• I have reconnected with my scattered family again, so I feel quite pleased that I have tried to put at least a little detail of the family online, although I know I have left lots out. And I recently did a family tree (which you can see in the old blog) which could get added in there.
• I keep intending to compile a book/autobiography, etc - but I suspect the website stole quite a lot of the energy intended for that - and maybe made a hard copy book quite redundant. I still like books however (to read in the bath) and maybe others do, too. Although, having said that, Miles Hochstein seems to think I have made a good start on an audio-visual presentation of a life... If you go to his site you can read other people's lives, and see his own good example of how to go about it...

What a hectic few years

I have really enjoyed all my 'real life' friends over many years now, but rather than become boring once I stopped travelling I got into the Web, and have now many friends I haven't met in 'real time' or 'real life' or whatever. As well as keeping my brain stimulated with research, with new viewpoints, and a lot of other wordy stuff, I have also spent a lot of time in picture research, to try to prevent dry posts from becoming unreadable. I realise that some copyright issues arise with such reckless collaging of other people's work, but I can't see any change happening any time soon, apart from finding other ways to reward popular artists...

My computer seems filled with strange, evocative and eclectic images...

Ever-increasing intelligence (perhaps our only hope)

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Increasing Intelligence