Category Archives: Internet
Living with less
Living a simpler life with less benefits self and others. I currently only have a limited one gigabyte of bandwidth a month as an internet connection, which means I have to be careful how I use it. Two thirds of the month of May is gone, and I have used up half my allocation. I …
Grow from challenges
Every challenge has a hidden blessing. Life is to be lived, new experiences, new challenges that keeps old age from the door of both body and mind. Perhaps for me life has become too challenging. I feel I am in a maze with many doors, behind each door is a chocolate cookie (good experience) or …
First day of Summer
Today marks the first day of Summer in Britain. It is May Day today, my ancestors call Beltane, the first day of British Summer. Although there is still a tinge of cold in the background it was a bright beautiful day today. I am back to blogging. The trees are now manifesting their verdant greenery, …
Technological progress
I embrace technology slowly, it is never my master. Whilst the Mediterranean world was using iron metal, my Celtic ancestors of Britain continued to use bronze, switching to iron hundreds of years later. Like my Celtic ancestors I am slow at embracing new technological tools, and like them I am the master of this technology, …
Bridges to prosperity
I review the purpose of this blog. (Warning potentially deep philosophy ahead!) In my town of Colchester the Celtic leader Cunobelin, the Romans considered the first king of Britain, struck an estimated one million gold coins. Upon some of these coins was the image of an ear of corn, a Celtic symbol of prosperity. In …
The storyteller
You can change the world through storytelling. In ancient times the storyteller was a highly valued member of society, on dark winter nights they entertained, but in ancient society they were a walking library of the history, laws, customs and spiritual philosophy of those people. The storyteller was the bard, poet or musician, protected by …
The fool that laughed
Speaking to fools is a waste of life. Recently I was drawn into a discussion about the future of humanity and sustainability. The person I spoke to laughed at me, it was kind of humiliating to be invited to share ideas and then have a person laugh at you. I usually only share my ideas …
Share content via a story
You can code a paradigm of beliefs and behaviours into a story. If you sow seeds on concrete it is likely you will get no harvest from it. If content are seeds, such as a blog posts, poetry or photography then planting them into suitable ground is vital to get anything from them. Imagine eating …
New design for a new era
Smartphones and tablets will transform the internet. The transformation of a well designed community website I visit to cope with smartphones and tablets hit home to me the coming revolution that these new gadgets will have on the internet. In 2012 about 20% of US internet traffic was said to be via smartphone or tablet, …
Will artificial intelligence exist?
Little progress in 60 years in artificial intelligence. A few years ago I made a rare visit to the cinema to see the Golden Compass. I disliked the film, but the concept of the animal companions called daemons that every individual had in the film excited me, I wanted one. These daemons were essentially the …
