The problem with Tweeted Wisdom....
Like many of us on Twitter, I follow a number of Twitter users who post aphorisms, quotes, sayings, etc. A sort of electronic review of the 'Wisdom Literature' of the last 2000 years. This can be pr…
Tagged: philosophy
The wee small hours....
Even when I have something worth worrying about, I have to say that it takes a lot of worry to stop me sleeping; having said that, I doubt there's a night goes by without me waking up at some point. …
The Last Temptation of Mankind?
One of my professional interests is in Artificial Intelligence - AI. I think I've had an interest in the simulation of human personality by software for as long as I've been interested in programming…
Saying Sorry, Contrition, Repentance and the Scorpion
Earlier this weekI commented on the words of John Healey, the Housing Minister who said that repossession is not always a bad thing. As has been pointed out, the 46,000 people repossessed in the last…
A 21 hour working week? Earth calling nef....
I don't like to admit it in public, but I kind of like my work. I'm self-employed, in IT. I probably do around 35 hours a week 'client facing' work and probably about 10 hours a week grubbing up new…
Burying the bad news - it's what Terror Alert Statuses are for!
I appreciate that I may be being overly cynical here, and will certainly feel a total idiot if the recent escalation of the UK's Terror Alert Status actually was based in one of the threats reported h…
Moral relativism and evil
moralityFirst of all, for anyone unaware of the news stories about the two pre-teen thugs from Edlington who tortured and abused two little boys, here's a link to the story. Now, I passed a comment o…
Enough toys for the boys (and girls)?
I'll be honest; I'm rarely rising the bleeding edge of technology. Despite being professionally involved in IT and electronics since 1982, it's safe to say that I'm not one of the guys who gets calls…
What goes in to a blog?
I recently came across a couple of articles about blogging. Well, I'll be honest - they were in my Twitter feed and I took a look at them to see what other people's views were on the subject of conten…
Thou shalt not steal...at least not from the corner shop.
Father Tim Jones, a parish priest from a Church in York, raised a bit of a rumpus recently by suggesting that if you were desperately needy it was OK to shoplift - at least form the larger stores, whe…