Observations on life. Pretention may occur, apologies.
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July 22, 2008 • 4:51 pm
One of the most important lessons you can learn while making progress is learning to recognise the progress you’ve already made. Without realising that you’ve made progress, you’ll get discouraged and stop before you reach your goal.
You won’t make progress in the way that you think you will. Progress comes in from the side, and [...]
April 25, 2008 • 12:15 pm
Hey, whenever you find a clever program or website or some piece of technology (sat navs, iPhone, whatever), always remember that the computer is not clever. The computer is a dumb machine. It has the same amount of intelligence as a rock, it’s just a bunch of switches. Literally. That is all a computer is, [...]
January 23, 2008 • 9:36 am
I was thinking the other day about the childhood game of ‘it’. This is the game where you run around chasing each other. One person is ‘it’ — i.e. they have to chase people and touch them, whereupon the person they touch becomes ‘it’ and must pass find some other unwilling victim to whom to [...]
September 07, 2007 • 9:42 am
People often hear words like “grace” and “mercy” and associate them with weakness. In fact, grace and mercy are not ‘less’ than justice in any way; they are more. It is bigger to forgive than it is to seek justice. There is nothing weak, unmanly or feeble about forgiveness. Forgiveness is definately not the soft [...]
August 20, 2007 • 10:32 am
I have just made a discovery. It happened when I was typing, and some would call it a typo but I really don’t buy into all that. When I make a mistake in typing, I like to think it happened for a reason. Otherwise I just wouldn’t be able to cope.
Anyway, I have discovered … [...]
March 24, 2007 • 12:57 pm
I don’t mean things like the combustion engine or the secret of flight. Things like that come about because someone sees something obvious like an explosion and then goes “how can I harness that power”; or they watch a bird and say, “Hm, that looks like fun, let’s try it.”
I mean things like coffee, and [...]
January 26, 2007 • 8:44 am
Be warned: the first couple of lines of this post are covered in horrible sticky crap that looks like pretention. In fact it is not. What appears to be pretention is merely lack of writing skill.
Thank you. This has been a public message on behalf of Mark Kenny.
It occurred to me today that a novelist [...]
January 09, 2007 • 6:09 pm
Poetry is a funny thing. I kinda hate it.
But also, I really like it, some of it.
For the most part, I find it hard to understand. I think maybe I pay too much attention to the words. Or maybe I read the words like prose, which of course makes it sound disjointed and crap. I [...]
December 11, 2006 • 1:08 pm
Microsoft’s genius was to get a computer into everyone’s home. Apple’s genius was to make everybody love their computers like they love their pets.
December 07, 2006 • 1:45 pm
Caught the tail-end of a programme called Supporting Acts as I was eating my lunch today. It focussed on 2 people working “behind the scenes” in TV. The first was a set builder, who enjoyed his job immensely, and the second was a stunt woman called Daniella Da Costa (who also enjoyed her job immensely).
The [...]