• TED.com is much too good to keep a secret. If you’ve not come across it before you have a cornucopia in front of you waiting to discovered and explored. TED.com is website full of mind changing lectures, videoed at TED conferences around the world, in which experts and sages talk about Technology, Education and Design.

    There is a TED app for the iPhone too, which means I often start the day with a quick lecture in bed with my cup of tea before I get going.

    I’d like to share the lecture I watched this morning by Devdutt Pattanaik, called East vs. West — the myths that mystify. Devdutt is an engaging speaker who very simply explains the difference between western and Indian views of life and why the west finds it hard to understand. (I get the feeling that the east understands the west only too well!)

    Here is a master storyteller at work, proving what I always believe, that no amount of preaching is as effective as a simple story well told.

    [ted id=686]

  • Just in case you got confused yesterday, Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that deals in the stuff that isn’t physical or natural, that transcends the obvious stuff that we can see feel and touch. Kind of – beyond the physical. So it’s really about the stuff that only exists in the mind.

    You could say that everything exists in the mind. You are a figment of my imagination therefore you are a mere piece of metaphysical puffery. Unless you know different.

    Learn a new word every day.
    Repeat it and remind yourself what it means at least three times in a day.
    Try to use the word in conversation or writing today.
    Get a dictionary and look words up.

  • I’ve finally managed to move all my domains over to a new ISP. I got so fed up with my old one. They kept slapping on extra fees for nonsense that you get free everywhere else.
    It’s not easy – or rather they make it very difficult to move away from them. You really have to keep your wits about you.

    Any way it’s all done. I visited Class 2 at Clearwell School this morning to talk to them about Ricky Rocket ready for their big Space theme. My website was up on the board, but not working. Having such a spidery site, it’s hard checking it all works, and no one has sent me link failure emails like they used to in the old days.

    Once my site was special because it was the only one out there. No it is just another author site. If it doesn’t work there’ll be another somewhere. Makes you wonder if it is worth all the ridiculous amount of time and effort!