This week's links (weekly)

• A Personal Statement From Iain M Banks | SFX

  This is very sad news indeed.

  tags: blog

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Time

I used to have so much time and I used it so poorly. Now I have so little that I have to find ways of maximising the little I have available. Writing seems a distant and nostalgic dream, forgotten for a very pleasant but very busy present. I need someone to make me some time.



Note: I am not full of scotch. It's beer.

This week's links (weekly)

• BBC News - The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'

• Official Google Reader Blog: Powering Down Google Reader

  This is really bad news. This appears to be Google dumping the only tool they really have for an open format in favour of...what? RSS is still useful and relevant it quite honestly doesn't matter that it's a geek thing, it powers how things like iTunes and podcasts work, and that's not just a geek thing.

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This week's links

• Making Rope (The old fashioned way) - YouTube
• mini. Quiet Babylon | The Singularity Already Happened; We Got Corporations
  Hmmm Corporations as an invading, all conquering memetic AI infection. As a theory it has legs.
• Eat a Banana to Remedy Over-Caffeination
  Just fucking NO!!!!!! It took me ages to get this caffeinated why the bloody hell would I then eat the most foul fruit commonly available?
• Lorem Ipsum - All the facts - Lipsum generator
  Because you should know this.
  • Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32

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The quiet moments...

... Are where I draw breath. When no-one else is awake in the house or when there is ten minutes between tasks or appointments. That time in which one can have a cup of coffee and collect disparate thoughts together. They make the rest of the day tolerable.

Rather than filing the day with activity from start to end these times feel like they need to be valued as things in themselves to foster balance and focus. Have a cup of tea rather than making that phonecall that isn't really that urgent. Instead of filling these times by grabbing your mobile and jumping on Facebook or tweeting something no-one will read, look around, take a deep breath and just do nothing. Feel how the thoughts slowly start to flow back? Good, isn't it?