I have been involved in numerous blogging sites over the last several years.

I have always favoured those which are set up more like "social" sites.  By that I mean those sites which not only have facility to reply to things written by others but which have some sort of common "stream" which displays current and latest activity on the site. This way you at least get some sort of public exposure, which allows others to "see" you and get some idea of what you are about. And so if they…

It never really abates.

But it does get affected by other things.  There was a time when I would easily share extremely personal information online. No more.

Time and experience have caused me to be more selective and careful. Call it self protection I suppose.  I have learned that there exist many people in this world who think nothing of crossing what one might perceive as a moral line which should not be crossed - and in fact will do so simply to assuage their own ego or…

Ever since I busied myself with work, I've had little time for other things that I would like to do such as volunteering, projects, blog post, vlogs, and some hobbies of mine. Working sucks. I used to tell people that we have everything so there is no reason to be unhappy. Truth is, we do have everything, but we have no time to enjoy what we have because we are working all the time to pay bills, to stay afloat financially, and loads of other reasons. Working hours and hours in a cubicle. No…

OMFG - why did it take me so long to find this!?  

First of all, I love Google Chrome as a web browser, for so many reasons, and I'm not going to go into all of those here.  I was a Firefox fan before, {and would still recommend Firefox to people as an alternative to I.E.}  but I fell in love with Chrome last year because of its speed and the little "extras"…

I have recently done some research on ancient Sumerian texts translated by a man who's name I fail to remember. The text talks about an ancient race from a non physical world that encountered a problem of epic proportions. To fix this problem they needed to understand more about the physical world, which they cannot observe or interact in because the physical world has certain dimensional boundaries, so they infused their celestial selves into a physical form. The belief was that when they…

So I’m in at work early on a Monday morning.  As is usual there is hardly anyone here but a few start to trickle in as we pass 7am.

Without thinking about it too much I find myself plugging in my hard drive and putting in the earphones and I start listening to something new I downloaded last week. In this case it’s the latest Lamb Of God album (no I’m not a metal head particularly – I like a vast array of music depending upon my mood…..).

Anyway – eventually the guy I work with…

Today I feel kind of ashamed of the human race.

Thinking about all the fucked up things which have gone on and which continue to go on.

The raping of the planet.  The polluting of the planet.  The irresponsible use of the raw materials we rape from the planet to make all manner of unnecessary things including weapons with which to kill each other.  The destruction of the natural habitats of the planet and the resultant extinction of so many species.

If a visiting alien…

full circle, we've come to tie together the unifying ends of science with the suspicious ends of the mystics and we now nod together, acknowledging the oneness of things.  We must comb through what we've mastered and pull back to understand the significance of all these separate seeming things within the nutshell of our grand self.

I do like a good rant.

Correction - I like to write a good rant.  well, I suppose I don't mind reading one either - as long as I can relate to it - which is often not the case.

I have nothing in particular to rant about. I just feel like ranting.

The list of things which I COULD rant about is pretty endless.   But I don't see much point in doing such endlessly.  It is just that sometimes I feel a need to expel some of the annoyance and irritation that builds up within…

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So I've been working on my sharecraft campaign for a while, tiny.cc/NCUKsharecraft, and the next few things I had been working on were producing my personal youtube videos that promote the campaign, producing a video documentary about the campaign after it's over, commenting on it's success and moving from this to a new campaign I've begun work on called "Gamers give a S#!T…

Lately I have come to the realisation that I have a lot of fear. I am afraid. Not of anything specific but of various imagined possibilities. Of all those terrible things that COULD happen or that MIGHT happen (but which probably won’t or which have only a slight chance of happening).

My mind and what it does with such thoughts is a constant source of difficulty for me.

The instinctive desire for survival which is inherent in any sentient being and which probably served…

I am feeling some reticence at the idea of contributing to yet another blog site - yet I am the one who came here and signed up.  No one had a gun to my head. Yet I think it is important to acknowledge my feelings about it.

So - what are my reservations?  A complex question to answer.  Perhaps the best way is to say that I have been active on numerous different blogging sites in the past - mostly on those which are more oriented towards social interaction/friendship/conversation etc.…

“As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.” 

~Alan Watts

Has anyone typed out a whole blog post/email/text message to simply hit cancel?  Or even held down the backspace key till every word and every letter is gone?  Or think of a idea to share with someone to simply keep it inside?  I…

The site is mostly complete. It's almost as far as I can get it without investing more monetarily, something I cannot afford to do. It's at the point where all I should be doing is writing articles and producing content for people to view, read, discuss and enjoy.



Yet I can't bring myself to write a lot of the articles I want to, mostly because I get distracted by thinking of other projects, partly because I'm genuinely busy with real-world things, partly because I want to…

“We can speculate whether the relationship of the mind to the brain represents an emergent quality. Individual brain-cells have no emotion, or memory, or self-consciousness. Consciousness arises through the interactions of billions of brain cells, and once it exists, there is a downward causation: the new structural level of consciousness begins to determine the behavior of the components, as the recently discovered brain functions that are summarized under the term…

After being away for a while I have returned and after all the recent privacy issues in the US I found a project on Indiegogo that I certainly plan on supporting. I know Reese reads these so Reese this is a plea to you and the rest of the community I know you are busy raising the 1 million for Save the Children, but this is a good project to possibly help support. In a nutshell this guy who has been fighting for privacy rights wants to start his own provider that will provide an internet…

 Lately, I've been feeling like I've been through a rollercoaster of emotion. In other words, I've been feeling emotionally strained. Maybe it's how I think too much about things. I don't know source of these emotions that I feel. So I decided to keep track of the emotions I feel on a daily basis. I would feel a little bit of joy and sometimes sadness, which are dominated by anxiousness. A majority of them fall under Anger: irritation, bitterness, frustration.

 Anger is tiring.…

So here we are.  I haven't written on here for quite sometime.  I don't know why really; Maybe laziness. It's weird reading through my old blogs and bringing back such memories.  So much has happened since then.  Strange thing about it though I went in the opposite direction in which I was trying so hard to go.  Well, looks like I have to start again.  Maybe this is what we are supposed to do?  Who knows. 

Let the path of life continue.  

Dan

I am going to share some ideas of possible rules/principals one can adopt to live an awesome life. 

1. Live only in the Now. I noticed my thoughts are always going to the past and to the future. Yet the present is where life happens. The mind plays tricks and makes you miss your past greatness, but in the missing you lose chance to have more great experiences in the present moment. I say lets record the past, but after recording DO NOT THINK ABOUT PAST AT ALL. Same with future. It is…

I stumbled across this Al-Jazeera page recently - 

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/african-aid-helpful-or-hazardous-0022175 

which posed the question of whether foreign aid is really helping the people in Africa, or hurting them.

The page includes a lot of information and related videos, the Headliner of them all being the recording of a…