The Tao of Neverness

A new reader of my blog recently asked me just what the hell all this metal, earth, water stuff was all about.

For those who haven’t read my first post, I agree, it can be confusing…



6 myths of creativity

Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile, head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, has done a 12-year study on creativity, and came up with some interesting conclusions.

You can read more about the methodology in this article from Fastcompany, but, in brief, the study came up with six main myths:

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MySQL Administrator

I finally took a look at MySQL Administrator earlier this month…



Full moon, naked in the Palmiet, and nine-to-fiving

It’s full moon, I’m in that slightly beyond overtired stage where I’m not going to fall asleep anyhow, so what better way to spend it than writing something.

Dorje, my beloved 14 month-old son has been getting louder and more restless at night, so much of my waking time I feel like an extra in Attack of the Zombies…



Texas Chainsaw President

One of my favourite writers, Walton Pantland, who writes Red Star Coven, has published a superb article on that old favourite of topics, the USA…



Fynbos restoration and the media

Well, not quite a march of the ents, but I spotted this snippet in the Argus:

The City of Cape Town has ordered the owners of two properties near Gordon’s Bay to rehabilitate their land after bulldozers ripped up endangered fynbos.

A small item, with even less detail than the original article



March of the Ents

I’ve just come back from 3 days in Betty’s Bay, a particularly beautiful part of the country. Apparently the coastal road between there and Gordon’s Bay has been voted the 4th most beautiful drive in the world according to some or other survey…



Launch of Wikinews

A potentially exciting development slipped through my radar in late November – the launch of Wikinews



Bush – Man of the Year

Time magazine can’t be doing its international readership any good with its recent choices as Person of the Year. Yes, who else but George W…



First spam

Hooray, my first comment spam…