This week Nicole Daedone gave a talk at TEDx San Francisco on orgasmic meditation (embedded below). Orgasmic Meditation existed on the fringes of San Francisco society until 2009, when an article in the New York Times shone the spotlight on her retreat centre. It received further widespread attention through Tim Ferris’s book, The 4-Hour Body.… Continue reading Orgasmic Meditation
Inside Job, ideology and regulatory contradictions
I’ve just finished watching Inside Job, the award-winning documentary showing at the Encounters Film Festival. It’s a good documentary, part-comedy as well the way some of the interviews with the bank executives and consultants have been edited. It got a round of applause at the end, and is worth seeing. I want to note two… Continue reading Inside Job, ideology and regulatory contradictions
Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu and Mint
I run Ubuntu 10.10 on my primary machine, a now-aged Lenovo Y510. I used to upgrade the minute I could get my hands on a newer release, but the novelty has worn off, and I can’t spare the time these days to get my system back to how it should be, customising and/or fixing things,… Continue reading Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu and Mint
African language Wiktionary Update
Wikipedia never ceases to amaze me. I remember meeting a teenage Alaskan editing on the Malagasy Wikipedia. Thanks perhaps to those long wintery nights, he was learning languages like some collect stamps, and Malagasy, being an interesting language, had attracted his attention. Updating sports results as quickly as possible seems to be as popular as… Continue reading African language Wiktionary Update
Faster online video
I don’t watch too many online videos – mainly because I’m impatient, and watching videos is…. just… so… slow… It’s not (just) that I’m counting the seconds but also that I get bored listening to people speak slowly, especially when they’re belabouring the point. Text is far preferable as I can race through text very… Continue reading Faster online video
On Gratitude
I wrote a post for the Ethical Co-op newsletter briefly mentioning gratitude. Since it’s short, I’ll quote it here in full: Gratitude is a key to happiness. When we are more grateful, we are happier. Gratitude is also much like love. It’s easy to apply conditionally – to be grateful for wonderful food, or wonderful… Continue reading On Gratitude
The Ethical Bank
South African banking is dominated by the big four, Absa, First National Bank, Nedbank and Standard Bank, with little Capitec trailing in very distant fifth place. If you’re looking at opening a savings account, Capitec are the only one where the account has even a chance of living up to the name, with the others… Continue reading The Ethical Bank
Bearing Soul
Last weekend I was lucky enough to be invited to Bearing Soul, billed as “An enviro-mental Exploration through Song, Music, Story and Heart”. This wasn’t the usual entertainment, a show at a theatre, a film. It was a friend, Dan Tree, doing just what he claimed. Flashing us a glimpse of his essence, his heart… Continue reading Bearing Soul
African language Wikipedia update
There’s been some momentum recently in the local Wikimedia world. The process for forming a local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation was jumpstarted at a workshop at Wits University in August last year, and is now nearing the final stages. The legal documentation is close to being complete, and will be submitted shortly to the… Continue reading African language Wikipedia update
Bliss is…
Lying on a log in the drizzle beneath the cement factory Dodging dogs staring at the full moon on a Nyanga street Dylan on the empty highway, the truck in the slow lane ahead inching slowly closer Tai chi on the damp grass, my chair-bound legs awakening Related Posts: Blissful lucuma Elements of Health –… Continue reading Bliss is…