Bookclub
Making sense of our reading.
The Cloud
›
The Cloud is the trendy name for the process of computing in Web2.0 when all our data will be on the Internet - in the cloud. The advantages...
Seeing things.
›
There is an interesting talk broacast on ted.com which purports to share a powerful idea about ideas. It is recommendable because the speak...
The Net result.
›
When I wrote with a typewriter I was actually just copying from a handwritten script, principally because updating the text meant typing it ...
Sense of Direction
›
People have walked the Original Way or Camino Primitivo to Santiago for over a thousand years. It was opened by the Asturian king Alphonse I...
Advertising sense
›
In Spain there is a famous anisette drink which rose to advertising glory at the beginning of the 20th. century. In order to sell more of th...
WYSIWYG
›
My website editor would have me believe that 'What you see is what you get'. This is akin to asking me to believe that the website w...
Hope
›
The prevalent Christian representation of the cross is the depiction of a crucified dead man. There is often plenty of blood, always nail...
Hard and soft
›
In a recent interview Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun systems for 22 years, said that he and his company were fully behind the promotion of...
Colours and Humor
›
Your state of mind can be influenced through colour according to the geocromotherapy model. Red is an exciting stimulus. It capacitates and ...
No pain, no gain.
›
George Soros, one of the most successful stock market players, revealed one of the clues to his knack for earning easy money in a BBC interv...
Modelling
›
David Gordon gave a workshop course on Modelling in Whally, Lancashire, UK. It was to complement his book on the subject. This was not an in...
The Third Culture
›
In 'The two cultures, a scientific revolution' C.P. Snow noted that Arts and Science provided equally important ideas. However, some...
Two views
›
Humans have a tendency of trying to make sense of something by thinking of it from one of two basic viewpoints: detailed or general. At the ...
The flight of the bumble bee
›
You've probably seen many a bumblebee flying heavily around flowers in summertime in order to gather nectar and spread pollen for next y...
The Eye of the Beholder
›
When we humans look at something, a face, an object, a landscape, artwork ... we immediately judge its beauty. Now it is said that beauty is...
Common Sense
›
An Obituary of the late Mr. Common Sense 'Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for man...
Sight and bees
›
The sense of sight may well seem obvious - you look and you see. However, there are realities that we do not see as we look. It appears that...
Map & Territory
›
OK, so we all perceive the world in different ways and we construct individual maps of 'reality'. These internal maps are personal i...
Niaroo
›
'niaroo' might seem a rather senseless webname for a blog called sense, so here's what it means: Reverse the order of the letter...
‹
Home
View web version