Strangely Perfect

Exploring the Simultaneous Nature of Cause & Effect Star Trek: The Next Generation: Finale, Episode – “All Good Things…” I’ve just watched the double episode finale to the TNG Picard series just after the cyclists finished their ascent of Mont Ventoux in this years Tour de France.  It was “All Good Things…”(see link, link & [...]

Computer Shopper Interview with Home Office Dawinderpal Sahota at ‘Computer Shopper’ magazine, part of the Dennis Publishing organisation, has published a fascinating interview that the magazine had with a UK Home Office rep on the subject of the government’s policy towards tackling child abuse websites. ‘Computer Shopper’ gave all questions in advance so that the [...]

Who Needs Friends like Rosenbaum? During my recent visit to Austria I picked up a little tit-bit from “The Rough Guide to Austria” about the composer Haydn who ‘lived‘ in the town of Eisenstadt where I was staying, for some years.  My sarcastic emphasis is because by all accounts, Haydn’s opinion of Eisenstadt and it’s [...]

I took this picture during an IT conference near Redditch a couple of weeks ago.  This has been cropped to show the true form of the Lotus Flower growing from the mud of a pond on a golf course. The Lotus is symbolic in Nichiren’s Buddhism because it represents the simultaneity of cause and effect [...]

Who said what? Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. What then does myo signify? It is simply the mysterious nature of our life [...]

Holly and Christina sent me a picture of their cat, and assuming that it hasn’t been photoshop-ed, looks like it belongs in the Guinness Book of Records, or something. Evelyn mentioned something about it but it just thought she was yabbering on as is her want. If anyone can tell me what sort it is [...]