Strangely Perfect

Introduction This is a small investigation into mail lists and scammy companies.  Some companies are fine, but I always go by the adage to judge a man by the company he keeps.  This shows how lists spread far beyond their initial purpose when you sign up for something.  It also shows how the privacy policies [...]

Nichiren …if the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds. – Nichiren Daishonin, from his writings, page 4.  Written [...]

Workers and ordinary intelligent users of the Post Office Royal Mail system (“the post”), must be very worried by the latest news about the holistic vertically integrated business that was “the post” being further split up and creamed off. see 50,000 jobs at risk in break-up of Royal Mail or Royal Mail faces call to [...]

Today is the anniversary of the founding of Soka Gakkai in 1930 and also the anniversary of the death of first president Mr Makiguchi in prison at the hands of the corrupt and fascist Japanese government during WW2, only 14 years later. This is the front page of our newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun.  The headline reads; [...]

Introduction I’ve nabbed the content of this from Ted Penfold.  My wife, has told me that she heard this lecture of Dick’s and found it and him some of the most inspiring things in her life.  I came across this wonderful piece by chance, looking for some background information on Nikko, the second guy after [...]

….but not too much space – read on! A little news item from Germany today jogged my mind into a similar local incident at Cheddar a few years back.  The two stories are almost identical in several ways for reasons that are hard to quantify… Today’s News: Cavemen’s descendants traced Uncovering the ultimate family tree [...]

Following on from my post http://strangelyperfect.tv/442/why-buy-vista/, I’ve noticed that Hewlett Packard have now put some of their stats into the public domain which refute the Microsoft notion that Vista sales are whizz-bang and superb. This posting, http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/215502/hp-windows-xp-accounts-for-majority-of-vista-sales.html, reports the fact that Microsoft is double-counting sales of Vista and XP because customers are getting new machines [...]

Why buy Vista?  Now there’s a question. Microsoft continue to say that Vista sales are much higher than XP ever was.  But this is being disingenuous with the figures.  The fact is that most of the “sales” are as pre-installs on OEM machines.  Fair play to Microsoft, they have driven the business for years and [...]