Strangely Perfect

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 [...]

Garrett Lisi’s Campervan Theory of Everything I love the way he’s freed his life of encumberances to allow himself time to think…. Garrett’s mind seems to hinge on symmetries and the resolution of everything into clearly recognisable patterns, which, as he states with his Galileo reference, harks back to earlier times and theories. He’s wrapped [...]

A swords into ploughshares moment hit me today. It’s the news, Isotope shortage may delay scans , that because three reactors are closed at once, the whole world supply of an isotope, molybdenum 99, which is used as a marker in body scanning, has been interrupted. In an astonishing pointer to quantum theory, the 3-day half-life [...]

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 [...]

What’s all this Buddhism then, like? Intro I practice the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin who was a guy living in 13th century Japan. He is what most people nowadays would call a “good guy” although at the time, because he spoke his mind which then annoyed the ruling classes, he spent most of his life [...]