Today I made a choice to embrace Islam after more than 9 years of considering to do so. I was held back all of these years because of a fear of not being able to read Arabic. I had read an olde English transliterated version of the Qur’an which was difficult to read let alone [...]
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Sophie Hunger plays haunting songs at TED
Breakthrough singer songwriter Sophie Hunter plays an amazing set at TED.
Happiness and wellbeing – our experience of self
Professor of Psychology at at Princeton University, Prof. Daniel Kahneman, has given an exceptional lecture at TED where he discusses the concept of ‘happiness’. Prof. Kahneman shines a light onto what happiness is and it is not what you may think. Watch the TED video of the lecture below and share your thoughts on happiness [...]
Glitter in the air at the 52nd Grammy Awards
Another year and yet another awards show. Feeling wholly unchallenged I began watching the Grammy Awards anticipating cliched performances with its requisite stable of ‘Idol’ performing ‘Hall of Fame’ inductees. Instead, I re-discovered Pink who presented in my opinion one of the most delicate and thoughtfully conceived performances that I have ever seen. In an [...]
Freedom of Speech for online Journalists
Wired’s The Threat Level blog recently published a disturbing account of how two bloggers late December were subjected to governmental pressure to reveal a source. The Wired article centered around instructions that America’s Transport Security Administration (TSA) issued Christmas day in light of the latest attempted plane bombing by a suspected operative of the Al [...]
Pubcon 2009
Las Vegas is such a city of contrasts, the wealthy and those that are struggling to make ends meat somehow exist in this desert city of excess. I feel very fortunate to be here attending the annual SEO pilgrimage that is Pubcon. I am reminded however that for my fortunes there are people that live [...]
Natural Talent at Googleplex London
Simply amazing performance by Nathan ‘Flutebox’ Lee and Beardyman at Googleplex London earlier this year.
Content consumption changes
Like a lot of people I spend quite a lot of time reading articles online and have found the way that I take in content has changed over the last months.
Game Theory and it's Impact on Iran
I seem to be addicted to ted.com talks these last few days and happened to find a very interesting talk about Game Theory that was given earlier this year by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. The talk was entitled “Three predictions on the future of Iran, and the math to back it up” and below is [...]
Our Legacy of PET
From TED.com this year a talk about the environmental impact and more importantly the legacy that we have all created for our children and their children.