Ideas-for-Life

That iconic 2005 Standford Commencement address again.. What I learned: Do not be afraid to start again: Apple, NeXT, Pixar and then Apple again? Keep every decision, and every action in perspective of what’s truly important Find what you love, love what you do, and excel at it. Never underestimate the importance of any experience, the dots only appear to line up in hindsight Do YOU! Definitely one to file in my ‘Ideas for life’ folder alongside Dennis Prager’s at Pepperdine University and John Legend at The University of Pennsylvania. ...

Printing a car? Odd that the retards who comment on the Daily Mail jump right to dissing the Indians and Chinese in the comments. Facebook rejigs, again. Tips and tricks to keep things private Sex and Hygiene, an info-graphic. Home grown scam; preying on the desire to jet out of Nigeria by all means. A saddening tale of domestic violence. Where does all the love go? :( There’s an app for that. iPhone meets sleep monitoring. Understanding the Nigerian ‘Middle Class’ - wonder why the earnings limits have been set between NGN75k to 100k - hardly significant earnings I reckon. Brain reading, quite literarily. The DTR, a guide via Boundless. Go out there and make babies. The case for more educated [and progressive] people having more children.

Will this father be prosecuted for defending his family against burglars? Reclaiming the Gentleman - The SBM approach. Even nature tears down first, before attempting to rebuild. The plus side to the Australian fires. A dastardly act, and using social media to hunt the bastards down: Sugarbelly’s blog post, an e-Petition and numerous Twitter mentions. How About We on the types of women to avoid. Eugene Cho muses on Troy Davis, the death penalty and what is an appropriate Christian response. An essay on travelling. Navigating the “You’re a great guy, but…..” talk. Looking for the perfect dating age gap? Six is it. The case for doodling.

Breaking up has its perks - especially when there was the small matter of a six hour difference and 3,000 plus miles. On the plus side, the need to remember birthdays (I sucked majorly at this, which probably added to my being kicked to the kerb), answer phone calls at odd hours of the day and be a pillar of strength to someone finally vanishes, and one is free to pursue other interests. On the flip side, the months of getting to know someone from the ground up are then tossed away, as though all meaning were trivial. Only after a while does the real cost register - long periods that were once filled with sharing the minutiae of life are suddenly filled with solitude; solitude which has the potential to bend one’s mind and numb it into a stupor. ...

A few weeks ago, ‘Jane Doe’ prompted some deep thinking by Single Nigerian, leading him to ponder if trying now and then was enough when others had sacrificed things (even their lives) to ‘get the word to the common man.’ I was listening to an old message by Al Mohler - Being Men and Raising Men [ mp3] - whilst walking to work today, and a section [begins at 51;11] struck me as being a very apt answer to that question. ...

Quick reads…. On-the-job relationships come back into the limelight - one Police Unit seems to have fallen apart over the Team Leader’s dalliance with a female team member. On paywalls, one of the more rational arguments I’ve read. (HT - The Daily Dish) Artificial leaves currently in development may one day power an entire house by electrolysing water and providing hydrogen for fuel cells. Robotic bird flying becomes a wee bit more realistic. The genetic basis for loving working out. Sounding a note of caution for using GPS-aware apps indiscriminately. Color gets another (light) bashing. Slick sleaze, or ill advised expenditure? A short history of the bomb-zapper that never was. Google aims to turn phones into credit cards. App of the Week? Social Media meets shopping for dresses - an app for your friends to help you select a dress. The boobs have it. Apparently, there is a connection between length of time spent breast feeding and brain size. However there is no guarantee that breast milk is all that, especially when the mother isn’t eating well herself after all.

Back after missing two weeks.. Blame an ultra packed work programme..So here goes.. S3’s brain-computer implant passes 1000 days in situ. Small steps, but good news none the less. LOL, FYI and OMG make it into the Oxford English Dictionary. Meet the luxury edition iPad2, 24 carat gold, 53 diamonds and T-Rex bone shavings; all for a ‘paltry’ 5M pounds.. Justin Taylor does an early ‘April Fool’s Day ruse about a letter to the Apostle Paul. Buying the right to fight a case for someone else? Goodluck Jonathan leads the latest poll? Interesting stuff in Nigeria..

The Queen advertises for a dish washer to come on staff… My local MSP wonders if they’ve not heard of a dish washing machine. The WHO drills down into the alcohol stats.. Apparently alcohol killed more people than AIDS or TB in 2010.. Sobering.. Understanding the story.. Thirteen perspectives…. Brain chemicals and dating.. A primer. Teju Cole’s ‘Open City’ hits the shelves… The New Yorker, The Daily Beast and The Apostrophe weigh in with reviews. The kid named Facebook..Ostensibly its a testament to the impact FB had on the Egypt Revolution.. Hopefully, the kid doesn’t get a lot of stick for the name though.. There’s an app for that… Tracking relationship changes on Facebook gets the Web2.0 makeover….. SMH.. Web mourning? Help for the blokes - wristbands that warn of potentially PMSing partners. Bringing faiths together by cuisine.. The Faith and The Hot Dog show..

‘Spiritual’ love goes social… The story of Vicars connected by a witty comment on Facebook A soup ladle turns out to be a life saver in more ways than one.. Meet the bloke saved from a tiger by his wife’s soup ladle ‘Life is short, have an affair?’… Al Mohler muses on the Ashley Madison business model.. GABA receptors may be the reason for anxiety around that ’time of the month’ for the lasses.. The ’thief’ who sued the bloke he tried to steal from - and got 13k pounds.. A not so short history of Aji-no-moto.. And the scare scaremongering around MSG. Man vs Machine.. 1-0 to the machines on Jeopardy..

Personality tests go a notch up - this site offers personality tests based on your blog. Automating war? Danger room reports that one in fifty ‘combatants’ in Afghanistan is a robot. The key to snagging the dream girl appears to be acting uninterested. @JangleLegJones thinks differently, sadly I couldn’t convince her to write a 4000 word essay deconstructing the research. Tim Challies offers the chance to pre-order his new book, and get a signed copy. Apparently, even sex is a matter for IQ these day s.. Sigh.. There’s an app for that. Confessionals go electronic. Sleepwalking may be in the DNA after all. A kiss too far? Much ado about farting Potentially crappy valentine weekend coming up? Try these books to get you laid..