Linked here is a presentation used in discussion with an audience of business owners on how to manage in the economic crisis. There is no simple solution for one business, let alone several, so the slides aim to stimulate discussion and thoughts which lead to business stability and prosperity. Opportunity in Crisis – A pocketful …
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Category:Media and Gatherings
Dog Biscuits
Just a cute story … Dog Biscuits by David Rippe (excerpted from Listen–The Sounds and Silences of Our Secret Lives) Listen up. Lean in. I have a story to tell. One you will want to hear. It’s a short trip between cool and fool–two letters actually, alphabetically speaking. You’ll have to decide which one am …
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Humanism
I came across this term while browsing. I’m not really into isms, but if I was, this might be it. Humanism is about openness, ethics and justice. The logo is cool too. Maybe it would make an attractive political movement compared to what we’ve got in the world today. Humanism on Wikipedia.
Royalty free clipart and images
A great site for royalty free images and clipart. Good for presentations and other graphics. An openoffice.org addon is available too, so that you can source the whole collection on-line while editing your document. www.clker.com
Better than Google? Well open, cheaper and might be bigger …
The Internet Archive and Open Library are related projects to put books on-line. The inspiration and motivation behind them is seasoned entrepreneur Brewster Kahle. The project itself will prove to be a wonderful resource and it is being approached in the spirit of liberty of which the web was born. Unlike Google’s project, which will …
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TV to change our world.
I came across a most extraordinary billboard yesterday. It announced a number of planet saving cries such as: “love more”, “be vegetarian”, “go green” and purported to be from SupremeMasterTV.com. I was so intrigued that I had to log on and see if it was true. And it is. SuprememasterTV is a global free to …
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Lords of Finance or blinkered old men?
This new book by Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance – 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World, looks like a good read. See the review by The Economist here, which concludes: These great central bankers were so wedded to a dogma that they were incapable of imagining its failure. Perhaps this …
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Sir Terence
It has to be said, he’s a cool dude. And now a knight. Dr Terry Pratchett, CBE is now Sir Terence Pratchett, honoured in the New Year’s honours list. Also nice to see Courtney Pine getting a CBE. (My mum was invited on stage by him in 1997 when I first heard his cool riffs …
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Nutritional Medicine
I recently finished reading Nutritional Medicine by Stephen Davies and Alan Stewart. I had found it on a shelf in the house and flicked it open one day. It looks a bit academic – it’s a guide with some medical terms – but interesting. It must have been read by Mum last century(!) – its …
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The sad economics of growing vegetables
I came across an article on intensive commercial horticulture in Organic Matters. It reflects much of what we’ve learned over the past decade of organic production in Ireland (a developed economy, with subsidised industrial farming and a consumer market generally interested in cheapness and uninterested in quality or source). Two main ideas which are relevant …
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