I have had an opportunity recently to be exposed to people I haven’t, in the course of things, had to deal with in quite some time. In truth it has taken me back to my therapy days and the long hours of discourse covering irrelevant events in a long distant past.
These people have [...]
Now I have pellacor up and running; and slowly begin to develop the style and voice here: offline I have been experimenting with different forms of written expression trying to find ways to free up the written language from the tight constraints of syntax.
On a couple of occasions this has been sitting up [...]
I had a conversation last week with the New Zealand Olympic Committee about the possibility of supplying some content onto their site for the games in Beijing. They said they would be open to it in the future, but had hired their own writer for the Olympics. I kinda suggested that maybe content [...]
To some people sales and selling can be dirty words, inspiring images of real estate agents and car salesman using unscrupulous tactics, pressure and feelings of loss. But selling is the foundation of commerce and we all earn money that had been generated through sales at some point.
On an abstract level, selling is obtaining [...]
We all experience this life apart; and that separation wrenches a hole in our subjective which can never be completely filled. In a perfect world we would be able to share our sorrows and joys; we would be able to see through the night, by knowing the morning sun fills us again.
This is [...]
What a week it has been; we have laughed, we have cried, we have really started to make a difference to the supply of news online. The feelings are probably further down the track than we actually are, but it feels good nonetheless.
Mum is up tonight and I am off work tomorrow – [...]
The idea of a universal acid is of a corrosive force so strong it eats through everything it comes in contact with; it cannot be contained, as any container would be eaten up by the omnipotent acidity within.
The universal acid could not exist in this world, or else all would succumb to its unstoppable [...]
There can be no pretence when meeting up with an old friend, sure you may wear a quality cut suit nowadays and you may well keep your room clean and tidy; but they still see you as the spotty and badly dressed kid you were when you first met.
So it was last night, catching [...]
During a recent conversation with an elderly woman I was told something that left me heart broken. She said the saddest thing that happened to her now she is older is people stop have stopped recognising her. She was not referring to people she knows, but how in her sixties, people on the [...]