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Thought on 13.11.2015 and similar atrocities globally

Those of you who have watched Star Wars will recognize this quote below. And those of you who are Buddhist will recognize the sentiment and a very similar quote;

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

- Yoda

Maybe it is time we collectively as a global human (and indeed humane) race forced our leaders to listen and look beyond curing the symptom as is so often done and look back towards the root causes of these actions and cure those.

It strikes me that each of these atrocities goes back far, far beyond what we are experiencing now... and most if not all stem from greed and fear......

The dividing line

So this morning I was walking along a path with the rest of the rat race heading off to work. The path was nothing special, just a 3 meter wide, paved path with a white line painted down the center. The line marked the split between pedestrian and cycle path. So nothing special - you see it in a lot of places in the UK now.

However, watching the group ahead of me, I  noticed something in the behavior of the group and of the individuals. Even though there was no physical barrier, no major risk of a collision with an oncoming bike (the path was empty and you could see quite well down the path), the majority just crowded to one side of the path not even stepping on the painted line.

In fact they mostly preferred to stack up in traffic jam fashion or like they were crammed into the tram they just stepped out of rather than risk stepping out of their side. And you could see the slow walkers holding up sections of the hoard.

There were however a few individuals who broke the status quo, crossed to the forbidden side and continued on their way having broken social convention. Seeing this a few others would follow.... but only a few.

Watching this I wondered if the behavior of each individual here mirrored their own behavior in life. Do they always follow social construct, afraid to challenge, afraid to venture and try what has not already been well trodden? Are the ones leaping ahead the adventurers amongst us?

Was an interesting morning walk to work :-)

Ever wondered...

Why it is so important for corporations to ensure they squeeze every drop of blood from their employees by effectively making you feel guilty for working a normal day.... why not instead increase the efficiency, by making the hours shorter without decreasing pay - i.e. increase the quality of life.

I've seen people "work" till late at night to be seen to work so as to be labeled a good worker, but still produce less than someone happy, not tired and working 75% less time.

When will corporations stop acting like the slave masters of the past and learn they can get far more in less hours spent at work......

Websites

Trying to learn something new - Responsive Website Design and Development.....

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

– Bruce Lee

SiMore - G2 BlueBox Review

So disappointed :-(
I bought this about a month back, as being stupid the last mobile I purchased was not Dual SIM - even after contemplating the need I have for it.

I wanted to be able to have my Dutch and UK mobiles accessible and always on within a single device - basically Dual SIM active as opposed to Dual SIM standby.

So far this is the only device I have found that provides that functionality to mobile devices not having Dual SIM Active capability built in.

I gotta to say though, so far I am not overly impressed. The unit cost 99 Euros and as of this date I've had the following experience;

• You can't tell how much juice is left in the unit until it goes out on you
• Not the easiest to see at a glance if it is on, off
• The build quality is not really fantastic - would expect more for 99 Euros
• Those one time pass  codes that are being so common now for accessing your accounts won't show on the SMS screen in there app
• I sometimes get calls coming through from people who had tried to call me over an hour back
• The app is basic, but if it worked 100% of the time wouldn't be that bad - it does not
• I sometimes send SMS messages that don't get sent, no record and no trace on the phone app.
• The app sometimes says connected to the device, and no calls or SMS are received - until I reboot the device. The only way I figure this out is if I am expecting a message and it never arrives :-/
• The connection on calls has been awful most times even with the unit within a meter. By connection I mean unit to mobile, which uses bluetooth.

All in all so far my thoughts are that the ease of use I wanted and reliability is not there and I would not advise anyone to purchase this device.

Really disappointed, was expecting more at this price - good idea - bad implementation. Next time will look closer into a real Dual SIM Active mobile.....

... I guess you live and learn.... hopefully this will help someone else to make a decision and not be disappointed.

Why do I keep booking early morning flights...

It occurs to me that any flight departing before 9AM that forces me to wake up before half six is just not for me!

I vaguely remember someone telling me they read a research paper that identified 7:20 something (22 I think it was) as being the earliest optimal time to wake up..... this leads on to my lifetime gripe about work life.... I'll add a blog on that later.