In the Woods

I drew a couple of pictures recently. Just felt so proud of them I couldn't help but post it here. 🙂 Here's one of an old man with a child. This was inspired by a photo I saw which accompanied a poem (Rudyard Kipling's If). Here's one of a girl. I had actually tried to... Continue Reading →

Does IT Matter?

I'm currently reading a book called Does IT Matter?, by author Nicholas G. Carr. It basically talks about how IT's competitive advantage has been corroded through the commodatisation of IT. IT as a Commodity I had never thought of IT in this way consciously, of IT as a commodity. When we talk of IT as... Continue Reading →

A Short Love Story

Everyday he would dress up to the nines for her, thinking she would take more notice of him. He opened and held doors open for her. He acted like the perfect gentleman. He always appeared the alpha male. But if she was interested she never showed it. She always had a look of indifference around... Continue Reading →

Sloppy vs. Casual

Australians dress very casually. So when I ran out of "going out" clothes I wondered if I might dress "casually" like the Australians, wearing my "home" clothes. But when I looked at myself in the mirror, I realised wearing "home" clothes wasn't being casual -- it was just being sloppy, at the pretense of being... Continue Reading →

Man Makes Himself

Here's a quotation I'd like to share with you, attributed to Jean-Paul Sartre: Certainly we cannot say that this man [a young student of Sartre's who in 1940 had to choose between going to England to join the Free French Forces or staying in occupied France to care for his mother, who depended on him],... Continue Reading →

On Time and Clips

I'm planning on setting up a site dedicated to clips of text I find, be it from a book, website, magazine piece or tabloid feature. Clips are extended quotes, or quotes that are long enough to contain quotes that can stand by themselves. Take for example the following quote, from the book Revolutionary Road by... Continue Reading →

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