This is your life

Posted by Alex on 7 Aug, 2011 in Improvement | 0 comments

An inspiring message about how to live your life:

You can find this poster here.

Separation Journal #1: Seven Weeks Later

Posted by Alex on 30 Jul, 2011 in Lifenotes, Relationships | 0 comments

A T-shirt I bought this month

Seven weeks since my wife moved out. How can that be true? They say time flies when you’re having fun, but apparently it flies by when you’re going through a major upheaval too. I suppose there are lots of new experiences and feelings to busy the mind.

Anyway, I intended to blog a bit more often than this, so I’m going to start writing something about my life every two weeks (credit to Roo for the idea). These will be interspersed with my other content, so if you don’t know me well you may want to skip these – you can use the categories to drill down.

In some ways a lot has happened since the reboot. In some ways very little…

Songpost #3

Posted by Alex on 30 Jul, 2011 in Songposts | 0 comments

Mika – Happy Ending

29 ways to stay creative

Posted by Alex on 19 Jul, 2011 in Ideas & Innovation, Improvement | 0 comments

I don’t agree with all of these, but there are some great pearls of wisdom in this nicely-put-together video:

Ten reasons Google+ deserves to beat Facebook

Posted by Alex on 10 Jul, 2011 in Technology & Society | 7 comments

Last week Google launched Google+, a new social platform which many are comparing to Facebook. It is quite different from Facebook or Twitter, though it is clearly inspired by both. If it is to gain broad acceptance and not fade away like Orkut, Buzz and Wave–Google’s past attempts to build a social network–then it needs to be more than just “good enough”. It has to wow its critics. The good news is, Google+ seems to be doing just that. Here’s ten reasons why it deserves success:

Mr. Plinkett Takes on Hollywood

Posted by Alex on 14 Jun, 2011 in Reviews | 2 comments

From the dawn of civilization to 2003, humans created five billion gigabytes of information. Now, thanks to the Internet’s mainstream adoption, we create that much data every two days. Everyone is a publisher now. But much of the content published is derivative; we’re witnessing the birth of ‘metaculture’ – a cornucopia of mashups, parodies, reviews and remixes of “old media”, encompassing everything from Twilight fan blogs and YouTube movie reviews to labours of love like “The Brick Testament”, a complete Bible re-enactment in Lego.

It is perhaps apt then, that the subject of this review is itself a review, namely Harry S. Plinkett’s video review of the 2009 “Star Trek” reboot. This is no ordinary review, it’s a feature-length film in its own right, skilfully merging insightful critical commentary with the sort of dark, politically incorrect comedy you might find in South Park or Pulp Fiction.

Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away…

Posted by Alex on 14 Jun, 2011 in My Stream | 1 comment

Now here’s a show I would have loved to see!

I found this online, if anyone knows the source, let me know.