Archive for February, 2010

Kendo: Goals

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

It is a tad complex trying to figure out how one paces out goals on a journey that lasts a lifetime. It’s a bit easy to work out my practice as just a drop in the bucket of doing Kendo for the rest of my life. However, as with other things I’m involved in, I feel a need to pace myself and at least set small achievable goals. It’s proving a bit difficult to find advice on what is possible within a measure of time, so that one can figure out how effective one’s training is. The advice almost always seems to boil down to “keep trying, it will come”. My issues are not about hurrying or a complete lack of patience (I’m aware that even 8th Dans still learn new things), it’s a question of trying to work out what’s effective in my training… or perhaps this is something one has to work out for himself.

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21st Century Communication

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

I find it a bit amusing how many means of communication there are these days. I’m old enough to remember a period where the primary means of reaching anybody, apart from one’s immediate neighbours, was the solitary home phone. However, these days there are so many ways of reaching people in remote areas of the world at strange times. It makes one wonder how the human race has adapted for these differences in such a short span of time. As a quick catalogue of the services I currently actively use {Facebook, Twitter, 3 E-mail addresses, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Skype, IRC and 1 mobile phone} It’s no wonder my sleeping habits are borderline non-existent.

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Twitter Developer Nest (February 2010)

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Attended the February Twitter Developer Nest #devnest at Sun Microsystems. Saw some really cool apps and presentations. <Updated long post coming up>

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