I was sent a video today which caused me to think. This life is too short for you to get so worked up about the small little annoyances we deal with. Traffic, work politics, neighbor’s barking dog, bleeding heart liberals, corporate raiders, loggers or environmentalists - your time on this Earth is wasted when you [...]
Posted on September 29th, 2009 by pdone
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This evening we launched rockets with Andrew. This was the concluding requirement for Andrew to build and launch model rockets for the Space Exploration merit badge that he started at Goshen Scout Camp earlier this month.
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Posted on August 27th, 2009 by pdone
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Tonight while watching The Universe on the History Channel ‘Death Stars’ there was presented a scenario that a rogue star’s gravitation could dislodge the Earth from its orbit around the sun.
The thought then occurred to me - could the earth, without its source of energy from the sun self-generate enough energy to sustain life? Why [...]
Posted on August 18th, 2009 by pdone
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What have we become? Follow me on twitter and find out - @paulmdone
Posted on July 11th, 2009 by pdone
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“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” - General Eric Shinseki
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Posted on May 2nd, 2009 by pdone
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It has got to be the technology statement of 2009: ” Twitter, I just don’t get it”. This is ok, this statement really means that the only thing you can do is to tweet (verb for someone using Twitter) about your poached egg sitting on the breakfast table. If this is all you think [...]
Posted on April 6th, 2009 by pdone
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Many of the subscribers in this blog have asked why it has been so quiet lately. True, for several weeks I have not blogged as regularly - mini apologies. The reason is quiet simple - I continue to contribute to the internet (even more often now) using a technology called Twitter. If you don’t know [...]
Posted on March 20th, 2009 by pdone
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Facebook is five. Maybe you didn’t get it in your news feed, but it was in February 2004 that Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, along with some classmates, launched the social network that ate the world. Did he realize back then in his dorm that he was witnessing merely the larval stage of his creation? For [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2009 by pdone
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In the ongoing series of strengths this week’s topic is the characteristic of Futuristic. Tom Rath in his book Strength Finders 2.0 describes the traits a person who is inclined toward future-thinking as one who looks beyond the current conditions.
The future is fantastic to this person; projected as though on a wall the possibilities, details [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2009 by pdone
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While reading the news the other day I considered the attempts that the US President is trying to do to involve citizens in solutions to the nation’s problems. Thinking social-network / democracy / collective wisdom I formed an idea I call a Community Democracy Platform (CDP). The CDP would be a web-based system used to [...]
Posted on February 14th, 2009 by pdone
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