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Age of Uncertainty

Yesterday I was killing some time and walked into a second hand book shop – I love exploring book shops – you never know what you will find..I found a book..It was meant to happen.

 

It has the following foreword..

 

“This is the age of uncertainty. This is the time of emotional upset and nervous instability. This is the era when man surveying the Universe from atop the heap of his material accomplishments sees his insignificance in comparison to the stars, understands how puny is his strength in comparison to atomic power. This is a time when man, in his headlong rush to master the elements and harness natures energies, has come far enough to know that he treads the wrong path to his own security. For there is no security in machines, or electricity, electronics or nuclear power.

 

What am I? What caused me? Why am I here? Where am I going? These are the questions of the human soul that demand an answer. Their resounding echoes are in the offices of our psychiatrists, in our prisons and our homes for the insane and wicked. Their anguished cries are on our battlefields, in our uprooted families, in every charred ember of every burned village and pillaged town that exists in the wake of humanity who have cut off their ties with God (the Universe) and from hope...”

 

Can you relate to this ?  I can!!

 

It seems that our anguish and needs have not changed much – this was written by U.S. Anderson in 1954!

 

 

 

 

 

Tags: Age+of+Uncertainty, Uncertainty, U.S.Anderson

Jill Bolte Taylor - an insightful experience of life

This is worth listening to – if you are at all interested in how our cognitive brain works..  

I was very interested and motivated to find out more..

This is truly a very insightful and enlightening recounting of her life – she suffered a stroke – which she was able to experience – this gives us a look into this skeletal being, with two cognitive minds – call the human being – as she says a right brain – thinking only in the here in now – thinks as a parallel computer might, only in pictures – joining us to the Universe – then the left hand brain – thinks in language – an works as a serial processor might in a time line – it separates us from the Universe – but it joins with the right brain through the corpus colossum – it take the experience of the right hand brain and minutely exams the information from it – and applies it to our experience of the past and to the future.

You know that little voice in your head – it comes from the Left brain – I wonder if we can retrofit a switch to turn off the left hand brain when we want to – for instance when we want to meditate.

A very unique experience – thank you for sharing it Jill – I think the Right Brain – until I want to leave the house, or anything that needs me to remember or interpret this world.

Thank you Jill.

Tags: cognitive+minds, insight+into+the+mind, Jill+BolteTaylor

ANZAC Day Dawn Service - Anzac Cove (Turkey in 1915) and Villers-Bretonneux in France in 1918.

Watching the dawn services very early this morning – was very moving for me – a real catch in the throat.

“They who will never grow old – we will remember them”

Hopefully, we will not only remember them – we will learn from them.

Lest we forget.

Tags: Anzac+Day,+Anzac+Cove,+Villers-Bretonneux

GOALS - Media and the future

Business moves in cycles, and after the last 15 years in my most recent incarnation I decided it was time to move onto a long held ambition of mine, to extend my skills, knowledge and expertise in the corporate sector, either in Australia or overseas. I have a background of deep experience in the Media and New Media sectors, from Radio Stations, Recording Studios, Television Stations, and Film & Video Production, to my most recent venture as a supplier of systems and services to Media & Technology companies and an operator of an ISP - hands on involvement with New Media. The business evolved into providing Business, Management and Technology consulting services to a range of industries, including Broadcasting the Internet and New Media sectors. I am passionate about the future of Broadcasting, New Media and the Technology that enables them - where both of these areas are going to evolve. In particular how we infuse the influence of the Internet and other emerging digital platforms into the mass media business models.

Very few Media companies in Australia are building new business models most are not. Some are throwing money at the threat by buying Internet operations thinking that this will plug the holes in their future Income profile, whilst others are actually doing what is needed to make the Internet an ally, by building communities. I am positive that formerly monopolistic media enterprises can both survive and grow their income streams but they will need to do so by following a different business model to that of the past, new strategies for the movement into Multi-platform Broadcasting; and onto other emerging digital platforms; Overseeing production of innovative inherently cross media television programs; the acquisitions of new innovation content experiences for free to air and online; I want to contribute to, and help guide that process. I have been head-hunted for positions in the past lastly as the former Executive VP of API Group, I have negotiated large contracts in Australia and overseas, I intimately know the technologies that power Broadcasting and the Internet, I have owned and run an ISP. I am completing my MBA in Finance and New Venture creation; I am also working on a further study on Trends for information in the digital economy

The Trip to the USA

I returned a little while ago from the USA where I was basically for much of June, and some of July - I spent a little time in Los Angeles and San Francisco - but much of my time was spend in Colorado, and in particular the Rocky Mountains themselves.

Arriving in Denver which is in itself a mile high - the air port was quite a surprise - a state of the art - internal trains (the home hub for Frontier airlines) that was great - the biggest problem was that I was very tired after my time in Los Angeles - and was in no state to try work the trains - all too hard. Well after a few efforts I arrived at the right end of the airport - for baggage claim etc. Of course the heightened state of United States security did not help matters. I know that police with dogs, police on bicycles and police in teams - all carrying sub-machine guns, plus +++ as well as body Armour and flak vest - is this supposed to make me feel more secure but funnily it doesn't - it makes me feel decidingly insecure - unfortunately with the world wide paranoia - its very much a shoot first - whoops afterwards kind of scenario.

After - baggage claim -  I was met by my friends - and off we went - to experience Colorado.

One thing of course I might mention is that for almost 2 months before I left - I took I took a herbal tonic to increase the oxygen carrying capacity of my blood and hence my ability to actually breathe at these altitudes - here speaks someone who normally lives at sea level. It worked after a few days becoming acclimatised .  One thing you don't think (well I didn't) about is dehydration - drink lots of water - well I did as well as large quantities of sports drinks like Gatorade - couldn't have done without it

I spent time with wonderful people, such a wonderful experience - exploring through the Rocky Mountains, at least the Colorado side - saw Moose, Elk, Deer - didn't see any beaver although I saw their dams - so large - such an industrious little creature.

My sincere personal thanks to those wonderful people of Colorado who treated me like a long lost son - their generosity was wonderful and endearing - all my love goes to these very special people at Rawhide, their friends and families.

Tags: Denver, Colorado, friends, Moose, Elk, Beaver

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TPG Internet

I have a ADSL2+ high speed internet connection, alledgedly when I signed on of upto 24 Mbps - this is a joke, the highest download speed is 3 MBps (approx 300 KBytes persecond.).- I am about 1200 metres from the exchange.

I have had a large number of conversations concerning this with TPG - they supplied the whole kit on a turnkey basis - they won't backup or support the hardware they suppled - they have asked me if I would like to supply another modem so I can check out the quality of the line itself - SORRY - surely that is their issue.  But funny it doesn't seem to be.

I am probably going to move soon, and surprising I may not be renewing with TPG - mind you who else ?

I will have one last go with TPG next week, then I will post their response or most probably their lack of it here.

Tags: High speed Internet, ADSL2+, Broadband, TPG Internet

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Leverage knowledge to a New Career

With a new year about to commence for me I have some tangible reason to confirm my optimism for the future, as I have been recently appointed to a large International Consulting company - based in Sydney.

I am using the contacts and experience I have from the Broadcasting, Media and Telecommunications Industries to leverage myself - I have been able to re-invent myself into a whole new industry - in the areas of Strategic and Corporate Consulting, retained executive as well as executive search.

I am very thankful to have a productive focus in my life that forces a daily productive discipline onto my soul and my daily life.

It is a tad funny that a while ago I was critical of the way that recruiting companies operate - and now I am one - however I am more able to understand the apparent external operating systems that once limited my understanding of the Recruitment industry - however I find the retained operating system far superior business model to the alternative in the areas of basically providing value for money.

Whilst the Internet is a wonder for making information available, and the interaction between individuals and corporations - I do not consider that it has done anything for a Human relationship business such as the recruitment industry - due to the time and staffing restrictions forced on many of the agencies - the use of computerized Resume' readers and profilers has in my opinion taken the Human out of Human Recruitment.  As well many of these agencies - who advertise only on large job sites - only receive interest from active job seekers - where as the ideal person may be a passive job seeker who needs in the most part - hard copy advertising in print media to notify them of the position.

 

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Something out of the Box and Left field

It isn't often that I take a public stand on things, however I am very concerned about the current facade concerning the for and against positions for the Whale killing.

I know that there is little I can do to influence the Japanese and other Governments to stop this insane murder, so I can only extend my displeasure within my circle of influence, and perhaps by talking to you, to hopefully make you stop and think. Why are we as a species doing this?

Obviously, the stated reason for the Japanese whaling program of scientific research is for public consumption only and has little credibility. The way the mammals are killed sometimes by being drowned, and then gutted (whilst still moving) - the brutality of this is unbelievable.

Why are they doing this, is it political, is it economic (probably) or is it just ego, or are they just being absolutely bloody, perhaps all of the above, or as a wise man said - because we can and you can't stop us.

OK, so what can I do with this anger - all I can do is to express my displeasure and total disagreement in the only way that may have some effect, even microscopically - I need to vote with my wallet, I was about to buy a car, a phone - and a new laptop.  I guess I will need to seek these products from other vendors - without their Head Quarters in Japan or Norway.

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