October 2011
6 posts
How Microsoft borked a key iCloud hire for Apple
In April, the technology media was sent aflutter when Apple was discovered to be hiring Kevin Timmons from Microsoft. At that time, Timmons had spent the prior two years as a key member of Microsoft’s data centers. Apple wanted him.
We can now nearly certainly say that the reason Cupertino was fishing in Redmond’s pond was for its now-released ..read more.. Like Flipboard for the iPhone
“A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own...”
– Proverbs 18:2 — New International Version (1984)
September 2011
1 post
“So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a...”
– Sun Tzu
August 2011
9 posts
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to...”
– Arthur Ashe
“A single conversation with a wise person is better than ten years of study.”
– Chinese Proverb
“Hardening of the categories causes art disease.”
– W. Eugene Smith
“I’ve never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in...”
– W. Eugene Smith
“Gbogbo alangba lo d’anu dele, a ko mo eyi t’inu nrun
— All...”
– Or- Everyone looks the same on the outside but everyone has problems that are invisible to outsiders
July 2011
45 posts
“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its...”
– Milan Kundera
“Il n’est de science que du corps” [“The science of the body is...”
– Michèle Causse
“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the...”
– Henry David Thoreau (Civil Disobedience and Other Essays: Collected Essays of Henry David Thoreau)
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still...”
– Henry David Thoreau (Civil Disobedience and Other Essays: Collected Essays of Henry David Thoreau)
“You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one...”
– Oprah Winfrey Amen, awomen, a-everything
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging...”
– William James
“Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of...”
– Thomas Moore (Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life)
“Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.”
– Thomas Moore (Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life)
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or...”
– Thomas Moore
“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re wasting space.”
– Unknown — and I agree
WatchAtlantis lands, shuttle program ends. Welcome home Atlantis!
“When we choose to polarize, friendship, community and intimacy suffer. It...”
– Thomas Moore
“As a monk, I learned that work is prayer, that reading is a spiritual practice,...”
– Thomas Moore
“The old people came literally to love the soil, and they sat or reclined on the...”
– Lakota Chief Luther Standing Bear
“LEADERS =
‘ L’ is for look and listen – with your senses, mind, heart and...”
– The Soul of Leadership by Deepak Chopra Rider, 2011 ISBN: 9781846042706
“Other people are established inalienably in my memories only if their names were...”
– C. G. Jung
“A Rumi story tells of a dervish walking past a deep well. He hears a voice:
...”
– Thomas Moore — The Power of Language
“If you look at lupus patients, there is a profound deficiency of Vitamin D. We...”
– Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/07/19/2011-07-19_vitamin_d_may_hold_key_to_easing_symptoms_caused_by_lupus_a_small_dose_of_hope.html#ixzz1SaEn7j00
After one year my blood pressure decreased dramatically from OMG to a wowing 112/68. My kidneys are very happy.
““Malice needs nothing to live on; it can feed on itself. A contentious spirit...”
– When negativity about someone else pours out of our mouths, could we be exposing, without realizing it, our own evil?
“Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.”
– Thomas Moore
“True change takes place in the imagination.”
– Thomas Moore
“Once you have faced that death which can come from cancer you can give full rein...”
– Audre Lorde
“In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!”
– Homer
“In these times I don’t, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps...”
– Marsilio Ficino (From the fabulous book: Letters of Marsilio Ficino: Volume 3)