This amazing youtube video recently came my way.   If you haven't seen it yet and have any interest at all in the global social impact of the new web you will love it.

A friend of mine sent me a link to this video lately.  A very funny, inspiring, poignant, and serious look at american foreign policy and the state of world.




Amazing watch.

I wonder sometimes hearing stuff like this weighed against messages of the Law of Attraction in videos like this...

are the two philosophies contradictory? 

and if not are we thinking the former so?

You are The Magician

Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.

Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing, you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.

The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

My friend Katrina recently just sent me link to a project championed by her colleages at The Evolver Project

EVO is a new membership and loyalty card program supporting conscious commerce. EVO connects you to businesses with a green vision and social mission - and to other people who share your values.

sound familiar?

check it out!

I've been really neglecting my blog lately despite my desire to keep into it.
an indication of one of my challenges on the path to nonduality.

just posting my intention to get back on it here and now!

if you ever see me slacking please feel encouraged to give me a nudge.

Imageable Blogs are finally here  

Now when you enter a new Blog post you can select a photo from your hard drive to upload as the official photo for that blog entry.   Of course you can also still copy and paste images throughout your text as well.

This is just the beginning however, as the ultimate goal is to allow you to keep a media library here on Zaadz!   You will then be able to draw on that (as well as uploading) to  allow you a fully flexible blog edtting experience..

So hang on folks...  as we boldly go where no man has gone before...    ;-)

 

I got my subscription copy of WIE today and it looks great!

OoooOOoo..   and there's my picture on page 3 with all the other sexy zaadzsters...

 and there's the Zaadz article on page 34! 

 I've always been impressed with WIE since I first subscribed in 2002..  but now I must say that I'm really stoked to be where I am..  working for a company that wants to advertise in WIE AND write an article on us!   and there I am on page 3!  what a trip!  ;-)

Everyone who doesn't already subscribe to WIE should get on it now!  So much great content..  Even the Ads are worth reading!  

 :-)

 

It's funny I could be raised in a home going to church almost every Sunday until I was 18 and not really notice Ascension Thursday before.

I just noticed it on my calendar today though and had to look it up on Wikipedia

As I would have guessed it's a day commemorating the day Jesus ascended into heaven on a Thursday much like this one 40 days after Easter Sunday.   Sure they didn't follow the same calendar as we do back then..  details, details

What was more interesting than the origins of the day itself though were some of the superstitions that have come to surround it..

 Here's the list from wikipedia I thought was great.

• According to Welsh superstition, it is unlucky to do any work on Ascension Day.
• In Devon, it was an ancient belief that the clouds always formed into the familiar Christian image of a lamb.
• If the weather is sunny, the summer will be long and hot; but if it rains, crops will do badly and livestock, especially cattle, will suffer from disease.
• Eggs laid on this day will never go bad and will guarantee good luck for a household if placed in the roof.
• Rain collected on Ascension Day is said to be good for inflamed or diseased eyes.
• Those suffering from goitre should bite into the bark of a peach tree at midnight on Ascension Day, so that the disease passes to the tree and the sufferer is cured.
• Gifts to the blind or lame made on this day are sure to be rewarded with great wealth within the following twelve months.

be aware!

 :-)

Wow.  I can't believe so much time has passed since my last blog.  If this was confessional I'd be in trouble.  jk.

Well not blogging for so long does not mean nothing is happening.  I still have this habit of spending way more time on the development side than on the front end.

So what's new?  Most importantly my birthday came and went on the 8th of this week leaving me another year older.  This came with the startling discovery that I am actually the oldest developer on the Zaadz team!    the oldest at 34!  what does that tell me?  Best not think about it too much.

So what's this aging developer been up to?  Messaging! 

New to the messages has come the ability to tag your messages the same way you tag blogs.   This is going in the direction of Web 2.0 folksonomy and gmail.   all new messages are automagically tagged "inbox".  to take messages out of your inbox without deleting "archive" them.   But tag them first!  otherwise the only way to find them is by way of the seach function.. 

Like the way the new view on the sent invitations work?  i just spruced that up as well and much happier with it now.   send reminders.  is coming soon.

Also new is the recycler.  Accidentally delete a message before it's time?  not to worry, you now have a last chance to find it before it's gone forever.   you can can now restore message from the recycler or send them to the ether to rejoin with the force.

Enjoy!

On wednesday at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning the time and date will be

01:02:03 04/05/06

That won't ever happen again!!

unless of course you go day month year in which case it will happen on May 4th  ;-)