When I’m out having a few beers or a coffee, this is probably the number one story that I bring up and talk about. I find it extremely inspiring. The story about the lady that choreographed the cats musical especially. I recently spoke about this problem here.
However now, RSA Animate have gone one step further on this talk by the wonderful Ken Robinson. They’ve animated it to a point of perfection.
I have never gone to college and have pretty much self educated myself through every point in my life. Thus this talk is extremely close to my heart and I find it extremely inspiring to myself. Take a look:
It’s extremely handy to have little snippets of code like this to test when they are needed. I might start posting more if they help people.
USE whatever_database;
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE database_schema.storedprocedurename
AS
SELECT something FROM sometable;
GO
EXEC database_schema.storedprocedurename;
GO
DROP PROCEDURE database_schema.storedprocedurename;
GO
Due to my amazing girlfriend, I got to see these guys live yesterday in the Academy, Dublin. To say they were amazing is an understatement. Frightened Rabbit are a scottish indie band that I’ve been following for about 2 years now. I simply love their music and cannot help but recommend them to any indie music lover.
A couple of friends headed to the gig too, one of which (Stephen Thornton) captured this amazing photo of the lead singer (Scott Hutchison) during the song Poke.
You hear everyday how technology is advancing to the future. How the latest version of Product X is now released and how wonderful it is. The excitement that us adults get to play with these new releases…
Technology does improve life as long as you can discipline yourself to use it correctly. There’s no need to know what’s going on in the world 24 hours a day. No one needs that amount of information. Learn to switch off.
We don’t want our kids to get flooded with information. This is why I find the technology for children industry wonderful and a great sector to follow. (more…)
Since Tuesday I’ve been testing out Dr. Andrew Weil’s book, “8 Weeks to Optimum Health”. It’s a program that I’ve seen discussed many times through various people on the Internet that is meant to work.
Work in what way? It is Dr. Weil’s understanding that taking pharmaceutical drugs to aid any illnesses we have isn’t always the correct way to go. In fact the drugs simply aid our natural healing power and immune system to break down the ailment and beat it. (more…)