#Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You | Magazine

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#Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You | Magazine

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas from my family to yours….

and a Happy new Year

Please enjoy your time with your family and loved ones.

Winter Solstice

No matter what our spiritual beliefs, or where in the world we may live, we all share the turning of the sun on the solstices.

 

In the Northern Hemisphere, Winter Solstice comes on December 21, the shortest  day of the year. After the Winter Solstice, the days becomes longer until the  longest day of the year arrives around June 21st. It is often thought of as  Symbolic time of rebirth.

 

Honouring the solstice is something lost to most of us, and it feels deeply meaningful, in a mystical sort of way, to choose to make a glimmer of connection.

 

Our ancestors celebrated light being reborn on this day, reflecting their close relationship with nature. They felt the effect of the cycles of the universe directly in their lives.

 

With seasons shifting from autumn to winter, it is a time of transition, with yin energy at its peak and yang energy at its minimum expression. It’s the darkest day of the year, and yet this day has a glimmer of light in all its darkness. This seed has power and the potential for transformation, rebirth and full expression. From this point on, light is reborn to grow gradually as the days become longer.

 

Winter Solstice can often remind us of death and regeneration with death being an essential element preceding regeneration. Like the trees that loose their leaves preparing for winter, trusting that new ones will grow in spring, we can also see endings as necessary agents giving way to new beginnings. Can you accept death as part of the natural cycle of the universe? What is dying and being reborn in your life?

 

On the darkest and longest night of the year, honour this darkness and nourish the seed of light so that it may bloom and shine brightly tomorrow.

 

Happy Winter Solstice!!!

 

what pisses me off...?

 

Well, depending on who you talk to it could be a great number of things, but for for the sake of this post I will try to limit it to one thing.

 

Lets Start with Rudeness:

 

I HATE rudeness. From anybody. No matter who you are, how busy you are ( or think you are) or how self important you are, there is absolutely no need to be rude to anyone.

Somehow along the way we have lost our humanity and do not care about what anything that the other person does. People have become so self centred and will take every opportunity to screw the other person!!

 

peoples basic communication skills suck and we have come to expect that we will be treated rudely when buying something from a store. people do not have basic manners...when was the last time someone said please or thank you to you?

 

One day it will come back to haunt us. When the Shit Hits the Fan...and it will...we will not be able to interact with anyone face to face because we have lost these skills in society.

Jim

how connected are we….Really??

We talk all the time of how connected we now all are. Connected to what, I ask? Connected to Facebook updates but not the people beside us? To Twitter status updates of celebrities, ‘influencers’, hustlers but not updating our neighbour next door? Or texting money donations to causes around the world but leaving our friends and community members who are in need, alone and without….how is that connected ?

 

Jim

Time to replace beaver national emblem with polar bear, senator says.

I say are you freaking kidding me? What a waste of time and money, but that really  is so typical of our Senate.

 

Time to replace beaver national emblem with polar bear, senator says. Do you agree?:

A Canadian senator is calling for the industrious beaver to step aside for a new, more intimidating official national emblem: the polar bear.

(Via Calgary Herald - News)

 

 

 

 

Jim

Why is it so hard to get Mac's into the Enterprise?

 

Read this article at ARS Technica yesterday and all it managed to do was get me pissed off again!!

I have seen first hand that Windows dominant  departments or IT eggheads I call them seem to only see through the world of Microsoft, and don't give Macs a second thought because they have been brought up to think that Macs are expensive, difficult to integrate and support and most importantly, that Macs are toys!!!

If they only knew that Macs are Unix Systems, that may interest them, but Windoze IT people don't want to learn another DOS prompt system because DOS is primitive to begin with and so the thinking continues. Also that legacy mentality is from the 1990's, and most IT managers simply don't have a clue as to how far Macs have come to simplicity and ease of use when it comes to supporting them and integrating into Windows environments.

As Steve Jobs would say, “ And one more thing,” ….Macs are pretty much self supporting as they don't require constant hand holding that Windows machines need and that would jeopardize their jobs! So this is probably the primary reason that IT professionals don't look at Macs...they like machines that break, not ones that work.

Enterprise IT managers need to get with the program and start listening to what their business is asking for and not dictating…..just saying….

Jim