Thursday, 6 January 2011

Tiny village in West Sussex sitting on 'black goldmine' worth half a billion dollars - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8243813/Tiny-village-in-West-Sussex-sitting-on-black-goldmine-worth-half-a-billion-dollars.html

Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html

Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

Faster Forward - Mac App Store launches, offers iLife, iWork and more

This changes everything, of course, with Intel and Microsoft, scrambling to get adjusted to market changes:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2011/01/mac_app_store_launches_offers.html

Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

Nvidia-AMD: Deal or no deal?

Industry restructuring in the offing. That's obvious.

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4076503/Nvidia-AMD-Deal-or-no-deal-

Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

Nvidia: ARM smartphones will bury x86 PCs

Wow!

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4208752/Nvidia-ARM-smartphones-will-bury-x86-PCs

Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

Nvidia to attack CPU market with ARM

The issue is really how fast the PC market will change. With ARM, Intel and NVidia in competition what will a future PC look like?

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4211928/Nvidia-to-attack-CPU-market-with-ARM?cid=NL_EETimesDaily

Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

Faster Forward - T-Mobile, LG announce G-Slate tablet

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2011/01/t-mobile_lg_announce_g-slate.html?wprss=fasterforward

Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

Faster Forward - Motorola unveils Atrix, a smartphone that's also a laptop

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2011/01/motorola_unveils_atrix_a_smart.html?wpisrc=nl_tech

Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

Faster Forward - Microsoft to ship Windows for ARM processors

This tightens down a loose end. Now, Microsoft joins the club!

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2011/01/microsoft_to_ship_windows_for.html?wpisrc=nl_tech

Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

Harmony and The Prince of Wales - a new way of looking at the world?

Prince Charles book entitled 'Harmony' stared at me in the local London Chapters bookstore. My memories of Charles come from a response I made to an English journalist who accused Charles of being a lessor person than Pope John, saying that Charles had not accomplished anything comparable to the Pope in his sorry life. My reaction was that I felt she was creating a little stir for self promotion. No! Charles contributions to humanity will never match those of the Popes, but my guess is that he is doing is less damage just the same.

Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales is the son of Queen Elizabeth and a protege of Lord Mountbatton, the eminent wartime leader. The Prince was divorced from Princess Diane, who was a spectacular human being comparable to Princess Elizabeth in the time of King James I. This Princess Elizabeth should not be confused with Queen Elizabeth I, and it is significant to me that she lived at the time of James I. In the UK, the enthusiasm and support for lovely promising princesses is truly remarkable, so when Princess Di passed, it was traumatic affecting all and sundry in a negative way, whether they liked Princess Di or not. Prince Charles was a target of anger not the least cause of which was that the death of Princess Di formed a dangling loose end, out of harmony with everyone's ideals.

When Charles married Camila, his mistress of many years and his true love, we all wanted to be in another history book in which such an event did not take place. But, we would be wrong, for the marriage did close off one dangling end, which was Prince Charles being with someone he did nit love and very alone. For my part, I loved the Prince as an ideal of good cheer, fun, and harmony. To me he was never an ogre or someone to think bad of. My views are not shared, but there they are! People experience harmony and discord in many different ways.

I, am not much different from many when I like to think in ideals. In an ideal world, the marriage of Princess Di and Charles would have succeeded and She would be alive today. That would be such harmony. Thus, when Prince Charles comes out with a book with the heading of harmony, a new way of looking at the world, I am slightly ill at ease. It's not that I am puzzled because I do regard Charles as a person in search of harmony, and as such I am enormously respectful of him and truly joyful that he has this bent in personality. I don't like or dislike him because he is so far removed from my world. He belongs to a fairyland of people that I could never believe myself associated. They are fascinating to me and form a pastiche of colour to what otherwise is a pretty dull world. Yes! The Royal Family and it's personages are an amazing addition to our lives and we would be all the poorer without them despite the notion that they are sustained at some cost to many of us. That I don't believe. For me the cost is significantly lower than the benefit that I receive in terms of it allowing me to forget the horror of the alternative which in our reality was a dictatorship under Hitler, or some such madman, or a system of government possessed by the Solviet Bloc of yesteryear.

My Queen Elizabeth apparently spoke of King James I with great respect and she did mention that he made a lasting contribution to English society through the effort of translating the Bible. This hits a soft spot for me because in the margins of the translation are the hand writing of someone who bears my name. I once came across it in Wells Cathedral, but I leave that to you as a puzzle if you are so inclined.

My reason for discussing Prince Charles and his harmony book are because his ideas are very similar to my own. I am currently playing an iPad game in which the object is to create a matrix of zen like harmony out of a maze of pieces that have different lines within the matrix. Harmony exists when all the loose ends are joined and thus eliminated. In zen harmony, there are no loose ends, or so it is assumed in the game. In my view, such a games very much like life in harmony, but the only problem is that we see total disharmony because our lives are not joined when we die. We are as it were dangling ends. Or, so it seems, but I believe otherwise. Do you?


Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

Unfortunate Redwing Blackbirds die in Massive Event Over Arkansas

What killed the Redwing blackbirds over Beebe, Arkansas? That is a mystery puzzling officials, scientists and the public in America and around the globe. Some fear a repetition and urge investigation in order that the cause or causes may be found.

The number of birds killed at one time is staggering. Some estimate as many as 5,000 in a three hour period. This means that many explanations can be eliminated because they are not plausible for such a large number of bird deaths in such a short period. There are suggestions of a common trauma event.

It's not unusual for birds to fly in huge flocks and it's plausible that they all flew within an airspace in which a natural event caught the birds suddenly in flight. Possibilities are temperature or electrical events, but the culprit would vanish as quickly as it appeared, so even though a storm situation is suspect, there is not firm evidence as yet. It may be possible to determine whether the event was hot or cold.

My own guess is that it was a cold event and may be associated with wind.

What do you think after reading the press?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343413/Birds-fall-sky-Blackbirds-literally-drop-dead-Arkansas.html

http://www.katv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13791490

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70534T20110106

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/05/AR2011010502625.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/photogalleries/110103-dead-birds-fall-from-sky-arkansas-pictures/


Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

Pakistan: Death of a liberal | The Economist

This is so sad that violence is an alternative to love!

http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/01/pakistan

Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

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