Today's blog post is a look forward to the future by a visit to the past:

Children Chapter IV
by Khalil Gibran


And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children."

And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Banned By Paypal

I read somewhere that being banned by Paypal was a little like catching chicken pox. It is not a question of whether you will be banned, but when.

But, unlike chicken pox which goes away after a while, being banned by Paypal is apparently for life.

Soon after I wrote the article criticizing them for the violin thing, I found out that I had been banned by Paypal.

After many phone calls asking why they have banned me, despite not having a very active account, I have not discovered the reason. Apparently all this time I have been a dangerous risk to their business and they do not want to have any dealings with subversives like me.

So, I have started the procedure of trying to find out why they have banned me through official channels.

I'll keep you posted about how I get on.

How to Survive Procrastination

Hi there, I've been meaning to write about procrastination for a very long...

...hang on, the email thingy just made the new noise, I changed the computer theme and now it goes 'Briiiiiiiiing!' instead of bing-bong. It might be an important message.

No, well it was just someone trying to get me to buy carbon credits again.

Procrastination is the art of avoiding the main...

...I wonder if anyone has liked my new photo on Facebook? I'll just check. My friends are all so great you know, as soon as I put something up, I get about a million 'likes', I don't want to hurt their feelings by not replying straight away!

Psychologists think that we procrastinate to avoid the pain of having to do a tough...

...my how time flies! I didn't realise it was lunch time already. I've been looking forward to this so much today, I made a special lunch for myself today.

Two o'clock! Time to work.

Other reasons that psychologists give for our procrastinatory tendencies is delayed gratifi...

...Is 'procrastinatory' a word? There is a great online dictionary called Onelook. It references dictionaries from all over the world.

Well, I honestly have no idea how I ended up on YouTube!

I pride myself in being maybe the only person left in the world who has not seen the Gangnam Style video! Yes, well, of course I've watched the parodies, I'm not a total Neanderthal!

But its cats! In water! They are sooooo funny!

Hang on a sec, I've just got to email this to 300 of my closest friends. They'll kill me if they find out I've watched it without forwarding it.

Phew, that only took an hour! It was a lot longer last time.

Wow, 5 o'clock. I know! I'm going to take this work home with me. Yes, well, you know, I do work hard all day so I shouldn't have to, but they do rely on me here to get everything done on time and so I take it home as a matter of pride more than anything else.

See you tomorrow for another hard working day!
















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