Apr

21

Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3

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Mar '08
 
 

I’m trying some new plugins.  One of witch is a SPAM Comment Filtering plugin.  Some of the others include a Contact Form (below), a Weather Widget, a Rotating Quote Widget and a Recent Comments Widget.  Oh, I guess that means that the Comment section is now OPEN!! again and I’m also allowing search engines, etc to crawl my site so you may soon be able to find us on Google, etc.  Oh, and to keep things interesting here’s a picture of my beautiful daughter Morgan :-)

“Contact Us”  Go on try it…  [contact-form 1 "Contact form 1"]

Apr

21

Do you know about “TED”?

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I got this email today from my Boss who got it from his wife who got it from someone else.  I was aware of the TED Convention a year ago via an email from another friend.  I ended up I forwarding that email around and my Boss was one of the recipients.  He knew I was intrested in stuff like the TED Convention so I was sent this link today.  I think you’ll find it very intresting:

If you don’t already know about TED.COM you should.  I’ll give you more details about TED in this email, but I really want you to listen to this presentation by Sir Ken Robinson.

About the video clip:

Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity — are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. It’s a message with deep resonance. Robinson’s TEDTalk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4964296663335083307

Please take some time and listen to this presentation.  You will not be sorry.

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).

This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Common license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.

The website is: http://www.ted.com/