Black morning.
Clouds, muggy and moody,
Smother the mouth
of the city.

Thousands of bodies
Slide to the grind,
Underground.
Faces straight and indifferent.
Lost
in folds of paper
and fatigue.

Walls plastered with
Where to go
What to wear
What to buy

Thousands of bodies,
Thousands of faces.

Each a different form
of an endless You.

You’ll often hear about the life-changing benefits of meditation and how it can release a deep, lasting contentment. But did they tell you how it can throw a spanner in the works of day-to-day life?…

‘Lotus Date’ by Anadi.

Have you ever been to a meditation class where you can’t concentrate for the deep-breathing of the new boy? Film-maker, Anadi, certainly has…

‘Breathe’ Movie

There are plenty of wrongs to right in the world. We can but deal with one at a time…

I don’t know about you, but email spam really annoys me. There’s something repulsive about deceitfully and repeatedly forcing useless products onto millions of people who really couldn’t care less about viagra logo enhancements or anything else on offer. So…

Take Action
If you’ve ever made your email address public on a website, the chances are that it’s been detected by a spam robot and added to its database.

For the benefit of such bots, I’ve written a little script to churn out scores of random addresses, with a link to a page that has more of the same. The result is the SpamPit. May they never come out again…

To Add a SpamPit to your Website… Read more…

I read today on the Al Jazeera website that google are expanding their news search engine to include news archives from the last 200 years. I guess this will be a fantastic thing for journalists and researchers alike - giving them access to a wonderful perspective of history when writing articles.

Then I looked a little closer at which archives would be covered - “The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine and The Washington Post.” - all notoriously american publications.

Google is fast becoming (or already is) the global search engine of choice, does their american orientation mean that our global history will start to be viewed increasingly through star-spangled lenses?