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This is a video of a talk that Jon Kabat-Zinn gave at Google, and it's a great introduction to the basic ideas of "mindfulness". I've got his book which I'm still reading and slowly digesting. I felt a lot better after watching this, so I thought I'd pass it on :)
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So the BBC have launched their new homepage after trialling it as a beta for quite a while. On the whole I think it's pretty cool, a smart clean design, and good fun to mess about with all the content customisation options. But, for the same reason I can't help thinking that I'm missing something important that my personal content selection isn't highlighting, and that it's somehow better to leave those kinds of editorial decisions to the professionals...
I never knew that Brontosaurus was just a misclassification of a previously-named genus until watching an episode of QI the other day. There's an artist's impression of a Brontosaurus in the dinosaur book I've had since i was a kid, I even told Kate about them the other day before having to correct myself and tell her they never existed! She took it in her stride though :)
This is just great, hours of inspiration and envy...
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I've launched a new version of the site today, new design and new content. There are still a few dusty corners around, and I've got a lot of re-aligning and tweaking to do over the next few weeks, but i felt it was solid enough to unleash on the world!
One or two pages on the journal don't validate, it's nothing spectacular though, I'm using the new light-weight blogging engine Chyrp to power the journal now, it's pretty cool, very new, and currently undergoing a major rewrite, so I'm not getting too involved in the styling/details/validation of the journal until the new version is released in the next few weeks...
If you see anything odd let me know...