All Entries in the "General" Category

Dealing with people who bring us down.

In life, we get to meet a huge number of people, however there are always some that are very difficult to deal with. These are often people we don’t like, and we can have a tendency to avoid them at all costs. Staying out of the range of their radar may be the right solution, [...]

Why you need to think carefully about your friendships

Watch out! There are plenty of false friends about!
I am sure many of you have heard about those people who fell on hard times of one kind or another and discovered how few real friends they had.
What not so many people are aware of is that some apparent friends will not only abandon you once [...]

Learn To Code At Any Level With Google Code University

One of the things which I love about the Internet is the way it facilitates study.
In the past I have written posts about this aspect. Today I want to highlight an excellent article on learning code by David Pierce:
Learn To Code At Any Level With Google Code University
Google Code University is an excellent resource for [...]

Are you a tryer?

Are you someone who thinks that they will try to achieve something?
Someone who says they will try when presented with a challenge?
Or are you someone who says “I will”
“Trying is lying. There is no such thing as trying. You do
it or you don’t. You get results in life or you have
excuses why you didn’t. When [...]

Step through fear

“Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.”
– Brendan Francis
Try it sometime!
Here’s some more food for thought…
Mr Fear knocked at the door; Mr Faith answered and there was nobody there.
I suggest you have a careful think about the above concepts and how they might apply to [...]

Public speaking – here is a great resource.

Public speaking is something that frightens lots of people.
Public speaking used to frighten me; much more so than most people too. I was the kid that got out of performing in school plays (yes, really – I was so desperate that I managed it) and even dodged in class reading once by jamming a torn [...]

Scientists Find that Low Self-Esteem & Materialism Goes Hand in Hand

Just a quick post – the title says it all.
Click here:
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/01/scientists-find.html

PS: The Daily Galaxy blog has some very interesting leading edge scientific stuff.

Mac user? More than 100 free applications for OS X.

Back in the mid 90’s I had a Mac. That was before Windows 95 became ubiquitous. As time passed I found the Mac increasingly limiting, partly because so many applications either didn’t work well, or were not available in Mac format. Even today this is still an issue and much functionality that was once only [...]