Booking In

Time to get some bliblio-goodness and stuff it in my brain.

Buying books online is like an all you can eat dessert buffet. I walk up and down several times perusing what is on offer, making mental notes of what seems better quality and more exotic, all the while knowing that I will also return and take a portion of my very favourite comfort food as well (apple crumble yummmm!).

So this is what I just ordered from our good friends at Amazon to beat the Christmas shipping rush.

The Contrarian Effect: Why It Pays (Big) to Take Typical Sales Advice and Do the Opposite

If there is a more exciting way of doing things I will, even if it means doing exactly the opposite of what everyone else is doing.

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey

Ever since I first watched Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED talk I have been meaning to get her book. Her passion about her subject and expressing what she experienced really got under my skin. Hope the book is as good as the movie!

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

I really must change the Brain Rules link over there —> I have read at least half a dozen books since then. I am getting this one because of a poke in the conscience I got from professional a week or so back. Brain Rules touches on the core subject of this book, humans are meant to move and learn, not sit an learn … that gives me an idea.

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Old Seth doesn’t do it for me like he used to, but leadership is one of my passions and he does say things that gets my head into higher gear.

Flip Video Camcorder: 60-Minutes (White)

I have a little video camera….somewhere. It disappeared into the ether the other week. Great excuse to buy a little Flip because I “need” one and the price on this one is too hard to pass up.

B.A.D Poverty

Blog Action Day 2008. The day when bloggers around the world write about a pressing issue. This year is poverty.

Have you seen poverty? Up close?

My travels in Vietnam and India took me to places that were bereft of any forms of modern comfort. A roof made from garbage, over a dirt floor and an open fire for cooking; was all that designated one family from another.

This kind of poverty cannot be escaped. No miracles will pluck the deserving from the muck. Money rarely trickles down this far, and the pennies that do are used for the absolute essentials. It is a life that we can only imagine and even then I doubt if we could really understand.

I have my own (probably horribly naive) thoughts about poverty. How some economies depend on it. How those economies require the equivalent of human dung beetles who turn garbage/effluent into usable items for existance. Still we as humans can do better (yet I don’t think our western type lifestyles are the “better”).

So I support the notion of micro-lending and have put money into Kiva. Where the local (women mostly) entrepreneurs build businesses that will help their local area (and remember these businesses are still streets above those in extreme poverty) because the more “real” money that starts circulating at that level the more there will be to trickle down even further.

Just a thought….

Twitter Updates for 2008-09-10

• @allisonr @harmonicbarbie Yippee! I’m in, I’m in! (@MizzCindy said) <– yay another happy #SWBN member #
• @LisaHartwell my life is still truly blessed, just getting the crud out of the way in one concentrated patch….like ripping off a bandaid! #
• @SusanVLewis Yay welcome aboard! which link and I’ll check the code #
• @SusanVLewis Thanks Susan… all fixed now (could kick myself, I had tested, then edited later grrrr…perfectionist in me us screaming) #
• oooh macupdate has another bundle of apps up for say http://www.mupromo.com/deal/593/bundle #
• 9 months from today will be the arrival of a massive group of #doomsday babies…watch the gov go broke form that bonus payout #
• Parents don’t let your underage daughters drive at 200kph http://twurl.nl/88grwo in Granny’s imprezza…. #
• @martin_english alas i have been fixed, and back in my day we did not get the baby bonus, if we did I would have 3 million kids! #
• I can has animated favicon because I likes it #
• @Alegrya I have had my gall bladder out… prepare for some major changes after if you have to have yours removed #
• Checking out where visitors to #SWBN are from ( http://twurl.nl/8h7ud8 ) US, Australia and Europe…and Israel! #

Twitter Updates for 2008-09-09

• @philoscribe did it come through yet? I can see that others are getting theirs and joining up so gathering it is ok with aWeber at thistage #
• @KarenKramer lovely to have you with us! #
• Avoiding Pregnant Pauses: Tips for a Smooth Segue http://tinyurl.com/6cf55m (@LisaHartwell said) <– I often cause those pauses! :- o lol #
• waiting to wave at @trib before heading for a hot beverage #
• @zgirlie not nosey at all! It is a place for women to develop their online buisiness skills, to mastermind and build business relationsh … #
• Lunch…. time for NOMS! #
• @trib back from lunch and saying Hi to #austradeadviser08 . Sell more Kangaroo meat… I love it! #
• @kerryank or sex them… which is highly paid… but not highly paid enough if you ask me! #
• time for a coffee and an hour on a spreadsheet… oh joy #
• @andrewsayer I’d rather a semi automatic machine gun thanks! #
• Spreading a little reality in the IE forums, we ain’t in Kansas any more Toto. #
• @zgirlie let me have a look and see what is happening. I think aweber was undergoing maintenance this morning, but I will check again #
• @zgirlie sarahbelle you are confirmed ! and an email should wing its way to you as soon as Gmail lets it through the spam gates! #
• Myer melbourne is on fire… wonder if they will sell the smoke damamged stuff in NZ again this time? #
• @Rich_Horwood we just put the wireless network in there this year and we rebuilt the Myer hobart network that burned down at christmas #

Twitter Updates for 2008-09-08

• Home from the salt mines after not twittering ALL DAY. very productive day, and about to become even more productive wahey! #
• Retweeting @damana: Blocking my first person ever.<— 300 people wonder if it is them #
• @LisaHartwell welcome back and glad to see you feeling better! #
• @backd00r_benny seig hiel and all of that eh wot? #
• IM Lady friends… announcement tomorrow JUST for you #
• Sleeps time, much completed today….must keep pushing on tomorrow though. #