My word Bangkok has changed since I first came here more than 30 years ago. In those days old women would be cooking food on the street charging virtually nothing to a tourist, maybe 20 BAHT for one of my favourite dishes, som tum. I would be staying in a dorm type room for less [...]
A great speech by Macron, one of the best given of late by a world leader. Not just about the great war, but also about the future and the next generation. I hope we can live up to his ideas and become humans of the globe rather than parochial citizens of the nation state. Patriotism [...]
Dear fellow coma victim's, I'm doing a second post graduate diploma in computing, in Artificial Intelligence which is an interest of mine, potentially a vocation. I hope so having worked in IT for many years. I have posted about AI, there is a category called artificial on the coma page. I think AI is the [...]
Here again, it's close to home and a great place despite the arduous task of flying these days. The number of queues and passport checks at Singapore airport is incredible. I previously liked airports thinking everyone there was going to a new reality, they still are but the journey and customs checks are becoming tiresome. [...]
Dear fellow coma victims. If you can read and understand these words you have retained basic mental functions and can work on other defects. Some coma victims can't see. Similarly my most significant defect was the brains communication with body parts. I also experienced significant memory loss. I was told by doctors that the brain [...]
Brexit is a bad idea because the World is becoming more connected. I suspect the reason the English decided to leave the EU was to return to the glory days of the British empire. The world is becoming more connected through the internet and we shouldn't separate ourselves. A CNN commentator said countries that use [...]
Indicators are pointing to another Global Financial Crisis. Many smart economists are suggesting it's inevitable. Apparently it will be more severe than the last GFC in 2008, and will force us to re-evaluate human economy. Maybe we'll move past the use of money, cash, to assign value to everything. Maybe we will evolve. I think [...]
