CO2 - They call if life, what do you call it?

This incredible piece of propaganda featured on the excellent "God is Green" Channel 4 documentary tonight. The look of the presenter when the clip had finished said it all.

The Channel 4 programme itself was insightful, with the presenter interviewing spokespeople for the Roman Catholic Church (no clue about climate change), Evangelicals (looking forward to it because it implies the end of the world and the second coming!), Hinduism (what will be will be, it’s karma) and Islam (the Koran is very green… and so are we, and we’ll blame climate change on the imperialist west).

The presenter did not (or was unable to / or chose not to show) interview a representative for the 376 million buddhists on this planet. This was disappointing, especially when you consider that the Dalai Lama’s Nobel prize in 1989 was, in part, awarded for his declaration that Tibet should be 'transformed into the world's largest natural park or biosphere.'

Embrace life's imperfections

Are you a perfectionist? Never satisfeid? What did you feel when you noticed that typo?

Since reading "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" many years ago, I've tried to take this mantra to heart: 'embrace life's imperfections'. If you're mathematically-minded, think of the following formula:
stress = the difference between expectation and reality.

We only ever progress when we learn to fall down and pick ourselves up again. I'd never considered that my brother would end up writing a book of his experiences of 'falling down', but he's just received his first reviews on Amazon, and I can't describe how proud I am.

Congratulations, Mark, on a fantastic new book, not forgetting your website to help share the wonder and magic of life with the world!

Virtual travel

How can technology enrich this journey we're all on? I'm pretty new to all this Web 2.0 stuff, so I'm going to experiment:

Step 1: This is a straightforward test to try publishing to my blog by email. (It works! - Ed)

Step 2: Set up Skype (easy!) so I can talk to Stair in Seattle (time zones mean I can talk to you on a Friday after work, just as you're facing yet another day in the office Stair! Heh heh).

Step 3: Add 'Snap' preview functionality to Blog (cool - but what's the benefit? Hmmm, need to think a bit about this).

Step 4: Set up Flickr Pro so I can archive public and private photo albums and share different ones with different sets of people.