Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
Amma
Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
Amma
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
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Surely some revelation is at hand;
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What rough beast, its hour come round at last,
slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats
Humor me on this cloudy Friday morning by taking a wild guess at how many women CEO’s there are in Fortune 1000 companies in 2009. Continue reading
Dust, paint, cables, desks…We have been reorganizing our office and getting a few long overdue upgrades to the network infrastructure.
Various projects have been going on for a few weeks now. Office cabling is currently underway. We are hoping that it will all finish within the next two (or so) weeks. Or so we really, fervently, and wholeheartedly hope. :)
Here is today’s story, coming to you via my cell phone camera, Twitpic, and Twitter: Continue reading
PlayPump is a merry go-round for children to play. Behind the scenes, it is also a water pump. While the children are playing and having fun, they are also pumping water into a storage tank for their community’s use. It seemed like an elegantly simple concept and very cool technology. After years of favorable press and lots of money, the initiative seems to be on the rocks. Continue reading