Will you please be my Valentine?


I first met you in the Armed Forces, which seems a unlikley place To find yourself meeting a soul-mate, a girl with a heavenly face. But in my case I was very lucky, even though you then lived interstate I knew soon after I met you, that our lives were to be bound by fate. … Continue reading Will you please be my Valentine?

Words


Words. Crafted by a determined agitator, words can divide a nation. Spoken by a peaceful activist, they can unite a people. A single word contrasted by an azure canvass can extend the hand of brotherhood to a fellow countryman, conveying the hurt and shame felt for a previous generation's wrongs. Written by a devious man … Continue reading Words

Boundaries – Separation of professional and social online identities


Social media plays a pretty big part in my blogging / skeptical / scicom life, as it brings our truly global community together, allowing quite rapid collaboration and communication with thought leaders, content creators, researchers, writers and so-forth. The usual suspects, Twitter and Facebook, have served me well, and I now routinely communicate with other … Continue reading Boundaries – Separation of professional and social online identities