Intacrubalobient

 Is it possible to create a random word, and get it to be recognised by Google in a google search?

Then get at least 100 entries that contain the word in any web environment whatsoever..  Give it a go?

If we can achieve this we should consider ourselves to be intacrubalobient at word management within the Google framework!!!

The "location location" con when purchasing a property

The term "location-location" attributed to Harold Samuel, but was coined by many property marketeers to create a shortage of property in specific areas around the planet, so that the demand could be increased for specific areas defined. This further enabled smart exploiters to develop areas outside "location" at a low cost and later create a new "location" label for these new areas, once the original areas had become saturated  (with ongoing demand keeping prices high) - ... and so the same process goes on!!  A case of brilliant marketing or what??

The future of Digitization

Whether we like it or not, the digitization of our planet will continue. In the old days, we called it automation and robotics. It then developed into computers, personal organisers, smart phones.

Why should "digitization" continue when we can just choose to go back to the old days of pen and paper?.  Those who have that view, have completely missed out on the script of life. The key point is the evolution of humanity has been based upon increased order from the chaos that mankind evolved from. The planet started out as a large rock mass with holes and crevices within which water flowed (distinguishing solids from liquids was a matter of "temperate" balance). It eventually settled into a mass of those rocks and softer land tissue combining to form land, much of it soft tissue that enabled the growth of plants, through it's favourable chemical makeup to the harder more solid rocky surfaces that mainly peaked into the air and dominated the higher grounds.

Following this (vastly over-?)simplified version of the earths evolution, and without further digression, it is clear that the evolving animal of mankind wanted a more ordered environment in which they could function at a much more comfortable level, and create the ideal natural levels of order from which they could excel in further advancing this cause. Many technological developments could then be attributed to this state, and these developments give us the impetus to further investigate the reason for our existence, or to further evolve and see where it takes us?

The key basis of our development is to establish the "reason" for our existence, and this should be easy to establish from a simple rational model of comparing ourselves to the other animals that we share our planet with. Given that we see ourselves as "higher, and more evolved" beings, than the rest of animal life, we therefore assume that we set the agenda on how our planet continues to evolve.

This is where our supremacy as an animal race ends, as it's based on many highly misguided assumptions and premises that may not hold true. For example, it appears that we are the only mammals that have evolved into developing systems of automation, machines etc., and achieved levels of communications that have moved us way beyond other animal life in terms of our evolution. Yet we also possess the greatest threat to the security and stability of mammals sharing the earth with their fellow creatures, as well as all others equally deserving of a continued existence on this planet as a result of their endeavours to survive. The reasons for all of this is really quite simple when properly evaluated, and that is because we've effectively taken control of the destiny of a lot of what goes on on our planet as a species, yet we lack the fundamental abilities to share our planet in terms of habitat management. i.e. Developing a system of habitat sharing our planet with all other homo-sapiens that can allow us the space to further develop as a unitary species.
















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On this, the 100th year since the beginning of the Great War (World War 1), it's time to reflect (AND LEARN) from what happened:

Over the last number of years, we've often read / heard statements such as:

• "Our soldiers went to war and bravely battled and died to save our country"

• "We should remember those that died during the war, so we could be free,  as those brave men fought, and died for our freedom"

Well, lets accept that there were so many unfortunate deaths, but to cut to the chase, What exactly did they save our country from?, and what freedoms do we have as a result of their deaths?. Any answers to these questions would be greatly appreciated, and possibly, hotly debated.

We need to redefine our value system in a global context,.. then just let that boat sail out from the shore....

If you were to extrapolate the current human race forward in terms of population growth while, at the same time, achieving a better quality of life for all, the conditions to create this path are hardly rocket science!  :)

Accept the status of "genius" if that's your path

Writing your thoughts can be very powerful: "I am a genius" is awesome if you write it, internalise it, and truly believe it, and if that is the case, who can dispute it?. After all geniuses can forget which door they came in!!

True Inner interpretations of what you are, who you are and what you represent....

I believe that many of our great people did NOT know the in-depth answer to these questions, and therefore many of them lived a much lesser fulfilling life than they might otherwise have, or than many of us care to realize

How to measure different types of matter (with slide-rule accuracy)

The concept of MATTER is interesting. What is even more interesting is the co-incidental name given to matter, as I would question whether matter really matters?.

Take the shortest distance between two points, from a physics point-of-view: This occurs (in a measurable way) at some atomic level, when in fact at a gigantic level where the universe is possibly part of another sub-atomic world, you couldn't get the point of a needle between the sun and the earth!!.. Hence, the measurement systems we take as absolute, are in fact relative..  Relative to the tolerances accepted between the two "points" and distance system in between being measured!..  "Food for thought this Christmas"

How about paying for your shopping on a monthly basis (on your loyalty card)?

The economic system we're living in has, over the last number of years, evolved from being a "pay as you go"  (fixed one off payments) society to becoming a "period-pay" (regular fixed monthly payments) society.  An example is the phone systems we use, where we (largely) moved from landlines to mobile phones, where we now commonly pay a fixed monthly fee, regardless of how much we use (based, of course, on a fair usage policy). In the old days, you paid a small monthly fee, and your final fee was based on your usage.
Now it's becoming more and more based on a monthly model.

Hence I foresee this trend continuing into the future, whereby this will extend to other business models. e.g. On average you might pay €40-50/day for your daily shop, where Supermarkets might adopt a system whereby you use a loyalty card to shop each day for free, but you pay up front a fee of (say) €300/week. These models are very attractive for suppliers, as they provide a guaranteed monthly income, making revenues much easier to predict into the future. Hence I expect this fixed periodic payment model will become the norm for society in the future across a range of business offerings.

Big Companies /Corporations + Government Organisations Versus The Trade Unions: Traditional model revamped

The future of disputes or differences between the powers that be (Big Companies / Corporate bodies and  Government based organisations) and the representatives of the Productive system (the new proletariat) in (e-) commerce will not be done with the traditional Trade Union model, of balloting members, organizing it-ins, having lengthy meetings that mainly consist of arguments set to create a gap between both sides, the outcome of which more often than not results in some sort of strike action (workers stop working for a period of time).......

Finding our Kindred spirit (s)

When it comes to relationships (and I don't mean specifically romances boy/girl relationships.. I mean any human relationships, whether friend, family member or someone you just click with) I always wondered about the source of a kindred spirit, and by that I mean that if you really click with someone (in whatever domain, or level of intensity), there must be something behind this unbeknown co-incidental magical relationship that transcends the current state of play that lie between both parties. i.e. The energy providing such a relationship is coming from a source we do not yet understand, perhaps genetic, hereditary, or something we feel an affinity with without knowing why. For example I used to believe in class division, in that someone from a higher class or standard of living could not identify with someone else from a more working class environment (or someone often referred to as a peasants

(originally written 3rd Sept 2011)

Should you collect your random thoughts and publish them?

Do random thoughts really count for anything, or are they just meaningless pieces of useless information. Well in part it depends on who's expressing them, what they are about, and how well they are articulated and constructed, and even then they can either be quite useless, or highly valuable snippets of information..  Examples of useless include where they provide no information of any use, and to the vast majority of readers make very little, if any sense at all.. Whereas examples of highly valuable, is where they are very interesting for the reader, provide some deep sense of inspired reaction, and in many cases sort out some issue the reader has had for a very long time...

ok..  Now I've got that off my chest..  Time to go back to bed!!!

Is the term "Surfing the net" dead and gone?

Is the act of "randomly" surfing the net a dying trend?: When the internet first started, people used to surf the net randomly out of pure fascination. They would try to find sites they never heard or, or even more bizarre, create fictitious website names (of things and places they know) and see if there is a corresponding website. 

The scientists versus the sceptics! their call?!

  Status update   By Fin Matthews

MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: LATEST SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY:

Scientists have just discovered that people tend to believe scientists views ahead of any other groups. After carrying out some research on a group of skeptics, and publishing the findings in the format: "sceptics have just discovered", the scientists found that this didn't have anywhere near the same impact as if scientists had discovered the same thing. In fact, once skeptics had propounded the same idea, it was more likely to be not-accepted or even shunned by the general public:

Further research is being carried out in this area (by sceptics!) and the results won’t ever be published, unless of course, the scientists(!) can be included!!..

The (non) Richest men in Ireland

An area of interest in recent  years has been the fascination with how the (once) richest men in Ireland, have now fallen from grace and have such huge debts, it is hard for the average person to comprehend.

One case in point was the fall of the Quinn Groups founder Sean Quinn, who at one time (er... NOT so long ago!) looked like he was going to take over the country he was getting so rich. But, apart from the set-in of the usual recessionary factors, such as the collapse in property prices, and the banks being exposed, Sean quinn also had the additional financial exposure of having gambled on a failing bank (the Anglo Irish Bank), and compromising his risk portfolio on in his insurance business, which turned out to be a double whammy to him in terms of getting hit by the recession in more than normal. Recent figures published (which of course are not necessarily accurate) quoted Sean Quinn as having debts in the region of 2.5b, against assets in the region of 0.5b (500million). Imagine during the boom times being told you have assets worth €500million, but you are still in serious financial trouble!!.   It seems many people belive that Sean Quinn can still rise from his financial difficuties and regain his position as one of the countries richest men in the future, but eh, is'nt a guy now who is broke (has no money) in a much better position?..  After all, he's only ahead of Sean Quinn by about €2billion, which sure takes some catching up!!..

Just to put this in some sort of perspective: One of Americas richest men Donald Trump boasts having been a multi-millionaire, then gone broke and got back there, and is now worth about $2.7b (€1.9b), hence to put Sean Quinns debt in persective, he now has to make up the total sum of Donald Trumps current worth to be at Zero wealth, and then work from there!... Phew!!..  A tall order by anybodies standards!!..

Irish Supermarket chain SuperQuinn is Not such a "Super" Quinn to it's suppliers

This has got to be one of the most amazing business stories I've come across in recent years. For those not familar with it, here's how it goes: A successful Supermarket chain called "SuperQuinn", (originally started in Dundalk, but obtained most of it's growth within the Dublin area) named after it's founder Feargal Quinn, is sold to a consortium called "Select Retail Holdings" in 2005. This consortium seemed to be heavily property oriented (as opposed to having a retail bias), and hence, as a result of what could now be called "speculative" property investments round the Dublin area became financially distressed, owing the banks around €400m. So the banks SUDDENLY decide to have the Company brought into receivership, then selling it to Musgraves, who in turn take on little of none of the debt, thereby assurign the banks of a good percentage of their money back, Musgraves are happy to bag a bargain, but many shareholders, and suppliers are heavily stung losing millions in the process!!.. What an easy way to write off substantial debt, and not get punished for it!!..

Microsoft, Bill Gates retirement from active service, and the future of Software development

Being largely a contemporary of Bill Gates, and having grown up in the world of computers and IT as I did, and then having to live alongside the Worlds richest man being my pier, it was quite demanding having to keep up with the worlds richest man!!..

Information management is key to successful living

Information or "data" management is key to successful living simply it influences our decision making processes in pretty much all aspects of our lives (not just our working / professional lives!).. From organizing our diaries, and scheduling our task lists (or to-do lists) we rely on the structure of what we enter to help remind us of our true priorities

The Internet is a good place to be this Christmas (Winter?!)

With so many sporting events off (horse racing, football, rugby, you name it!), and television reaching an all time low in entertainment value, most holiday makers! (yes those who'll be enjoying the festive season in front of their Computers!) will be indulging more than usual on the Internet. So what does this mean for you?

How to avoid becoming a slave to making money!!

The goal is to help you make enough money to get you where you want to be!.. not to get you where you want to be to make loads of money!!..        Why?..