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OK, so why the zen bones thing?

About 20 years ago I stumbled upon a book called "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones". Being vegetarian - the "flesh" bit didn't grab me, but the short pithy Zen stories inside it, did.

Ever since then my web nick has been zenbones, my Hotmail, my Gmail address, you name it. It's kinda stuck.

Is the blog about Zen? Nope.

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November 18

California wildfires (yet again) - The Big Picture

Another stunning series of images from The Boston - click through for the full set.

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November 13

SPAM reduces by two-thirds!

The news just in that a major spammer network has been taken (shut) down is great news for the rest of us.

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Irritated.me

by Steve Mathew

Yes, I’m Irritated (again). Back in July the .ME domain registrar opened for business. I saw a few great investment opportunities in snapping up some prime “mycooldomainname.me” real estate. I blogged about it here.

So, I was irritated (and amazed) that I lost out then and came away empty-handed in my search for the ultimate .ME domain (OK, forget the ultimate name, I eventually would have settled for just about any lousydomainname.me)

So imagine my irritation now. In the news yesterday. The following sales of domain names were concluded:-

Date.me $70,000
Ask.me $20,000
clairvoyant.me $2,000
Publishing.me $2,500
Jazz.me $5,700
Show.me $10,000
Marry.me $12,000
Meeting.me $11,570

Whoah - that’s cracking Return on Investment of the ten dollars per name. See why I am so keen on domains as a speculative investment vehicle?!

Oh, by the way, what’s the deal with clairvoyant.me? Is clairvoyant now a verb?

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I just nominated digsby in the @mashable Open Web Awards. Nominate here: http://tinyurl.com/5r4ry3

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“ Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct the course along the way. Tim Ferriss

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November 12

Oh my … a totally self-driving car.

You have to watch this clip. The developers say this’ll be common place within 10 years. I love it!

I wonder if they will have driver “modes”. Let’s say I am feeling chilled, and not in a hurry so I flick the switch into “Chilled”, or I’m late, or feeling a little road-ragey, so I flick it into “Aggresive”.

Maybe there’s settings for “Granny Mode” where you go slowly, but leave a trail of destruction behind you. Or even “Mini-bus” mode - fast, loads of swerving, random stopping and shooting the occasional traffic light.

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November 11

Gmail launches voice and video chat

Nice.

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What a fun ad!

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Is it just me, or do your browser tabs get like this?

This was my situation yesterday - one thing leading to another. Dozens, maybe hundreds of micro-tasks. All day long driving at perhaps 1 or 2 major goals or missions - but all chopped up into tiny little bits.

It’s so easy to get lost along the way. So Steven Covey’s words are a good reminder, “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” Right, what was that again?

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November 10

“ I can tell you exactly why,” he said. “It’s because your wallpaper is so ugly. Oscar Wilde, when he was asked why he thought America was so violent.

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Facebook Widens The Gap With MySpace Internationally

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November 9

The next President of Basketball

You’ve got to love a president who plays basketball. Zuma? Nah.

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