Category Archives: Eccentric Truths

Common sensical rules that work (or don’t work)

A South African present

I frequently come across conversations where some young person is discussed and it is shared that they do not have a hope for the future. With that there are the assumptions that you should be able to see your own future and that if you only have a positive attitude then South Africa is a [...]

Why start with Monday?

Seriously, why should I start with a Monday? I don’t have a boss that tells me what to do when. I do not have a set schedule that force me to view the week in a certain way. The only thing I have is the weight of the rest of the world that tells me [...]

What have you been putting of lately?

Today is Saturday and it is a day we normally end up frustrated because nobody really gets to do what they want to do. Ostensibly we are supposed to do a family thing but it does not always work out that way.
Well, today we did something we have been putting of for a while, we [...]

A sobering thought for website design

I have just been contracted to design two websites. In the bigger scheme of things they are small projects that will not change the internet in any way at all. But I also came across this blog post today.
The post is about Facebook’s login and what happened is that a lot of people mistook [...]

How you can make a weakness a strength

Or, what if Ralph Waldo Emerson had it wrong?
The relationships between weaknesses and strengths is as complex as our personalities. We all seem to have a weakness that can cripple us. We see ourselves as an imperfect model of the perfect human being.
Who is this perfect human being we model ourselves upon? Because from this [...]