Frazers Thoughts and Adventures

Writer's Block: God For a Day

2008-08-06T19:35:47Z

If you could be God for a day, what three things would be at the top of your to-do list?

1. get all humans to agree upon working otgether to make the world how they want it.
2. get all humans to make a to do list of just the most amazing things they could do for the world.
3. give all humans a life changing exprience, either hrough some holy magic or by guiding a global meditation, so that all people saw this world as the most important thing, and lived every day completely devoted to making it happen

be careful on your impact

2008-08-06T19:30:20Z

I think this video is really cute

enjoy

another retreat center

2008-04-18T19:26:05Z

I am staying at a retreat center in Scotland.

meditation 5 times a day.

contemplating how to unite as much of the world in to a functional team of optimal life enhancement.

dragon baby boy

2008-02-24T19:30:06Z

This is a message for Tanya,

from
dragon baby boy

aka

baby dragon boy

aka

Frazer, aka fraser, frazier, frasier.

meeting you on that train trip was really nice.

wish I had spoken to you earlier

get in touch.

frazer@frazerk.net

frazer @ 2007-06-29T14:06:00

2007-06-29T13:20:53Z

Yesterday I performed at the same gig I did last week.

This weeks host only gave me 5 minutes... Imagine that, doing a meditation, with strangers, in 5 minutes...

So I started by telling them I didn't have enough time, so I just wanted them to pretend that I had already put them all in a trance... oh my god, it worked. Most people closed their eyes and immediately started to imagine tranforming their lives.

The day before I went to London to film the Kendra Cross Media Summit for Content Discovery Conference.

It was great, great speakers, great concepts, and constructive idea development. I was the camera man for the day, I cant believe how much it effects how you take information in while you are concentrating on other things. People asked me my thoughts during the break, and I just looked blank.

Afterwards I caught up with some friends, we went to a raw vegan restuarant in Soho, then I spent 4 hours getting a tour of the city from this awesome Jamacan football player. He was great, we just kept inspiring each other, he inspiring me to be always megafun, and constant good vibes, and I enlightening him to consciously design great thoughts. I caught the bus back to Oxford at 2:30 in the morning. it was a great day trip.

Moved to Oxford

2007-06-22T18:50:27Z

I am now living in Oxford,

Before leaving Adelaide I spent much much time with my friends,
we were meditating together every day,
consolidating our values, and strengtehning our best qualities.

I then spent a month traveling Australia,
seeing friends and doing positive thinking sessions with as many people as I could.

I then spent a week in Melbourne at Armagh,
the Australian center for Initiatives of Change.

I then spent a few days in Canberra,
visiting the research physics labs of ANU.

On to Sydney to see the Confest organisers,
then up to the Blue Mountains to stay at
The Earth Repair Center.

My last week was in Brisbane.
I went to the the Brahma Kumaris center for some meditations with friends.

Flying through Seoul was grand,
the countryside is magestic with mountains spanning the horizon.

I have since spent a week in Oxford,
going to the One World Festival in Woodstock,
and the Oxford Mela.
I found Oxford ARC,
the Action Resource Center,
we planned the new phase for the center,
and rejuvinated the place with a big cleanout.

I performed at a really funky gig called CatWeasel.
Mind magic... peace and tranquility mental journeys.
Sweet, it went down really well

I had my brain scanned at the Oxford MRI center today to take part in a memory study.

I have made some great friends, one of whom is sharing her allotment with me,
so I have a great place to grow my own healthy, organic food.

Onwards and upwards.

frazer @ 2007-04-08T18:19:00

2007-04-08T08:50:44Z

I cant belieive how similar this group is to my dream
From idealist.org/imagine

Can You Imagine a Better World?

On this page we invite you to imagine a better community and a better world, and to see how we can build it together, starting right now. Click on the photos to see what people are saying about this project, and then take a moment to see why this is needed, how it will work, and how you can get involved. And on the week of April 23-29, join us, wherever you are, to help launch this initiative with a series of start-up meetings around the world. Thank you!

1. What do we mean by a better world?
2. The challenge: so many missed connections
3. The opportunity: we have so much in common
4. How? Like stores and libraries
5. Some solutions
6. Getting started
7. What you can do right now

1. What do we mean by a better world?

We want to live in a world where all people can live free and dignified lives, where any person who wants to help another can do so, and where no opportunities for action and collaboration are missed or wasted.

That's the vision, the ultimate goal. To get closer to it, we believe that:

All over the world there are many people who share similar values, dreams, and challenges.
With all the tools we have now, we can communicate like never before.
If all of us had more opportunities to connect and work together, online and face-to-face, in neighborhoods, villages, schools, and workplaces, the world would be a different place.

How different? We don't know, but together we can find out.

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2. The challenge: so many missed connections

Photo by Alvazer

There is a good chance that right now, on different floors of an apartment building somewhere in your country, two people are looking out their windows and wishing there were a garden or a playground below instead of a dirty lot. But acting alone can be difficult, and in many neighborhoods, both rich and poor, there is no way for people to know that they are not alone—that down the street, or two floors above or below them, there may be others who would gladly work with them if they only knew where or how to find them.

This problem is part of a bigger challenge: to get involved in our community, most of us need a few things in place. We need some hope and some trust, a minimum of freedom, and access to others who may want to work with us. In addition, we may need more information about the problems we want to solve, stories and ideas from people who have dealt with similar issues, and options for action that make sense to each of us.

Some people have access to all this, but many others do not. As a result, millions of opportunities for action and collaboration are missed every day. Think only of one neighborhood, one school, or one village you know, and of how much more could be done there with the available resources. If you then add up these unfulfilled possibilities all over the world, the picture that emerges can be both exhilarating and heartbreaking. Here are some more examples:

With over six million NGOs and nonprofit organizations working on every possible issue, most social and environmental problems have been tackled somewhere in the world. Unfortunately, many organizations with great programs lack the means to reach everyone who needs them.
In any school, children of all ages may have good ideas about how to improve their school or their community, but these ideas are seldom heard, and these students may have no way of connecting with one another.
In every large company there are people who care about human rights or the environment, for example, or who would like to help their business get more involved in their community, but in many cases there is no way for these people to find one another throughout the company.
Across the Internet, thousands of online newspapers bring us news that can sadden or anger us, but very few have a link that says: "Click here to do something about any of these issues."
Every day thousands of international flights take off with empty seats. Why not carry some volunteers who want to spend a year working in a different country?

This sense of unrealized potential is one engine driving this project. The other is a conviction that working together across our differences we can do something about it.

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3. The opportunity: we have so much in common

Photo by Bossa67When athletes from all over the world get together for an international competition, the differences among them are clear. They speak different languages, and they come from a variety of ethnic, political, and religious backgrounds. Yet despite these differences, they all have much in common. They all want to win, they all want good weather and a good field to play on, and, most importantly, they all agree on the rules under which their respective sports should be played.

Similarly, there are now many people all over the world who, regardless of language, religion, or politics, agree on the basic rules within which the human game, in all its variety and diversity, should be played. These rules, which reflect how most of us want to be treated, have been beautifully expressed in countless essays, declarations, and laws. But in order to define a common ground on which to work together, we can distill them into just a few sentences:

Working with others, in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect, we want to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.
In pursuing this goal, we do not engage in violent or illegal action, or in any action against a person or group on the basis of race, origin, nationality, religion, language, gender, sexual orientation, or physical or mental ability.
Most social and environmental problems have many possible solutions, and what works in one place might not work in another.
Patience, empathy, and laughter often help.

There have always been people who have taken this approach to life. The difference now is that we can reach out to one another, cut across the borders that separate us, and quickly build a network of people and organizations that want to act locally, think globally, and share what they can with others.

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4. How? Like stores and libraries

Photo by KatrinskayaActing, thinking, and sharing are good words, but how can we all work together when each of us might approach things differently? How do we make the most of the skills, resources, and ideas that all of us have to offer, while accepting that we may not always agree on everything? To find this balance, and make as many connections as possible, we can borrow four principles from the worlds of stores and public libraries. These are:

A broad goal: Libraries help people read more books; stores connect us with products we need (or not).
As much choice as possible: Hundreds of novels; different kinds of products.
A few rules: You return your books so that others can read them; you pay before you leave.
Impartial service: Most librarians and shopkeepers don't force you to read the books they love or to buy the products they like, but they do support everyone's right to read and to choose

When we first built Idealist in 1995, we used these principles as follows:

A broad goal: To help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.
As much choice as possible: Tens of thousands of organizations with a wide range of approaches and points of view.
A few rules: No one can use Idealist to promote violent or illegal action, or any action against a person or group on the basis of who they are.
Impartial service: While Idealist offers a platform for people and organizations to connect with one another, it doesn't favor any issue, opinion, or organization over any other. The only exception is that we strongly support the right of people everywhere to work together, legally and nonviolently, for the improvement of their lives and their societies.

Over the last ten years, these principles have been tested widely. 65,000 organizations in 190 countries have registered on Idealist, and millions of people have connected with them. These numbers are encouraging, but they represent only a fraction of what we could achieve together. To do more, we can apply these principles to a much wider set of solutions.

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5. Some solutions

Photo by MickipediaIf we go back to the building with those two neighbors looking out their windows, how can we make it easier for them to connect, first with each other, and then with any organizations that want to work with them? One way to do this would be to have a Community Point in every neighborhood and village that wants one, where, at the very least, people can put up a note on a bulletin board and see who responds. Depending on local conditions, community points could take different forms. For example:

They could have a permanent physical location (at a local organization, school, community center, or house of worship, or in a coffee shop, store, or library), and use email and the web wherever possible as additional ways to serve their community.

Alternatively, they could exist mainly online, and use a variety of places in the neighborhood for regular face-to-face meetings.

In any case, once a community point is set up, it could remain simple—a bulletin board on the wall or online, and nothing more—or it could gradually provide all of the following services:

A meeting place, open all day or two hours a week, where you can come to exchange ideas, suggest and plan a project, give or take a class, find the resources you need to help yourself and others, or simply find someone to water your plants while you are on vacation.
A new way for organizations of every kind to reach your community and work with you according to local needs and priorities. Just as your local grocery store lets suppliers of toothpaste, milk, and coffee reach many more people than they could ever reach by themselves—while allowing you to try a variety of products without having to call or visit every supplier—so community points can make it much easier for "suppliers" of human rights, preventive health, and economic development, for example, to reach and be reached by the people who want to work with them.

Health

Human
Rights

Economic
Development

Various
Other Groups

Community
Point

The opportunity to share ideas, information, and resources with people facing similar challenges in other communities, whether in the same city or on another continent.
The intangible but crucial feeling that we are not alone—that in our neighborhood, and all over the world, there are others who understand and support what we are doing.

The details, then, will vary from place to place, but imagine if in a year or two, no matter where you are, you could visit a local community point and immediately feel at home. Regardless of language or culture, you'd find people and organizations offering their community the widest possible range of projects, services, and opportunities, while sharing ideas and resources with people all over the world.

Applying these principles more widely

At the heart of these community points is the idea that if two or more people share a common goal and have a way to meet, good things will often follow. If this is true for neighborhoods, towns, and villages, it can also apply to schools, universities, companies, and other institutions. Here are a few possibilities:

School clubs

Imagine if in any school two or more students with a similar idea for a good project could always find each other within a few days. To get to that point, we need a place and a time in every school where everyone can meet, supported, if possible, by a friendly teacher and by every organization that wants to serve the school and its students.

Campus networks

In many colleges and universities there are a variety of student groups working on a wide range of issues. What is often missing is a strong network to connect and promote all of these groups, bring more outside opportunities to the campus, and link the school in a variety of ways with the community and the world around it.

Workplace initiatives

These could include, among many other ideas, helping connect people within companies (or in any other workplace) who want to work together on any issue; using the company's web site to help employees and customers find new ways to get involved; helping companies of all sizes find a local organization to support; and connecting businesses with peers in similar industries who have found cleaner or safer ways of doing their work.

Joint promotional campaigns

Photo by RJL20Most nonprofit organizations want to reach more people, but very few have the financial means to promote their work to a wide audience. So why not do this together? Just as some countries attract more tourists by promoting their country as a whole (instead of one hotel or one resort), imagine a series of advertisements—funny, creative, not preachy—in a variety of media, promoting action and collaboration around the world, and referring people to a web site or a telephone number that can help them find a good opportunity. To get started, in the next few weeks we'll use Idealist to invite people everywhere to produce short videos with their own ideas (guidelines coming soon) and post them online for everyone to share.

Community summits

Lastly, to tie all this together, imagine convening "community summits" of local business, media, and civic leaders, where each of them would be asked to do one small thing to help people get involved in their community. (The media, for example, can donate advertising space, while the phone company promotes a local help line in its monthly bills, and an association of small businesses invites each of its members to find and support a local organization.) The challenge is to do this in one or two places, and to demonstrate that the concept can work—that if you can get many of these actors in one room, and ask each of them to do one relatively small thing as part of a bigger picture, they will tend to do it. Later this year we'll try to do this in New York and Buenos Aires (and in any other city that wants to jump in), and share what we learn as we go.

All of these ideas complement and reinforce one another, and all of them are based on the same four principles: a broad goal, some rules we can all agree on, impartial service, and as many opportunities as possible.

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6. Getting started

So how do we do all this? How do we encourage more ideas to bubble up in neighborhoods, villages, and schools, and then connect all those people who might want to implement them? How do we make sure that if a retired doctor wants to volunteer for a year wherever she is needed most, a good place can be found for her? How do we make it easier for any company, large or small, to find and support a local organization? And how do we enable any organization launching a new project—for women or children, better crops or fewer landmines—to work directly with hundreds of community points in the countries it wants to serve?

To start, imagine that you woke up one morning and every telephone and computer on earth was unplugged from the wall. To make all these machines work again, and bring the whole network back to life, three or four billion people would have to plug their phones and computers back into the wall. But before this happens, think about that moment when everyone would be holding a plug in their hand, right before connecting again. At that point there would be no network at all, no one could communicate with anyone else, and yet the whole thing would be so close to coming together.

The situation we are in right now is very similar to that moment. We have in our hands everything we need to create a global network of people who want to build a better world, but to get there, we need to reach out, connect, and plug in. More specifically, here are some of the steps we can take to make this happen:

Invite people and organizations all over the world to start building this network by signing up, reaching out to others, and shaping and following this story as it evolves.
Meet face-to-face, wherever we are, to think and talk about how we can create more connections between people, ideas, and resources in our neighborhood, village, school, or workplace. (More details about these meetings below.)
Create local outreach teams of people who want to help make these connections wherever they live, work, or study.
Go beyond the web by using different methods (flyers, posters, radio programs) to reach people who may not have access to the Internet.
Try a variety of ideas—from community points to school clubs to community summits—and learn as we go.
Do all this in as many languages as we can.

As we take these steps, more ideas will come up, and many more things will become possible. But the goal won't change: working together, we can help a build a better world—a world where more people can live free and dignified lives—by connecting people, organizations, and resources in every possible way.

Wherever you are, you can help make this happen, and together we can gradually change how all of us think about what's possible in our lives and in our communities. In a world with competing visions, finite resources, and unintended consequences, there will always be limits to what we can do about our social and environmental problems. But these limits aren't fixed. We can do more with a telephone and a computer than without them, and more in a country where people are free to speak and write, than in one where they are not. Today, with the resources and the accumulated experience at our disposal, we can push these limits farther than ever before. How far? Let's find out.

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7. What you can do right now

There are many ways you can get involved, but to start, these are the most important:

Attend or host a start-up meeting in your neighborhood, school, or workplace during the week of April 23-29, and let us know how it goes.
Post a comment by logging in below. Once you log in, you can create a personal profile on Idealist, and sign up for email alerts with new opportunities that match your interests and location, or to hear about new start-up meetings as soon as they are posted here.
Invite other people to take part in this initiative. Think of everyone you know who might be interested, email friends and colleagues, and post a message on any online forum or mailing list where this would be appropriate.
Plan to make a difference in your community. Be sure to check out our Community Action Center for resources to help bring your ideas to the world.

And most importantly, keep in touch. We are not a big organization, but we will read every email you send us, and we will be updating the Idealist homepage every few hours with news, questions, ideas, and comments. We can't predict where all this will go, but we can promise you that we will be as transparent as we can every step of the way. Thanks for reading this, and for taking this leap of faith with us. We look forward to working with you.

An American Tail - Somewhere Out There

2007-03-27T01:57:39Z

When ever I think of this song, I dream that there are people out there looking for me. I am some peoples dream friend, and they are mine.

Health & nutrition

2006-12-04T09:46:54Z

I was searching for sources of calcium and remembered this tool.
It is the ultimate in health. completely non-biased and tells you everything

NutritionData Advanced Nutrient Search:

This tool finds foods with the highest or lowest concentrations of specific nutrients. For example, you can use this tool to generate a list of low-carbohydrate foods, or to identify foods from a particular category that are high in protein and low in fat. Simply make your selections from one or more of the dropdowns below, then click the Show me! button to see the results of your query.

Affirmations update

2006-12-04T08:33:56Z

I'm trying a new blogging plug-in. Performancing.

I am adding a users ability to add their own affirmations and goals to the Affirmations Site

Technorati Tags: affirmations, self instructions, blogging, goals

frazer @ 2006-12-04T18:39:00

2006-12-04T08:09:59Z

OMG: I just spent an hour figuring out why I couldnt use ctrl+f to search pages and why my tabs in friefox were busted. It turns out it was because of the corporate snitch plug in. I've emailed them and I'll post when it is fixed, but for now I have unistalled it

frazer @ 2006-12-04T17:08:00

2006-12-04T06:38:41Z

4:03 studying spaninsh

Spanish:  Hombre, vas a salir muy bien.

English:  Young man, you will do very well.

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To hear the Word of the Day and the example phrase, visit

http://www.transparent.com/ea-cgi/dtchttp.exe?CT:C=448714&O=SEWOTD20061203.htm

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4:30 looking for better blogging software and plugins.

frazer @ 2006-12-04T14:36:00

2006-12-04T04:06:44Z

1:20 changing the style of the United Visions SelfInstructions page

I surf on a dailup connection, so I am have been looking for firefox plugins to let me selectivley load the images on a page,
ImgLikeOpera is great. You can tell any page to load images or not, and you can load individual images.

and while surfing I found thisCSNotifier - The CorporateSnitch Notifier | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation:

Would you purchase that computer manufactured by a company that has profited from the War in Iraq?

Perhaps you would think twice about spending your hard-earned cash on shampoo if you knew that the company that manufactured it tested it on animals?

Whether your answer to these questions is "yes" or "no", the CSNotifier gives you real-time information about Entities, the Products/Services they provide, and the practices they follow as you browse the Internet. Once you have installed it and your preferences have been set, you simply need to browse with Firefox as you normally would. A non-obtrusive window will appear inside your browser when you view a Web page about which CorporateSnitch has information.

see here for update on how it breaks firefox (this add-on breaks firefoxs FIND function)

Also thought I'd try out the
Extension Developer's Extension:

The Extension Developer's Extension exists to make life easier for Firefox extension developers. Testing JavaScript code, prototyping XUL layouts, and building XPI packages are all made easier by this extension. Install it and try it out!

frazer @ 2006-12-04T13:27:00

2006-12-04T02:57:37Z

2nd December
5:20 shop
5:40 make 2 salads for Project Australia

6:00 Project Australia starts,
we discussed our sense of community, health, education, media

11: Dancing to Dr Teeth at the Crown and Sceptre

1:30 Cams prophet party,
we discussed sustainability and living a life that is conducive to human flourishing

5:30 go home
6:00am breakfast
6:50am record last night
6:52 sleep

3rd December
1:30pm get up and lunch - talk with my papa

2 sleep

5:30 pm ride bike to Mike Palmers House

6: talk to Mr Palmer about solar power and water desalination

6:15 help Mike move things in to his new house, then we went and got William, the founder of Starstep Evolution. We discussed how to bring about the greatest joy and goodness to the world. Then Starstep Evolution had a jam and I sat back and soaked up the funk.

10 rode home and went and saw Dylan on the way, to get back my copy of The Secret, and we discussed the United Visions website, building enormous community houses full of fun things like mazes and studios. We also discussed critical thinking and sceintific attitudes to life and spirituality.

11pm sleep

4th December
12pm I slept for so long, but once again had some amazing dreams.

Affirmations System

2006-12-02T05:58:42Z

I've added users and the ability for each user to choose which Self Instructions they wish to use.
So if you want to create an account now and test the United Visions Affirmations System, please give it a go and share your feedback here.

at midday I took quick break to visit the neighbours, fix my bike and play chasey with the kids.
watched a few episodes of Ze Franks 'The Show'

It took all day, and I am convinced building webfeatures from scratch is very inefficient use of time. Can anyone suggest any PERL or PHP 4.0 based open source web management systems? It has to be able for me to define modules quickly.

4:15 I recieved some correspondance in my orkut page, and while looking I thought it should integrate with other Google features better, so I posted that to the site administrators, and also that the display is not very good for someone surfing without images.

4:27 I am going to ready for the Project Australia meeting.

frazer @ 2006-12-02T09:55:00

2006-12-01T23:26:07Z

9:54 the affirmations are imported, but I cant help thinking that may have been a waste of time, someone out there must have a complete system for life optimization.

frazer @ 2006-12-02T08:15:00

2006-12-01T21:45:55Z

3:30 my neighbours alarm went off so me and the other neighbour checked out the house for a while trying to see if the owner was ok, find a number to call or a way turn off the alarm.

4pm reply to Dave Sags comment in my journal
frazer: I subscribe to Carbon Planet:

did you like the carbon planet newsletter? We aim to get one out each 2 months now.

4:30 ate some beans

4:42 back to work on the affirmations page
5:16I have it online now
http://unitedvisions.org/SI/si.php
I have imported many of my affirmations, which can be viewed here
http://unitedvisions.org/SI/si.php?show=all
Features I want to add:

add multiple users
users can edit affirmation
& choose personal affirmations

5:42 I am writing an importer to get all the affirmations on my computer, prompt me for a title, then insert it in to my web database
5:55 I have decided to take all titles off of the affirmations(mental software)

6:17 nibble some lettuce

6:30 Read through all the old writings on my computer, looking for affirmations and getting ready to post many of my other older documents

8:13 go for a walk to play table tennis at Andy and Pauls
9:31 Andy and Paul weren't home, but I spoke to Mishka, another neighbour, and organised to use her bike pump tomorrow. I spoke to Nic, a fellow raw food advocate about raw food, and he bought up the question of whether god exists. Now I am back at home and will finish the affirmation importer.

10:32 I just finished finding and editing all the affirmations I ever wrote on my computer. I used to have 7000 written on cards. If you found them at Rainbow Serpent Festival in 2003, please type them up and submit them, or return them to me.
I think I will do the submit page in the morning.

10:38 Yoga while contemplating affirmations

10:47 I will fall asleep listening to meditations tonight

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7:28 I just awoke from a beautiful dream.
7:33 visualise and experience my affirmations

7:41 Yesterday I noticed how often I lost concentration.
I would be writing for a project and start dreaming of all
the great effects the project will have on poeples lives.
I would follow that line of thought, unitl dreaming about
society when we will be all united, and how beautiful and
fun it will be...
Now, goal setting is awesome - but I think I will be more
productive if I added a bit more structure to it.
If I could record all the ideas I have when my spirit
starts racing it would be much more useful.

7:50 exercise

frazer @ 2006-12-01T15:31:00

2006-12-01T05:02:01Z

I installed rootkit revealer this morning, and spent an hour trying to decipher its output.

9:48 if the whole of eternity is watching my every move, I really have to get organised. I am working on the united visions back-end: (For those who dont know much about computer programming for websites, the back end means the programs that organise and run the front end. The front end is the bit every body sees).

9:57 I am making a database of users for the system

10:30 ate some muesli covered in soy yogurt

10:50 looked at php.ini to set up mail sending

11:10 planned what to do next - I was looking at all the features I want on my website. Lots of them are to do with organisers and blogging features, so i am unsure if i should develop these myself or if other features are out there or about to be released.

11:30 One thing i can do is make an affirmations database, so i will do that now.

12:04 check email - I do this as a break from work
I also checked if google has any new projects

12:40 made affirmations database work with multiple users

1:00 lunch (home grown oregano, apricots from the tree, peanuts, then soymilk)

1:45 just received an email from Karen Hawke, the SA Coordinator of 'Rock The Vote'. Wrote back with details on Project Australia and WorldVision Youth, and discussed how we could work together.

3:00 snacked on broccolli, cabbage and carrots
3:15 finished that email

Does anyone else ever find they take ages to write emails?
I think about saying so much that I can go in circles in my thoughts while I am planning what to write.
I could say all I need to in 5 minutes or less, but then it takes me a long time to write it down.

Any hints on overcoming that?

frazer @ 2006-12-01T00:01:00

2006-11-30T13:31:54Z

learned some chinese from
http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2006/11/27/39758
http://www.wku.edu/~shizhen.gao/Chinese101/pinyin/tones.htm

I spent a few hours playing with
Visual Music
from http://www.shitalshah.com/utilities.aspx
not the best use of my time

I want to get an mp3 encoder, or some form of free music software,
for recording and editing and compression.
I've decided to go with Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows

time for bed.
I will fall asleep listening to a relaxation and contemplation exercise I recorded a long time ago,
the audio software was so i can record new stuff and put it on the web for you to enjoy

frazer @ 2006-11-30T20:44:00

2006-11-30T10:14:57Z

I subscribe to Carbon Planet and buy a couple of carbon credits each month.

I just recieved their latest newsletter and read it.

I roamed garden and ate fruits and vegetables.

Spoke to Dylan, a neuroscientist and inspirational designer about using one of his designs on united visions.

I did some pushups, situps and went for a run.
I would much prefer to know some more optimal fitness regimes.

I spent time on my firefox configuration, intalling the following plug ins:
Clipmarks 1.0.0
Colorful Tabs 1.7
Copy All Urls 0.7.1
Deepest Sender 0.7.8
del.icio.us 1.2
ErrorZilla 0.2
FireFTP 0.94.6
Flashblock 1.5.2
Google Calendar Quick Add 1.5.8
Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.1.20060807W
gTranslate 0.3.1
ListZilla 0.8
Save Image in Folder 1.1
StumbleUpon 2.89
Tab Mix Plus 0.3.5
Talkback 2.0
Web Developer 1.0.2
Yoono 3.0.6.2723
Zotero 1.0.0b2.r2

I wish to use these kinds of tools to really interact wiht the web quickly and easily. Any extension developers out there, I would like an extension that can post to many blogs simultaiously. If you know of one, or want to make one, let me know

I visited Scrybe, a seemingly awesome personal organiser that works while online and offline.
I am thinking of integrating the google calendar in to website soon,
but if anyone has any better suggestions for time management,
especially in ways that are publically accessable,
I'd love to hear your thoughts.

frazer @ 2006-11-30T16:08:00

2006-11-30T05:38:36Z

The big questions are - if I am making my whole life public,

what is most important to do
how do I best present it

So - what is the most important life we could lead?

perhaps having the biggest positive impact in as many lives as possible.

to do this I have concluded I must live a life that is as beautiful as I can dream - immerse my mind in the greatest visions the world has ever produced - and share those visions in ways that change peoples lives.

nope. what I just said doesn't cut it.

I meant to say restructure society so that every person is happy and has every opportunity to make the most of all their talents and dreams.

UnitedVisions.org represents humanity.
it will be the culmination of human culture,
every dream, every virtue, every vision,
every organisation, every community, every individual,
all united and working towards common visions.

how do we do this?

we need to make our lives and web precence as functional as possible.

Every day I want to live a truly balanced life,
doing the most effective projects,
as well as having a broad spectrum of self-developing leasure activities.

There are countless web communities and amazing projects in the world, and I want my interactions to be with as many as are relevant. This post is interactive with anyone connected to my livejournal, but I would proffer this post to be on many different journal sites, and also my own site.
Lets develop these abilities together.

I just read the biographies of all the people attending the SA meeting for Project Australia.

frazer @ 2006-11-30T14:13:00

2006-11-30T03:43:19Z

I was just on the phone to the South Australian Coordinator for Project Australia, Tori Saint.

We discussed the meeting details and how to bring the best results out of organisations, especially where organisations have functions that are overlapping.

We discussed inviting the coordinator World Vision Youth SA, and I am now writing her an email with the project details.

frazer @ 2006-11-30T13:38:00

2006-11-30T03:08:47Z

I have decided that I will now log as much of my life as I can.

I do this in the hope that as I do interesting and useful things, you will get involved.

I (and hopefull you) am on a mission to make the world as marvelous as I possibly can. If you see me doing things, and know of better ways to do things, better ways to manage projects, more helpful people to talk to or just want to give me advice on the meaning of life, please feel free.

Quotation Movies - Volume One

2006-07-17T12:34:33Z



"Quotation Movies - Volume One" on Google Video
Motivational quotations over eye-popping landscape pictures - creative visualization to promote positive thinking.

frazer @ 2006-05-25T09:26:00

2006-05-24T23:59:00Z

I feel great.

working on your passions gives such a deep joy.