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Got this video just in time for LeWeb3.0 in Paris.
Hope you'll enjoy it as much as I have :-)




Thanks Shai !

Out of the mouth of babes

A few days ago we got home a bit late in the evening. My daughter (Shani, 2 years and ten month old), with the regular energy levels she has (which I am not sure who she got them from), was off to her regular "I think I can find a better place for my toys rather than in the toy chest" game. A better place being the living room floor.
Suddenly I heard her call out "I am throwing away the doll".
Well, obviously, the first question that came to mind was "which doll?", I dashed off to see which doll it was all the while thinking I was hoping it wasn't the one that my husband and I both like because she could stop any kind of tantrum....
I found her back at her messing up game, not giving the doll another thought, so I hurried to the bin to see what we were talking about and didn't see anything. I called her and she came over and showed me she threw away a Barbie doll that had a broken leg and which we had been unsuccessful at mending repeatedly. So she gave up on her and decided it was time to throw her away (she did throw her in the wrong bin mind you, maybe it wasn't really goodbye time).
Well, I picked up the doll and told my daughter that if she wanted to throw her out that was OK but she first had to tell her thank you for being her friend and that she enjoyed her very much and now it was time to part. So she did it (just to please me I think) and went back to her game (the living room was still way to ordered for her to give it up).
And then I started thinking. Was I wrong in what I had done? maybe the fact that she so easily left the past behind and so happily de-cluttered was a good one? maybe I had asked her to say goodbye because years of socializing with man kind had taught me to hold on to the past? to cherish old belongings? to 'humanize' them thus not being able to part with them?
Why teach her to hold on to old, broken material things rather than hold on to precious memories instead?
Well, I guess I over thought it but it probably comes from the fact I dislike my inability to part with old stuff. And maybe I should be taking lessons from her instead of giving her bad ones?
Out of the moth of babes people.
Out of the mouth of babes.

Going Green

Sometime this weekend I was overhearing the news from another room. They were talking about 350M year old fossils found somewhere. Three Hundread and Fifty MILLION. Wow. That's a huge number. That got the old nuts and bolts turning and I had to write myself a little note on my soul saying: "You've got to remember to share this piece of info with others come Sunday, at work". What was it I was thinking?

How come this world and all of its living creatures have been here for THAT LONG and it took us a mere one hundred years of technology to destroy it?

So I checked out just how long "THAT LONG" was...

"It is generally assumed that planets are formed by the accretion of gas and dust in a cosmic cloud, but there is no way of estimating the length of this process. Our Earth acquired its present size, more or less, between 4 billion and 5 billion years ago. Life on Earth originated about 2 billion years ago, but there are no good fossil remains from periods earlier than the Cambrian, which began about 490 million years ago"
(Check out http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001822.html for more).

To me it seems like a real achievement. Being able to erase 4-5 billion years, or even "only" 490 million years, of ongoing change and growth and improvement in what is a blink of an eye. As 100 years are nothing more than that compared to such a glorious time line.
Though I am a big fan of technology, and can appreciate the good things it brought into our lives I do believe that we should have taken the time to think of how those perks are affecting our environment, and, mind you, our health.

So is there anything we can do?
I used to think that "going green" was a nice slogan and though I could understand the importance of it, and agreed with every word, it did not really cause me to "grow" a compost heap behind my house. I must say that this weekend the chip finally hit the bottom of the barrel. There are things that each of us can do to try and help and it's about time we start. There's a new bin downstairs for paper only. I will start using it. Why not have one at home? I will make room for one. My husband has access to a batteries disposal bin at work. We'll start using that too. How about the plastic recycling bin? I will start using that one too. It's about five minutes away from my home but what's that compared to a million years?
That all sounds obvious doesn't it? well, that's what it takes to make a change. Too bad it took more than ten years for these ideas to become obvious to most people.
My workplace is also going green. If it hadn't, wouldn't it have been a good place to try and influence?
I think "influence" is the key word, and this should become contagious (like the "flue" in influence. Ever notice that?) . What I mean is we need to talk about this. To raise this issue with friends and families who will raise this with friends and families and soon enough everybody will have that blue paper bin downstairs and will have a hybrid car and take this to the whole wide world. Then, in no time, we'll all be infected with the "Going green" bug. It will be bigger than SARS...
Hopefully, thanks to the green bug, we will have descendants in 1 million years who will be able to discuss that glitch in time when human kind almost destroyed the earth in the blink of an eye.....

Hi,
Well, this is my very first blog.
Having been introduced to blogs about 5 month ago, I believe it's about time I get my self one of those.
I guess I'll try to keep it interesting and up to date with current events. Ones in my life that is.
Hope it will be fun to read, promise to try and make it such.