Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the monthly archives:
I’ve just spent a good portion of the day upgrading the Apple OS on my MacBook Pro to OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard). The upgrade took time because I was ultra careful with ensuring that I had an up-to-date bootable backup, that I had cleaned out caches and ensured my back up was as free [...]
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One of the things I do in life is to advise the Attorney General.
I could try to persuade you that I’m not saying this as a boast – but I know you wouldn’t believe me. So just accept this as a name-drop. And, more importantly, as an illustration of how the UK government [...]
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I have to draw your attention to the new LittleGuru site. Well, truth be told, I don’t have to, but I want to.
LittleGuru is actually my daughter-in-law, Vicky, who is an enterprising and lovely person. If you go and have a look you will see the wide range of writing, artistic, health and spiritual [...]
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Lord Avebury (right) with Bemma Donkoh, representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Lord Avebury has posted his speech at the Blomfield Award reception on 17 October on his blog.
Let me say without qualification that there’s no honour I would sooner have received that the Blomfield award, established in memory of Sara Louisa Ryan, Lady [...]
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Does it matter whether we agree that global climate change is happening or not? Does it matter whether or not we take action to ameliorate the effects of global climate change, even if it isn’t happening? These are the questions that this video sets out to answer.
It seems to me to make a compelling case [...]
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One of my heroes is a quiet man, generally unnoticed by the media, unsung, not the recipient of glittering awards. He is a veteran British parliamentarian and advocate and defender of human rights of the oppressed in many parts of the world. He is Lord Avebury.
Yesterday afternoon the UK Baha’i community honoured Lord Avebury [...]
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Something like 20,000 blogs contributed to Blog Action Day 2007.
You can read the wrap here.
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We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the [...]
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There is nothing sweeter in the world of existence than prayer. [From the writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá]
Erica and I are co-tutoring a group who are studying Book 1 (Reflections on the Life of the Spirit) of the courses of the Ruhi Institute in our home on Wednesday nights. There are seven of us. Four are not [...]
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I have just been amazed and cheered by this video. Dr Randy Pausch of Carnegie Mellon University, who is facing death within a few months from pancreatic cancer, reflects in the university’s “Last Lecture” series on his life, on achieving his childhood dreams, and about what he’s learned from life. He’s funny, he’s positive and [...]
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