Bitterjug’s blog

Today I am celebrating. This was my first day of paid work* that was not something to do with Information Technology. I went to Bedford today and delivered a one-day seminar on Emotional Intelligence, NLP and NVC. Nic and I prepared it together and she helped me deliver today, and to facilitate breakout sessions. The […]

“I’m just a guy who lends tiny little money to poor women”
With these words, Muhammad Yunus responded to his introduction and started his lecture today. Looking for this quote in my notebook I notice I have taken ten pages of notes. The lecture started humbly but ended with the words “this is what we […]

Just received this certificate in the post:
CERTIFIED PRACTITIONER
In the art of Neurolinguistic Programming
Once a programmer always a programmer, heh?

I just opened the CD that I got from Schumacher College — they give a CD instead of lots of paper notes — and there are audio recordings of all our lectures. The files are .dss files that my linux box doesn’t know what to do with. DSS = Digital Speech Standard:
a proprietary compressed digital […]

I cooked Ugali yesterday. Solidarity with my Kenyan friends. Mr Kioko has had some property destroyed but, to the best of my knowledge, most of my friends are safe. Let it stay that way.
Ugali is a staple foodstuff in the part of Kenya I was in, it is made of maize-meal and water. […]

I’m trying to remember how it all started now. I think it was Sociocybernetics… No! It was something from one of Alan’s comments here! Alan uses Sara’s blog as his URL when leaving comments, but I know he has another web site without much on it as yet. And when I visited that site last […]

It was snowy this morning and the ground and grass was crunchy underfoot while I was working in the garden with my team; we were sawing firewood.
And now it’s almost time to leave. I’m steeling a moment to write this before we have a kind of last minute final session: some of the group have […]