So David Cameron has outlined his plans today to create a “Happiness Index” to measure how happy people in the UK are. The government (through the Office of National Statistics) will spend £2m compiling the index which will first appear in publication in 2012. Best that the ONS takes some advice to improve the results: [...]
Categories: The Odd Spot,Viewpoint
Tagged: Happiness, Happiness index, ONS, politics
Forget "God" and the like, I believe in both Murphy’s Law and the Law of Averages. For the uninitiated, Murphy’s Law basically states that where something can go wrong, it will go wrong. The law of averages basically states that the probability of the occurence of something will tend towards the average. For me, combining [...]
Tagged: averages, glass half full, Law of Averages, Murphy's Law, optimism, probability, religion
Apple yesterday launched its new laptop, the MacBook Air. The thinnest, lightest laptop they say. And isn’t it beautiful? Graced in brushed aluminium, it certainly deserves the ultra-portable tag. Personally, I’ve not touched one yet, but I did read the coverage of the laptop on various sites over the past day. Are Apple afficionados gushing? [...]
Tagged: Apple, MacBook Air, Porsche
I guess it’s unavoidable that as one gets older, one’s perspective in life changes. Those of us old enough will know that once we were naive teenagers, thinking we knew everything about the world. Then we went to university and left as naive graduates, thinking we knew nearly everything about the world, except for the [...]
Categories: Life,Movie Reviews,Viewpoint
Tagged: Leon Lai, Life, Maggie Cheung, Movie Reviews, Sausalito, Viewpoint
Just over two weeks ago, my paternal grandfather died. He was in his late 70s, and had been suffering from ill health for a while. His funeral was on Tuesday. A first for me. Not only was it the first funeral of a loved one I’ve attended, but it’s also my first Buddhist funeral. It [...]