life

It is always tempting when buying or designing things to plan for the future; to add features that make your design or purchase "future proof".

A PhD student has created a way to capture conversations with hospice patients that their relatives can play back and listen to at any time later.

Another podcast ... I was listening to Guy Raz interview General David Petraeus on the "Wisdom from the top" podcast. Towards the end he made the observation that luck is where preparation meets opportunity. This implies the more prepared you are then the more "lucky" you will be when opportunities arise.

This is quite an amazing article about how someone ended up installing an actual old style payphone in their house.

We had a guest speaker at church on Sunday, the son-in-law of our pastors. He spoke on the subject of "Last House Standing" - based on Matthew 7:24-27, the wise and foolish builders.