How about a little illumination?

Hello out there, it's time to get illuminated! This is a new PodCast from the same friendly aussies that have brought us the Mysterious Universe PodCast. As is with the latter, the quality of the Illumination Project is impeccable. I encourage you to head over to their site or to check themout in the iTunes Store.

Be well, be cool, be pagan!

/ | \ Taran MacDuir

Hairs on end!

Ok, so it might be considered over the top to be horrified by something in the buissniss world, but hey, I care there to. The latest is this supposed Microsoft/Yahoo! buyout. Analysts seems to think it a good idea, I don't. First of all the respective company cultures are vastly different, and secondly: they will lose a lot of their appeal if they become a Microsoft subsidiary. I for one will deffinatley take my usage of Yahoo! services to a minimum if this comes through. No more Yahoo! Messenger, no more Flickr, no more anything like that. I won't give-up my e-mail, because I like it for sentimental reasons, I've had it since 1997! So ok, Microsoft do make some ok products, like Office, but I still prefere Nisus Writer Pro/Express, Apple Pages or even RedeX Mellel. Especially now SUN is in the game for a proper OpenOffice.org for Mac! And no one I know actualy likes Windows Live!, frankly most people seems to agree that it sucks. And the MSN homepage, please!

I say, hang in there Yahoo!, you can do SO much better than Microsoft if you need a partner, which I don't think you need. You need to start looking at doing crazy things! That's what Google and Apple are doing, and they are both doing great!

The path is rocky, tread with care,

/ | \ Taran MacDuir

So back again.

Hello gang, I'm back and I did survive Beltaine . I did, however have a rather big exam two daysafter, but I think it went ok. Beltaine was wonderful, if a bit quiet. It started with us going to a very special place, one I haven't visited since our handfasting. We sat in the sun, sang, and made a few offerings. It was a beautiful day under the oaktrees! Then we had a very nice BBQ with someof the folks from HokusPokus gruppen. Later we sat around the fire talking, drinking and drumming.
No big ceremonies, but still very nice!

Your path be yours, blessings onto it.

/ | \ Taran MacDuir