This is potentially good news:
A new discovery from a chemist at the University of Texas at Austin may allow photovoltaic solar cells to double their efficiency, thus providing loads more electrical power from regular sunlight.
Not only that, but it’s way cheap. Chemistry professor Xiaoyang Zhu and his team discovered that an organic plastic semiconductor could double the number of electrons harvested out of one photon of sunlight. Yep, plastic.
Source: stylelist.com via Adam on Pinterest
I once, a very long time ago, mentioned that I was actually quite interested in women’s fashion. It intrigues me, the way small changes can transform an outfit completely. It almost feels like a language that I don’t quite speak.
I can tell that the tassels on this dress make it fun. That’s simple. But how it’s done without making it look ridiculous is just opaque to me.
A difficult moment at an airport
OK, getting somewhere now. Need to do a bit of DNS jiggery-pokery, and figure out how to get authorship mark-up sorted. Otherwise, all good…
I find setting up and using WordPress plugins surprisingly annoying.
So, a new blog. Or, at least, the relaunch of an old blog. I’ve had a mind to do something with the moribund Coffee & Complexity for a long time, but now’s the time to get going on it again. I’ve got a focus and a purpose in mind for it, and I hope to use it as a positive spur in my life. Let me rewind a bit, and look at the experiences that are at the core of this.
In the last decade, I’ve watched both my parents die. We’ve lost grandparents and other relatives. Too much of the noughties was defined by illness and death. My family has shrunk, and grown. And my own life has often been put on hold to devote my energies into caring for those whose time with me is limited. But that’s done now, at least for now.
And there’s a realisation inherent in that – illness and death awaits us all. Our time on this planet is limited, and we should make the most of it. And I want to push myself to play as hard as I work. I’m really not playing hard enough right now.
When One Man & His Blog was in its infancy, it often was a spur for me to go to events, or come up with photographic projects, just to give me something to blog about. As it’s become more of a reflection of my professional life, examining and exploring the intersection of social media and blogging, it’s ceased to be that. And I miss that. I miss the urge to publish being a motivating factor in making me do more interesting things with my time.
So, here’s the plan. I’m going to use blogging to motivate me to make more of the time I have on this earth. I’m going to be running a group of blogs around subjects and things that matter to me. But this site will be the hub of that activity, as I try to figure out exactly what it is I want, and need, out of my life.
The complexity of life, written up over a coffee.
It’s a plan.