John and I had lunch at the new place in the old Tivoli theatre, with coffee at the Perk afterwards. We parted at around 1:30pm after a wide ranging chat. John is starting to zero in on cloud based techniques having discovered that ‘security’ by itself is like ‘environmental engineering’, that is too general by itself and not an application by itself.

The processes at hand are no longer site bound and so less vulnerable to hacks and service denial.

What is happening with the ‘cloud computing’ situation is that applications formerly using onsite techniques, processes and hardware are now relocated ‘into the cloud’, which increases productivity and flexibility. The processes at hand are no longer site bound and so less vulnerable to hacks and service denial. So, in that way going to the cloud increases security at the same time.

It always makes me think of the ‘ARPA-net’ that was created by the US defense department , using multiple sites to increase security. An even earlier example is the making rocket launching site mobile, by putting the ICBMs on trains as the Soviets did at the time. Now we have satellites and on we go!

Last night I resolved to get to bed before midnight and to get up between seven and eight in the morn. This was the result of my being so late yesterday. I’d let my times of retiring at the day’s end get later and later. This happened because I have taken to sleeping much in the aft. That is for more than an hour and that routine is what I aim to change.

The afternoon snoozes as I euphemistically call them, are over two hours at times and also more than just one. Yesterday afternoon I addressed that and noticed that I feel depressed in the afternoon due to being sad. This awareness of being sad was new to me; feeling afternoon depression was not.

‘If I can hold a critical attitude‘, which I easily do and often, ‘I can just as well hold the attitude of love’, I said to myself.

So, with this realisation I reached inward for an answer. Doing so I became aware of my attitude of love, the feeling of love that is by concentration on that feeling to generate it. This feeling of love within me I experienced before, back in Holland, Zeist even in 2002. Over time I have learned to generate this feeling by thinking about it and then concentrating and holding it.

Yesterday a made myself look at my critical attitude and habits. ‘If I can hold a critical attitude‘, which I easily do and often, ‘I can just as well hold the attitude of love’, I said to myself. This worked, because that logic was and is inescapable for me, since I am so critical ‘by nature’ almost. I know very well however, that this is an adopted attitude of mine as discovered years ago when using counselling.

Here I am this morning recalling all this processing from yesterday, but also knowing that this writing here affirms that result by making it explicit. It is a learning process of things self discovered and then self taught by means of repetition. This is what religions do, because we humans drift in our values and of what we are conscious. Advertisers try to change that to get to buy us their often unneeded products.

This technique of repetition also applies to what views we hold on life, living, society and people and we have to ‘gate’ what we let in and keep out. This prevents my life from being hijacked by values that I do not value!

Another ‘pearl’ I told myself yesterday, is that "love is creative", whereas hate is destructive. Now sometimes we do need to destroy or abandon some ‘things’, values and or attitude, to make changes. So we must keep in mind what it is that we want to achieve. This in turn must also be ethically informed, as has been passed on to us in our human traditions.

Now with all my current wisdoms duly recorded it is getting time to meet up with Sarah within the hour.
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