VICTUS IN AMBITUS has run from 1 January 2008 to 30 May 2008, exactly five months.
I have published three times a week, and the total content exceeds 50,000 words, in some 75 Posts. The core content will be available in an easy-to-read PDF and book format shortly. In the meantime, the raw text can be […]

Women are like Elephants in that they never forget. OK, I know that that’s a generalisation. As a guy, I like and appreciate women in lots of different ways, but there’s something abou tthe fairer sex gender that drives me nuts. Why on earth do they have to live in the past so much. Just […]

There’s more to business than money and there’s more to life than work. I’m a sucker for work though, bordering on being classified a work-a-holic by those who like to label others.
It’s not because I have an addiction to work, it’s because I love what I do. My work is creative, challenging, interesting and it […]

When cooking something up - maybe a story, a business deal, a winter soup or whatever, most of the time it’s got to be 100% good or the whole thing breaks down and evil results. A teenager who was arguing along the lines that “just a little bit” of naughty stuff would be OK, was […]

The Greeks used to leave one particular stone out of every building that they built, just so that they didn’t insult the “gods” by building something perfect themselves. From memory it was located at the base and behind the pediment (That’s the triangular roof façade at the front of their buildings) and was therefore not […]

It’s a trap, this ANTI thing. Anti-whaling, Anti-abortion, Anti-gays, Anti-homophobes, and the list goes on an on. Competing political parties can score political points and label you without policy of your own, if you are just “anti” too often.
The trouble with being anti something is two-fold. First you become less able to BE something […]

Fear and Pain can be like two pillars that hold up a plethora of negative behaviour. All destructive behaviour such as addictions, anger, anti-social behaviour and more can always be traced back to one or both of these two causes.
Remove or minimise the fear, or pain, and the house of cards will come tumbling down […]

I’ve observed that all negative behaviour, such as habits and addictions; all things unhealthy, hurtful or damaging to self; anti-social and destructive activities are always grounded in one or both of two nasty little beasts, FEAR and PAIN.
These two little “puppies” really are like pillars in a Roman Temple - they hold the whole thing […]

It always hurts when someone criticises you. I don’t believe that anyone is immune to hurt from criticism. The little ditty “Sticks and stones will hurt my bones, but names will never harm me!” is a lie. Unkind or harsh words can kill the spirit, stunt our growth and trigger all kinds of ugly stuff, […]

A few hundred years ago an English religious dude by the name of Charles Colton penned the words “Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.” Sometimes yes, but jealousy can also show its ugly face too once you’ve been around a while.
Being an entrepreneur is sometimes pretty lonely, as you have to lead from the front, […]

The discipline of Usability, particularly in website development, puts massive efforts into research to develop user-friendly websites - websites that work well.
The essence of Good Design is that one design can achieve a given purpose better than another “Lesser “Design. It is assumed of course that there is a designer.

In the last decade or two, the Intelligent Design (ID) movement has really made great strides in developing the idea that there really has to be a Designer behind what we see in nature. A leader in this area has been Michael Behe, particularly with his arguments around what he calls “irreducible complexity”.
This is the […]

Except for straightforward phone calling, you would be hard done by to find a dumber piece of design than a cell phone. For a guy who’s into efficiency, trying to TXT is more than a painful process - it’s a dead cert frustration creator. Predictive texting doesn’t work for me because it doesn’t have half […]

Sometimes anger really gets you going. I don’t mean to bashing someone with a hammer, I mean the deep determination to wrestle with an issue or a problem until we can get to the bottom of it.
A key thought in this angry state is often to ask questions. Why is this happening to me? Why […]