Month: December 2006
Community Service Announcement – Illiteration/Alliteration
December 28, 2006
Looking at the search engine strings used to get to my site, I just wanted to point out that for some of you, the word you are looking for is ‘Alliteration’. From Wikipedia – “Alliteration is a stylistic device, or literary technique, in which successive words (more strictly, stressed syllables) begin with the same consonant […]
Thinking tools
December 27, 2006
While looking for advice on improving my critical thinking, I came across this article – http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~ctwardy/Papers/reasonpaper.pdf Interestingly, there are a bunch of tools listed here that claim to help with the technique of argument mapping. I haven’t had a chance to try any of these yet. Hopefully, encouraging others to check them out will yield […]
Small things…
December 13, 2006
I helped save a life yesterday. It was only a small one, but I felt quite warm and fuzzy anyway… Perspective is good.