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Blogathon Workspace, July 26th 4:00 AM

Rebecca just gave me a Make Good Certificate. I didn’t know what Make Good was, so I did some quick reading about them on their website.

MakeGood seems like a way to promote the corporate social responsibility of the company, connecting them with charities – like a trust mark of charitable behaviour of the company. They’ve partnered with United Way as well.

Blogathon Workspace, 3:30 AM

Just another rambling.. Are the aptitude tests like GRE, GMAT and a slew of other IQ tests really relevant? Shouldn’t they be revamped to something else, to test for participants creative abilities as much as logical reasoning?

Even IQ tests for instance, measures reasoning and patterns and so on – requiring you to follow critical thinking. Which makes me wonder what a creative person’s IQ would be.

Is there way to measure the Creativity Quotient? Is creativity not part of intelligence?

Blogathon Workspace, 3:00 AM

I recently read a blog post by fellow Vancouver blogger David Morton. His blog titled the Inspiratorium has some great posts including some of his works on a novel set in a medieval period.

This blog post interested me because it was about a news article from Vancouver Sun featuring a miracle where a dying man for whom all hope was lost was miraculously cured by a priest using a relic belonging to a monk.

The debate between science and religion was interesting, and I told David that I enjoyed the article and that it would be an interesting topic to discuss. So I’ve decided to use that as the topic for this post.

While I’m not anti-religious, I’m not very religious either. However, the topic of religion and faith has always interested me. So, do I accept the miracle theory or reject it? That a dying man was cured by a cloth from a priest is in itself a miracle.

But the rationalist in me says that there has to be an explanation for everything. An explanation that, science, at the moment cannot answer. Until then, it would remain a miracle. I don’t think it is the arrogance of science though, in trying to solve the mysteries, and trying to find answers.

Sages have been trying to do the same, in trying to solve the mysteries of the universe. Who says scientists can’t believe in God or religion?

It’s just that at some point in time probably in the middle ages, science and religion parted ways, each attempting to seek the truth in their own way. Will science help find God? That would make for good science fiction!

Hope these ramblings at 3:30 AM make sense!

Blogathon Workspace, 2:30 AM

A company I was working at in the East Coast US a few years ago had a fire-drill. The fire-alarm which while piercing and loud to the normal ear, wasn’t audible to me because my digital hearing aids which were programmed to my hearing needs and to filter background noise didn’t detect the fire-alarm.

As a result, most of my colleagues had stepped out of the building while I was hunched in my cubicle typing in my computer, oblivious to what was going on! Fortunately, it was nothing more than a fire-drill.

Most fire-alarms are usually audible through the hearing aid these days. However, it doesn’t hurt to be careful and be more cognizant of the surroundings.

Blogathon Workspace, 2:00 AM

Since I hadn’t heard about Carpathia before, this Carpathia rescue story gave me an idea.

Why is that we tend to remember disasters more than heroic efforts? Villains more than heroes?

Why is it that we recognize and reward people more for solving a problem than for preventing the problem from happening in the first place?