What I Learnt Today

The Nintendo 3DS was released this week.

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 Awesome Thing #282 of 1000awesomethings was ‘Sending yourself emails to do stuff in the future‘.

As someone who may have forgotten an important date two years in a row, sending an email to a future me seems like a good plan.

MsgMe.at is a web service that allows you to do just that in the most simple way possible.

Once logged in, write a message to yourself, and tell msgme.at when you want to receive it.

• April 6th – Buy flowers
• April 7th – Don’t forget this time, dumb dumb.

What I Learnt On 2nd April in other years

2nd April 2012 Six Powerful Web Tools For Getting Unusual Things Done

You can rely on my cousin Sven to keep us up to date with all the news from Stockholm.

He writes “I am thinking that Murray and Lola will be interested in this new product from Ikea”

Indeed they are.

This video shows some customers testing the product.

While we are on the subject of Ikea-

Talkshow host Conan O”Brien decided last month to give a special thrill to his viewers from FInland by playing a real giant version of the Finnish national game (Angry Birds). To make it even more interesting, the pigs were protected by furniture from Finland’s great rival, Sweden.

You can check it out here – 

http://video.teamcoco.com/video/conan.jsp?oid=245479

What I Learnt On 1st April in other years

1st April 2012 For the Geek who has Everything

It would appear that yes, he does.

What I Learnt On 31st March in other years

31st March 2016 So it’s “Goodnight” from me – Swedish Made Simple

31st March 2012 Beware – April Fool

Garr Reynolds has lived and taught in Japan for many years.

He writes:

Japanese culture and ways of thinking can not be adequately addressed in a short space, but this Japanese proverb “Nana korobi ya oki” (literally: seven falls, eight getting up) reflects an important and shared ideal. This speaks to the Japanese concept of resilience. No matter how many times you get knocked down, you get up again….

The concept of gambaru is also deeply rooted in the Japanese culture and approach to life. The literal meaning of gambaru expresses the idea of sticking with a task with tenacity until it is completed—of making a persistent effort until success is achieved.

This week at Presentation Zen he write about the Japanese resilience in response to the earthquake.

On the same subject, Andrew Knight points us towards the British Medical Journal blog of Ryuki Kassai, Professor of Family Medicine at Fukushima.  Andrew writes that the Prof “came with some of his registrars to visit our practice in 2009.  I have visited him and his registrars in Fukushima.  He gives a fascinating and moving insight into living through such events”

Sometimes it became difficult to keep our strong Fukushima tradition of endurance (gaman) and non blaming culture. The mental well being of the caregivers who were under constant demanding pressure is an ongoing issue. A video clip on YouTube entitled Pray for Japan: be strong deeply moved us into tears. That was a good example how music and narrative can heal us

Read the Profossor’s blog in the BMJ.

He has also posted an update for the second week.

What I Learnt On 30th March in other years

30th March 2014 Handling Errors : And here’s me thinking that they dropped the ball by accident