Free Mood Boards: Colourful Bird Theme

For this edition we have a feathery friends theme of 3 free Mood Boards for your Desktop or Smartphone! For a more in-depth look at mood boards, please see Free Mood Board: Dahlia Pink & Yellow Graphic Design Resources. Other Free Mood Boards include: Cacti Spirals, Mandala Dragonfly, Sunset Dreamcatcher, Flower Data Art, Horses, Duotone […]

Developer’s Dilemma: Build Me the Eiffel Tower – Rant

When you are expected to be everything to everyone. When an individual is expected to be a diverse team of senior developers i.e., 6 – 8 people with 5-10 years of experience, preferably 100 years altogether! Including, but not limited to, each of the following: a Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Architect, Software […]

Free Mood Board, Quote & Wallpaper: Sunset Theme

For this edition we have a dusk theme of 3 free Graphic Design Resources: a Mood Board, a Quote, and a Wallpaper for your Desktop or Smartphone! For a more in-depth look at mood boards, please see Free Mood Board: Dahlia Pink & Yellow Graphic Design Resources. Other Free Mood Boards include: Cacti Spirals, Mandala […]

Notable Quotable: Lessons from History & Literature

Notable Quotable Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party […]

Flying Stalker – Short Poem

You know of the fiend I am taking of here? The one who is impossible to unhear, And opens a flood of swear! Drabble: 25 words © Dr Tanzelle Oberholster

Curious Snippets 2.0: English is a crazy language!

This is a follow-up to Curious Snippets: English I Fancy… While cleaning out old keepsakes a found a few paper snippets describing the wonderfully colourful language that is English. Again, I cannot find the original Author and there are several version of this on the internet (some with up to 21 points)… Enjoy! Why English […]

Curious Snippets: English I Fancy

While cleaning out old keepsakes a found a few paper snippets describing the wonderfully colourful language that is English. Unfortunately, after trying to find the original Author of today’s snippet I ran into several other versions of this poem (mainly with the title “Why English is so Hard to Learn”) contributed to unknown writers from […]

PoI: Persons of Inspiration – Drabble

Sometimes in life, especially during dark times someone, be it through a spiritual guide or divine intervention, sends you a person of inspiration. Their timely arrival may seem serendipitous, a strange working of synchronicity. They meet you during a chance encounter at the mall or you happen upon their post in the ‘recommended’ section of […]

Dear Narcissist: I’ll take My Happiness and Go – Short Poem

In a world of black and white, where anything anyone does is wrong and only you are right. From your subjective deluded perspective you have but one objective. Spite, vengeance and scorn swirl within your heart’s storm. Always having the last word and endlessly casting blame. All an attempt to gain your rightful empty fame. […]

Writing Journal of a Scientist: Run The Ink Dry – Drabble

No piece of writing is worthy of destruction – yes, it may be cringe worthy, but half-formed ideas hide between the bad grammar and spelling mistakes. These precious little insights will be nourished when the water of the muses flow. Crumbs of inspiration quickly transform into beautifully composed pieces. Never throw away any article of […]