A Very British Witchcraft - Gerald Gardner & Wicca

I'd heard of Wicca through a few friends but didn't really understand what it was all about. This documentary is quite good fun. Gerald Gardener was packed off to the Middle East as a young boy to keep his asthma at bay and came back to the UK a fully fledged weirdo in the best-of-British sense of the word. 

I quite like Wiccans now. 

I'm always up for nature worship and the divine feminine even if it it comes bundled with a 20th century pagan witchcraft religion.

Oliver Cromwell vs Charles I feat. John Thurloe

I was reading that bullshit interview with head of MI6 Sir John Sawyers in the FT the other day. It's the one where he admits to dissembling but not lying (WTF), but where I claim he's lying through his teeth about MI6, CIA and Mossad involvement with ISIS/ISIL. 

The FT removed my comment, not for saying what I wrote, as you can read all that in the NYT but presumably for pointing out that MI6 are shit scared of Mossad and are basically their rent boys.

Anyway, even The Telegraph admits Qatar is funding the terrorists so what really caught my eye in the FT article was the nod towards Cromwell's spymaster John Thurloe. That got me thinking about the speculation that Cromwell was funded by the same bankers who got the world wars going. 

Either way both King Charles I and Oliver Cromwell come across as completely bonkers. At least King Charles has the excuse he was raised to be a self centred plonker. Cromwell seems to outdo him by toppling the King only to become even more king-like than Charles. 

All of this is accompanied by the usual bloodshed between the tribalists who you can see today cheering on the left/right god/no god paradigm, like teamsters-for-life flag wavers united.

I thought the second documentary posted above was superior to the first which has that pompous pseudo intellectual voice that documentaries use when they tell you nothing and spend ages describing violence, as if we're all three year olds who only understand sword play.

Update: The original videos were censored. I also suspect that Cromwell was sponsored by Dutch Jews, to overurn the monarchy.

McClaren & SAP

I'm working closely with SAP specialists (and also my villa rental mates plus a few others) these days, so you can imagine there's a lot to keep up with and I'm a very busy boy.

I'm focusing on the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) side of SAP so there's a huge amount of subcategories to drill down into from HR to CRM, Business Intelligence and so forth. On the surface it's quite a boring subject unless you're into big live data but the more we examine how big business works the more clear it is that software and cloud solution data add a foundation of stability to global businesses and their short, medium and long term aims.

Now don't misunderstand me. 

I'd prefer to be a hunter gatherer growing my own food and so forth but group stability is a huge factor in figuring out where the human race wants to collectively go. I would go back to a smaller populated planet, that's more in tune with a nature style of living, but 99.999% of the planet don't see what I see as a vision of potential. This doesn't mean I reject the use of antibiotics for those binary heads who can only process two polarized ideologies at a time.

I'm an evangelist for the power of socialised media and communication agility. The only thing that has begun to sort out the planetary mess we're in (from my perspective) is the internet and its ability to work, play, interact and shape the future from a desk, tablet or coming soon wearable technology.

In any case this video of McLaren Group's partnership with SAP is a taster of how racing drivers are tapping into the supply chain management (SCM) expertise of (for example) hospitals, through enterprise resource planning suites. Real time analysis of a Formula One business while it's racing on the track isn't so boring when there is instant feedback into their business intelligence repercussions and implementation of both instantaneous and future decision making.

It's about time the human race had a plan. We've been scared of the future for too long.