Another year Another Blog with God under review

Yes, I finally got away from the toil - oh since my last post, I changed jobs, leaving my position as program manager in Microsoft's Games Studios in Dublin and coming home to work as programme manager for a cross border cluster development initiative - centered on Creative Digital Media - you know the stuff, digital film production, graphics, animation, games development, digital audio and music production etc. while I actually made some (3 maybe?) real friends in MS in the nearly 4 years I worked there and had fairly large worldly responsibilities - I didn't believe deep down that I was really going to change the world or many peoples lives working on Xbox and PC titles for EMEA or some of the other research /techy stuff I got involved with. Anyway that's just part of my past now, I do keep in touch with those who consider me a friend. when I began by saying 'got away from the toil- ha ha I actually meant stopped working for the evening - the whole cluster thing is really satisfying and full of (north) eastern promise, and it's work, lots of it, lots and lots of it, - with 30+ very strong, talented and creative people which in itself is actually a huge reward. Real people with real lives that, If I can, I will make a positive impact on their lives in some small way.



I was personally saddened by the Asian Disaster, affected to some degree and pretty sickened by the responses of some of the UK & Irish media and column inch whores who jumped on it. What were they writing about during the genocides in Africa between hutu and tootsie, during the famines and the continuing Aids crisis, the squalor of Romanian orphanages and the other injustices and human disasters that are on-going but ignored - a sort of conscious for a day affair really - and those 'where was God then Articles' that have started to appear - boy are they some shit stirring know nothings - loaded questioned, fecked if you answer - fecked if you don't. Who knows - maybe it's about time the general concept of God went under review - I'm not getting religious - I might try spiritual - but certainly not religious though - When forced to explain to others what I mean when I say I'm spiritual - in rebuttal to: So you’re religious then ?, I generally explain that what I am doing - whether I want to actively participate or not - is creating a painting of sorts - one that somehow reflects my inner light/dark and interacts with objects, people, nature - other things, elements, ingredients inner & outer that when sloshed together seem to form some kinda canvas - some kinda of sentient snapshot - when you get involved in any way with religions - you basically visit a gallery - that simple. Each to his own really is what I say - let them bake cake (-: