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Friday, April 23, 2010

Sunday, March 7, 2010

The Island - proving most popular download!

It's great to see a more obscure and difficult work like 'The Island' being the most popular download for 'Read an eBook Week'.

I hope those who can struggle through its depths will be amply rewarded.

There is so much out there for us all...

Friday, March 5, 2010

Read an eBook week

From March 7th to 13th it is 'Read an eBook Week'

My ebooks on www.smashwords.com/profile/view/desgreene will be free!!!! for the week.

Enjoy!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

New Philosophical Novel



"The Island" is my latest novel dealing with my interest in the linkage of philosophy and modern science - mainly quantum theory.

It is available on www.amazon.com and I'd welcome any reviews or comments whatever!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Cogito, ergo sum!

The modern equivalent might be "I blog, therefore I am virtual." Virtual reality has displaced objective reality for millions of lonely souls (souls in the greater non-religious sense).
The virtual presence will long outlive the physical objective presence. There is no virtual death - just a long stasis of presence that is unchanging but still there to those who happen upon it.
Perhaps we need a type of virtual death (or for those who want to ape reality even more closely, virtual suicide or even virtual murder).
The virtual world is still in its infancy and the thought of death seems so far off.

Friday, January 1, 2010

UFO

2 am left the Bulman bar and walked up the road from Summercove to Kinsale. It was a clear moonlit night and the air temperature was below zero but the air was completely still on this the first few hours of 2010.
After walking for some minutes I noticed something in the sky and looked up. What I saw was beyond belief. A bright orange globule shape was moving at a fast constant velocity across the sky. It was oval in shape and was about a third of the size of the moon. It made no noise but moved across the sky at a constant height and as it passed away in the distance after maybe three or four seconds it became a small star like white speck and then disappeared.
My wife who was with me saw it all too. As it almost disappeared I gestured to a passing couple to look and they too saw the speck.
I spent some time today checking the internet to see if there were any other reports of strange sightings but there were none.
I am one of the most skeptical of people and am not one to embrace the non-normal but this was weird in the extreme.
The UFO sites on the internet are mainly of dubious quality or just plain loony and not for a moment would I want to be associated with such stuff. Yet the experience forces me to report same in some form and to try and understand the source or origin of the object.
A possible explanation could be a meteorite entering the atmosphere at a very low angle of approach causing it to heat up and glow. The fact that it didn't descend to the horizon and turned white as it got smaller may mean that it passed through our atmosphere and escaped again to space - a near miss event??
I am still trying to seek explanations.