May summary

13,000 words in 26 posts in May, linked and summarised. There's some duplication in this list because it's not easy to categorise things, and also a lot more overlap between some sections than even the duplication suggests:

Advocacy:

• Helping someone not to get angry - a practical advocacy intervention
• No advocating for avocados - seriously, ban the verb 'to advocate'
• Advocacy and therapy
• Humility is not a passive state - but it is an important part of advocacy practice
  
• Recipe for paranoia - for advocates to guard against
• Being non-judgemental - another important skill
• Being independent - how you can be, and how you can tell
  

Complaints:

• Complaints are great
  

Ethics:

• The boiling water principle - ethics is about economics too
• An apology - sorry I gave money to a multinational oppressor
• All work and no pay - partly about the problem of 'intellectual property' and some alternatives
• Being non-judgemental - this links in very closely with an ethical approach
• Ethics vs. morality - first proper description of my approach to ethics
• Theory and practice - there is only practice - throw all theory books away!

Blog organisation and methodology:

• Delivering the world from its exhausting boredom - a critical and clinical approach to the blog, and some juicy quotes
• Ethics vs. morality - ethics is one of the key principles of this blog, and here's some ideas about how that is
• Theory and practice - there is only practice - throw all theory books away!
  

State violence and discrimination:

• Rather they convict me than abase myself - the continuing story of Shaun
• The boiling water principle - we need to rethink economics if we're going to solve these problems
  
• An apology - supermarkets are violent too
• Recipe for paranoia - a problem for psychiatric units
• Bullying and harassment of doctors - it's not all one way
  

Links, discoveries and other things:

• "we all have an obligation to intervene" - from an interview with a Portuguese novelist
  
• Welcome to the Mental Health Hotline - humour from the Mental Nurse
• Bullying and harassment of doctors - from the 'work related blogs' blog
• intueri: to contemplate - another medical blog, but very thoughtful and quite ethical
  

Creativity and literature:

• A practical novel - Face by Benjamin Zephaniah
  

Spirituality and healing:

• Happy Beltane - keeping in touch with the seasons and ourselves
  

Computers and IT:

• Google good...? - some of the background to an increasingly powerful force in computing
• Best viewed in Firefox - if your not using it, get this browser
• Linux for human beings - this blog is written in the spirit of Ubuntu
  

Humour:

• An apology
  
• Welcome to the Mental Health Hotline - humour from the Mental Nurse
• No advocating for avocados - seriously, ban the verb 'to advocate'

Others:

• Cantonese/Mandarin reading matter sought
• Cats have voices too