Although I lived through the Thatcher years, I didn’t ‘live’ through the Thatcher years, I was too young to understand or remember all the things she did while in power. So my respect for her is based on what I learned about her from books, magazines and documentaries I saw when I was older. I’ll…
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Today I found out about a very interesting competition on YouTube, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Tan Dun, the Chinese composer who wrote the soundtrack for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, has composed a piece which you can download as PDF sheet music for each instrument and then follow him online while he conducts you in a…
When I was a kid, I remember watching the Olympics on TV and thinking it was pretty boring. Then in 2004, I went to the Athens Olympics to visit all my friends. I think that’s when I finally got what the Olympics was all about! It was amazing! The atmosphere, the parties, produced by all…
As I mentioned in a previous blog, I’ve been getting caught up in US politics the last couple of months as the primaries go on around me. Yesterday I actually had a chance to see Obama speak live in front of 17,000 people at the Baltimore Arena, 2 blocks away from where I work. The…
Sad news today, as the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, died today from a cardiac arrest. To say MJ had an impact on my life is an understatement. When I was a kid, my next door neighbour, Ann, introduced us to Michael Jackson after we saw Moonwalker in the cinema and were amazed! (In fact…
The last couple of days I’ve been at Olympia in London for the Business Start-up event 2008. Every year thousands of people interested in or presently running a business descend on the event to see 100’s of exhibitors offering services and seminars with some well known UK entrepreneurs. I managed to pop in to see…
Today, one of my favorite authors, Arthur C. Clarke, passed away. The guy was a creative genius and inspired me to take an interest in space technology and the space industry. Famed for his book (later turned into a film) 2001, he wrote numerous books which I still keep on my bookshelf today. May he…
I’m here on my third day in Seattle, in the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. This place is fantastic, and yesterday I swear I saw Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft) walking down the corridor! We also did a tour of Microsoft’s vision for how we will work in the next 3-7 years, round table video…