Baby steps
May 9 - 15, 2012
‘WOULD I were in an alehouse in London. I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.' – William Shakespeare, Henry V.
Skills and thrills
May 2 - 8, 2012
APRIL 30 - “PEOPLE love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.” - Albert Einstein
We need to talk about Bob
April 25 - May 1, 2012
APRIL 23: “HE’S not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy.” – Monty Python.
Private lives
April 18 - 24, 2012
“THERE’S no such thing as bad publicity, except your own obituary.” Brendan Behan (1923-1964).
Technically speaking
April 11 - 17, 2012
APRIL 10 – “If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, ‘well, this isn’t too bad, I don’t have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left handed’. But most of us would say something more along the lines of, ‘Aaaah! My arm! My arm!’” – Lemony Snicket
Yeah but no but …
April 4 - 10, 2012
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde.
There is no such thing as a free lunch, and God knows I’ve tried.
Oh Captain my Captain
March 28 - April 3, 2012
“O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won”. Walt Whitman
The ratings game
March 21 - 27, 2012
“BLESSED are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.” – Herbert Hoover.
Try sometimes
March 14 - 20, 2012
“YOU can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need.” The Rolling Stones
Value is a four-letter word
March 7 - 13, 2012
“PRICE is what you pay, value is what you get” – Warren Buffett.
Malthus’ revenge
February 29 - March 6, 2012
“… the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next 100 years.” – The Club of Rome, 1972.
“The stone age didn’t end because we ran out of stones” – Sheikh Yamani, former OPEC oil minister.
Oops
February 22 - 28, 2012
“IF YOU don’t make mistakes you’re not working on hard enough problems,” said Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate for physics 2004.
Just chatting
February 15 - 21, 2012
XCORE – I do like that name, sounds like a drill bit or a B-grade porno – very appropriate name for a mining company I think.
Rumble in the jungle
February 8 - 14, 2012
FEBRUARY 7 - “THE journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one’s feet.” Lao Tzu, 6th century BC.
Mixed signals
January 25 - 31, 2012
“IT IS not our abilities that make us what we are, it is our choices.” – Albus Dumbledore.
Bitten on the bum by a Black Swan
December 15 - 21, 2011
I DON’T have a creative bone in my body. I did once try to paint, but that was really just an excuse to perve and I can’t play anything more musical than a radio. Yes I do write a bit but I can’t imagine that even my most ardent fans would for one second mistake any of it for literature. I still cling vainly to the dream that I have a book in me somewhere, but as the years roll on I fear I am coming to the realisation that it will have to be surgically removed if it is to ever see the light of day.
Brave new world
November 24 - 30, 2011
‘ALL great financial crises begin with the belief that the world has changed forever. They all end with the realisation that change was not what it seemed’. Anatole Kaletsky.
Law of unintended consequences
November 17 - 23, 2011
LIFE is full of little milestones. We are born, we get taken home and we poo everywhere.
Revenge of the Luddites
November 10 - 16, 2011
THE English language is a bugger of a thing. Huge, complex, irrational, cobbled together from bits and bobs of other languages and, most annoyingly, changeable. Apparently it is a living language so the experts say, whatever that means, but I do wish it would just stand still from time to time.
