Guy Kawasaki was one of the original Mac evangelists for Apple computer and now is a venture capitalist who plays hockey. On his blog he has a video on a clever idea to use the energy from a children’s play structure to provide clean water for a village.The importance of clean water is explained in …
Stephen Covey in the 7 Habits of Highly Successful People writes about the gap between stimulus and response where we have free will to chose and take responsibility for our response. This is habit 1 Be Proactive. To quote from the 7 Habits wikipedia article: 1. Be Proactive. Here, Covey emphasizes the original sense of …
Check out this Youtube video on whether it is a good idea to do something about global warming. Arnold Schwarzenegger also has an environmental message that managing the risk doesn’t have to be all about sacrifice and not living an attractive lifestyle. Technorati Tags: Environment
Here is a wishlist of Wii interactive games from Brain academy, Dance Dance revolution, Guitar Hero, on up to Boogie. Description Purchase Price Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party Bundle (Nintendo Wii) Buy Online $79.99 Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo Wii) Buy Online $49.99 Cranium Kabooki (Nintendo Wii) Buy Online $39.99 Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest …
This article from lifehacker provides an overview of why so many people are keen about using lists to achieve their goals and different ways it can be approached.Breaking goals down into small tasks and focussing on the next action can be really effective in tracking progress (love those little checkmarks) and getting things done (GTD). …
I am still using Googledocs for some of my goal tracking but I found joesgoals has a lot of the features I was looking for.I particularly like the capability of tracking both things you want to reduce and things you want to increase.Ben Franklin’s virtues of tracking goals for not doing things can be balanced …
Benjamin Franklin was a wise man as I have blogged about before. Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is online and it provides a very instructive guide to his character development and experiences he had through his varied career. At this time of new year resolutions, here is Ben’s life long (20 years of age to 84) list …
Ottawa Snow 4, originally uploaded by Gavin Sharp. Photo taken by Gavin of the snow piling up outside our house.It certainly was a white Christmas although not so much in Calgary.
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A couple of Ken Follett books set in the middle ages which I have particularly enjoyed: Pillars of the Earth I read this a few years ago and now it is an Oprah book club selection. Wikipedia has an article about Pillars of the Earth but don’t look at it before reading the book since …