Baby it’s cold outside (seasonal norm 7C, today -11C)

Wow - this is the way to defeat ignorance - use some actual knowledge!

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By now, if you haven’t heard the outrage at the TSA’s “enhanced” pat-down procedures, then you don’t use the internet, and you’re not reading this blog.

They grope children. They touch your junk. The procedures are ludicrously ineffective and harmful from a security point of view. And the…

‘Whatever it takes’

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.

You must set yourself on fire.

If your competition does 50 push-ups, you do 51. If they go the extra mile, you go the extra 10. If they are fast, be faster. If they are smart, be brilliant. If they have the bigger hammer, you have the sharper nail.

Don’t solve problems, anticipate them. Don’t promise results, get them. Treat every challenge as an opportunity in work clothes.

Know that well done is better than well said. That it is not just the hours you put in, but what you put into the hours.

Let others dream of worthy accomplishments. That’s okay. You stay awake, and do them. Believe you can’t be beaten and you won’t. Believe that there is plenty of room at the top, but not enough to sit down.
This little poem was on a card my wife bought me to inspire me some years ago.  I copied out the words and then promptly lost the card!  I wonder if it really inspired me after all?

This is a great article and sums up my feelings nicely.  I really am wondering what I need to do about my facebook account.  Maybe it’s time to leave……

Yesterday I gave my eight year old son the Subutteo set which my Grandmother gave to me on my seventh birthday. I thought he would laugh at it, but he loved it and has played with it all weekend long. Isn’t it strange that no matter how much changes, nothing really changes?

I’ve just got a new motorola milestone (droid). so far I’m impressed. So what are the ‘must have’ android apps I should install?

As a father travelling to New York in November with my family, I’m now frightened about getting on the plane, not the flight!

Teens face sex assault charges

Party pranks result in six people charged in Turtleford area case