I’ve just started reading The Art of the Start - the time tested, battle-hardened guide for anyone starting anything - by Guy Kawasaki.
I’m only a few chapters in but it’s a great book. I was particularly struck by the first few paragraphs of the Introduction or “Read Me First”:
There are many ways to describe the [...]

I was very sad to read that Walter ‘Wally’ Schirra has passed away. Wally was the only astronaut to fly on the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space missions and whilst he never walked on the moon his Apollo 7 mission was a vital step towards that incredible achievement.
Of the 12 men that walked on the [...]

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?””What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, ‘I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?’” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.
A. A. Milne, “The House at Pooh Corner”

For a long time I have enjoyed reading Ink Quest which features the experiences, trials and tribulations of a fellow obsessive’s search for the perfect fountain pen ink. It made me feel so much better to realise that there others out there who are perhaps slightly more obsessive even than I.
However, I feel I [...]

To follow my Top 5 of 2005 I present my Top 6 of 2006…
Books
My reading has been dramatically affected by my no longer working in London. Where I would easily read a book a week commuting in I have read about three books since leaving my job in London in July! Not good…
1. The Alchemist [...]

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

He Wishes [...]