Aug
10
Rediscovered track of the month: Aug ’10
August 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Never was a big Cutting Crew fan but this is a beaut. I love the guitar at 1’46 . . .
Jul
27
Alex Higgins RIP
July 27, 2010 | 1 Comment
Like many who grew up in the eighties it was impossible to ignore snooker’s heyday. Not long after colour technology made snooker palatable for TV audiences the characters of the game were unleashed on a public hungry to learn more about this weird ‘sport’. I remember lapping it all up.
Jul
21
Bill Gates on the iPhone
July 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Ever wanted to ask a famous billionaire a question and have listened in vain to countless interviews with said person and urged the interviewer to ask the question you wanted? I finally got my wish. A few months ago I wrote here about how Bill Gates predicted the iPhone (he called it the “wallet PC”) […]
Jul
7
Kagame on African Aid
July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Last year in Tanzania I interviewed leading economist Jeffrey Sachs about aid to Africa. He was quite dismissive of my suggestion that South Korea was a good example of how a country can come from behind and make it without succumbing to all the problems that have plagued African countries (a suggestion incidentally which I […]
Jul
2
Rediscovered track of the month: July ’10
July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Every Rose Has Its Thorn by Poison . . .
Jun
4
The Macondo Well — the Marquez connection
June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Does someone at BP have a literary bent or is it just a coincidence? The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe which struck back in April (and which is still inflicting so much grief to the people of the gulf of Mexico today) was caused by a ruptured undersea well which was named Macondo. Now who named this […]
Jun
4
Rediscovered track of the month: Jun ’10
June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Shake Your Head by Was (Not Was).
May
23
Bill’s Predictions
May 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment
15 years on from the publication of The Road Ahead, The Atlantic publishes their verdict on Bill’s predictions. I take issue with them on point #2, The Wallet PC Verdict: Hit. Gates’s wallet PC is more or less today’s mobile smartphone with voice capability added. What the Atlantic fail to mention here is that Bill […]