Quote of the day
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six sharpening my axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
Posts from December 2012
Good Morning
Dawn, a few days ago, at Castletown, Isle of Man
Evening Hunter
Tilly in action on a recent walk.
Big Boys' Toys
Saw this in a nearby field last week. Tractors are things that shouldn't be done half-heartedly.
Safe Harbour
Castletown, Isle of Man
An Italian telling people not to talk so much?
It's almost too easy to find inspiring TED talks, so I don't often post them here now, but this one particularly attracted me.
Ernesto Sirolli manages to give some great advice on aid (which is also relevant in the developed world) and on high-tech entrepreneurship (which is also relevant in the developing world). To do both of these in such an amusing and impassioned way, in just 15 mins, is sheer brilliance.
(Very nicely filmed, too)