I still enjoy this track and it kicks off my training every day
Archive for January, 2009
I played it last year and here we go again
Posted in Health - Body on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
3 bikes 3 flat tires
Posted in Health - Body, Poland, economy on January 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This post was written because 4 weeks ago a very good friend called to tell me that he had lost his job – I gave him this advice and today he called to say I picked him up and he went out the very next day, did what I suggested and he now has a [...]
British comedy movies anyone?
Posted in Things I Like, tagged UK Films on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The UK Film Council is launching a search engine that will help British movie goers track down their favorite films, from the mainstream to the obscure.
The website (www.FindAnyFilm.com) is free to use and contains records of more than 30,000 films, or roughly seven years’ worth of viewing, and they come in 20 genres and over [...]
What I have stopped doing
Posted in Health - Body, Observations, Things I Like on January 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’m not sure when it happened but I’ve noticed a total feeling of calm within recently, not a Godly type calm but certainly some type of spiritual calm – I’m sure its not enlightenment, an awakening or achieving meaning. But its refreshing…whatever this feeling is.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not floating on hallucianating mushrooms or [...]
Start off right with a walk
Posted in Poland, Things I Like, health on January 19, 2009 | 40 Comments »
Here’s a great tool to help you get walking – just enter in your home address, office address or whatever and see the walking distance to parks, schools, book stores, restaurants, coffee shops, cinemas, etc.
Walk Score
Just drop the arrows to the left and you will get a list of selected local places.
No excuses not to [...]
Black Swan
Posted in economy on January 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’ve just finished reading Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and I have to agre with the positive reviews this book has received, it is a must read – Taleb is a genious who must be heard by Financial Regulators.
One of the tools he advocates abolishing is VAR (Value at Risk) this is a tool [...]
Oops there goes the złoty again
Posted in Poland, economy on January 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
So the złoty might be going down hill against the euro and other currencies but the worst impact will be how it is comparing against the Swiss franc. I have a lot to write on this subject, most of which would be along the lines of “I told you so”…..
Estimates are that up to PLN [...]
How to fix the credit crisis
Posted in Observations, economy on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First off who’s to blame – well right now I am happy to report in principle it’s the bankers. I can say that because I don’t want anything from them.
Let’s look at the situation – when I was a young student, I was terrified about asking the bank for a loan – bank managers always [...]
Cooking Dinner in the shower
Posted in economy on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a big fan of Economics, I admit that despite struggling through economy at University I have been rekindled to it after its resurgence thanks to steve Levitt, Tim Harford, et.al but the one that inspires me the most and in my opinion the funniest is Hal Varian he’s on secondment as Google’s Chief Economist and [...]
What will change everything?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This years Edge question posed to some 150 scientists, authors, musicians, philosophers and other respected experts were posed the question “What will change everything?” (I was omitted for some reason!).
This has to be one of the toughest questions to answer and the responses certainly seem to be diverse, although they were just posted yesterday so I [...]
