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Feb 7

“The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for change and on himself as an instrument for change. Otherwise, what are you creating for? If the world is perfectly all right the way it is, you have no place in it. The creative personality thinks of the world as a canvas for change and of himself as a divine agent of change.” Jacob Bronowski
(via azspot)

Feb 6

My Tumblr is now on Twitter...

Ever the social meeja geek, I thought I’d set up a new Twitter account to auto-tweet my Tumblr posts, so as not to annoy/spam existing Twitter followers with a linkfest.

Self-indulgent, I know, but I like playing with this stuff. It’s there if you want it!

Feb 6

“Apparently one of the byproducts of the military operations ordered by [her husband] is that there are now lots of boys in Sierra Leone and Kosovo called Tony Blair.”

Liverpool Daily Post covering a Cherie Blair fundraising event for the Labour party in Liverpool.

Also interesing to hear about her debates with Dubya Bush and how she was “being a Scouser” by stepping outside Number 10 in her pyjamas.

Feb 6

“Frankly, I could care less about having my real life become a video game. (Is this what happens when you become a father?)”

NYTimes.com

This line about the reward systems in Foursquare made me laugh :-)

Feb 5

Game mechanics

Today in interesting Wikipedia articles…

Feb 5

“The intelligence community is developing a system called A-Space, a sort of Facebook for spies that holds profiles of analysts from various agencies and allows them to contact one another and to share large amounts of text, graphics, images and videos.” “Facebook for spies”? Way to dumb down, The Economist

Feb 5

“The huge loss is one of the biggest black holes ever seen in a private equity-backed business and threatens to shred the reputation of Guy Hands, the outspoken City financier whose Terra Firma group paid out more than £4bn for EMI just before the credit crunch took hold in the summer of 2007. It could also, ultimately, push the famous record label into the control of US bankers.” EMI crashes £1.5bn into the red

Feb 5

“Venture capital is something to do at the end of your career, not the beginning. It should be your last job, not your first.” Guy Kawasaki

Feb 5

“A lack of features is a feature in and of itself.” Andrew Parker

Feb 5

Solid Advice

acehotel:

From Lucien, 6, in the mezzanine drawers at Ace Hotel Portland.

My (already pretty good) life would genuinely be made even better by following this advice. I defy anyone to disagree.

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