TG’s WEBlog (Known
as a BLOG or Blogging) 2003
January Blogs: Off to Lorne, e-networking, Chess, Sports Day, Genes, Kill the Peer, More Networking
Theory, Morphing Fun, Two Types of Salespeople, Intellectual
Property at School, Bowling for Columbine, Chinese Maglev, and 10 year predictions, New Weapons, Man United, What’s Wrong with British Sport, Dilbert
and the Way of the Weasel, SPAM, Inventing Fun, SUN, Search Optimizer, Camden High, And Even
More Contacts, Teenage Nightmares, Receiving it Back, Weasel, Diet, Networking, Technology 2003, Top Weblogs, Back to Tennis
and My New T-Shirt, Moneymaking, Get Connected, Gravity Travels at the Speed of Light!,
Mapping
Coincidence, Hot
Day, Scary,
Theories
of Networking, Evil,
Google Fun,
Georgia’s First Words, Back Ache and Update, Happy
New Year Resolutions
Thursday 30th January 2003
I’m off to Lorne to train for 2 days, so hang
in there reader(s)
I’m driving down
today and of course it’s pissing down with rain for the first time in weeks.
The Great Ocean Road is supposed to be one of the most beautiful
drives and views in the world, so I’ll let you know, and maybe I can add to
this from where I’m staying.
See you soon.
Wednesday 29th January 2003
I must say this
e-networking thing is starting to work.
I’ve been a
member of www.ecademy.com for over 6 months and not much happening, and
suddenly, I’ve met 3 people over this last week via Ecademy for business
meetings, just had one conversation on the phone with someone in Scotland, and
have a few other business offers on the go.
What’s happening?
I’ve also plotted
out on a piece of paper, the people I’ve met over the last few weeks, and how I
came to meet them. Who they were
connected to. It’s forming an amazing
pattern, with some people and nodes/businesses being strong points of contact
from where many things flow. And lots of
cross references.
I must find some
low cost or free software that can let me plot what the hell is going on.
Tuesday 28th January 2003
Kasparov has just
gone 1-0 up against the computer, Deep Junior.
This is an
important piece of news because it’s a good guide to how computers are
progressing and getting nearer to Artificial Intelligence.
You’d think that
a computer which can calculate up to 30 million moves per second would beat a human,
that analyses a few moves per second, but it just goes to show that
intelligence doesn’t just work on brute processing power.
A human is doing
something that computers still can’t quite manage, but they’re getting there.
Deep Junior
actually has less raw processing power than previous chess computers but uses
more “human” algorithms to exclude moves.
By the way time
to give you one of my more useless facts.
There are more
possible games of chess than atoms in the observable universe!
Think about that. That’s the Universe, not our galaxy, but all
observable galaxies.
No wonder a
computer still has a few problems.
What’s amazing is
that Deep Junior wasn’t making such good moves early on in the game, and
Kasparov has the confidence to believe he’s better than the computer, and trust
his own intellect.
Monday 27th January 2003
Played tennis
today in the sun. Beautiful.
Watched the Superbowl, though
I haven’t been watching American Football for a while.
And watched Agassi win his
eighth Grand Slam yesterday.
It’s interesting
to look at the all time list of Men
Grand Slam Winners
Agassi is a great
champion having won all 4 grand slams.
A few also stand
out. Wilander is right up there, and 3
Swedes in the modern era.
Being a Brit the
focus of tennis has always been too much on Wimbledon, but there’s some mighty
impressive performances even without a Wimbledon win.
I wonder how near
Leeds United are
near to bankruptcy and how desperate they are to sell players.
My friend Tony
told me he watched a late 70s film last night on the TV in the UK.
He asked me to
guess which one, and I got it straight away, first guess!
Sunday 26th January 2003
Three good links
today. Firstly, www.friendsreunited.com
have set up genesreunited at GenesConnected Home
Page . Another brilliant idea and potentially more powerful than
FriendsReunited because you don’t need so many people registered to have a
large number of names. There’s over
100,000 people registered, and over 1m names added, so that’s a ratio so far of
1:10, for people registered and then adding names.
Wired
11.02: The Race to Kill Kazaa is interesting to understand what’s going on with download music
and file sites, and the fight that’s going on to put them out of business. I can see both sides of the argument. The free download of music is being abused,
but the recording and film industry have abused us for long enough. As I’ve said before, how many copies of
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road do you think I’ve bought in my lifetime? It should only be one licensed copy. I’ve
been ripped off. And the cost of CDs
over the last 15 years; another rip off, so the industry is getting what it
deserves for outright greed. Hardly
surprising then that having been treated that way for so long, the consumer has
reacted.
Two other things
on this subject. Firstly, I wouldn’t
have bought any of the music I’ve downloaded anyway, in fact I’m now more
likely to buy music. And secondly, music
for me nowadays is crap. There’s nothing
to meet my taste. I’m sick of high
pitched rhythmic music with either rap or warbly voices.
Connect, They Say, Only Connect is another great article on Networking
theory and a hint at the mathematics behind it.
Saturday 25th January 2003
It’s very hot
today, hitting 44ºC!
Check this out
for a bit of fun
You can also
submit your own photos on the last tab, and morph them as well.
Friday 24th January 2003
I’ve noticed
something over this last week about people who sell.
They seem to fall
into two categories.
Those who have a
high activity rate and rely on that to generate successful sales, and those who
have a lower activity rate but a better quality of relationship with people,
and use networking to overcome their low activity rate.
I don’t want to
over generalise but those who don’t seem to have such good relationships with
clients seem to make up for it by raising the activity.
Of course you can
be good at both, but if you’re good at getting sales from just a few contacts,
you tend to have a lower activity rate.
At least that’s
how I justify my complete idleness, lack of activity, and call reluctance!!
Thursday 23rd January 2003
I was talking to
a friend who’s a teacher at school here in Australia.
Some of the
pupils help design school websites at their school; in fact some pupils are so
knowledgeable that they design the whole website.
Just one problem,
who own the IP?
In an
employer/employee situation it’s clearer cut with IP favouring the Employer
under the terms of employment, and payment of the Employee.
However in a
school there’s no contract and/or exchange of money.
In fact the
teacher on advice has been advised that the pupil owns the IP to a website
design for a school, even if it’s done on school premises, with school
computers in school time.
Of course I
suggested you can have a contract between the pupil and the school allowing use
and IP to be transferred to the school.
Just one problem here, you can’t (or can’t easily) draw up a contract
with a minor!
What a
nightmare. It means that any school
using pupils to help design their website are at risk of the pupil claiming IP
and withdrawing the work!
Wednesday 22nd January 2003
A great and
moving film.
Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine is a great
film.
Deep satirical
documentary, starting with why the two boys who committed the Columbine school
murders went 10 pin bowling that morning, and looking at a wider view of
American society. It is biased and I’ve
read somewhat inaccurate, and I’m sure there’s some fancy editing going on to
express the point, but even if it’s only 75% accurate, it’s a stunning
indictment of America.
Must be read in
conjunction with Stupid White Men
Ok, I know he’s
biased and hasn’t got all his facts correct, but still he has something very
important to say. Why are there so many gun related deaths and murders in the
States, relative to all other countries, not facing a civil war.
America; answers
please?
Tuesday 21st January 2003
Yippee, high
speed Maglev is up and running.
A pet subject of
mine, because it was one of my projects at University in 1980, so I’ve kept an
eye on it ever since.
What is Maglev?
Magnetic
Levitation. It means you can float one
magnet on top of another and enable the floating magnet to move along.
It’s very
efficient because there’s no rolling resistance so theoretically you can build
transport systems that can run at 500km/h and above.
In fact, if you
put a Maglev in a vacuum tube, you’d have no air resistance either, so speeds
of 10,000 km/h are achievable!
Wired
News: China Awaits High-Speed 'Maglev'
Strictly speaking
this isn’t the first commercial Maglev system.
The Brits of course, who else, I think had the first Maglev in Birmingham, which was a
slow urban Maglev, but this new one is great news if completed and becomes
viable. The Maglev in the Birmingham article makes a few other points I was
going to say, that it’s so efficient the NASA are investigating launching
rockets to cut launch costs to a fraction of current spending.
The key is to
have a passive track and an active train, and then the track costs and build
are much lower. Also, wouldn’t it be
great if you built the Maglev track on top of conventional railway track, and
cut costs. The thing about Maglev is
once built the maintenance is a fraction of the cost of conventional railways
because there’s no rail contact, as the Maglev flies 10mm above the track.
I can’t believe
my University project was written over 22 years ago and a high speed Maglev is
only now being put into commercial operation.
Talking of
predictions, here’s a few for the next decade.
Wired
News: Tech Predictions for the Decade
Monday 20th January 2003
I’m not sure I
believe this one, even though it’s written as the truth.
TIME Magazine: America's Ultra-Secret
Weapon and
Electromagnetic Bombs
Could Throw Civilization Back 200 Years
Maybe it’s
because I can’t conceive of anything being that powerful and invisible.
A bit worrying,
but it has the sound of the Star Wars Defence Shield.
I must read up on
this one and hear the alternative view about how it won’t work.
If it did work
than add this to the 9/11 events and it’s another reason for dispersing away
from cities.
Sunday 19th January 2003
Two rants today
in my Sports Rants
section, one on Man United’s win against Chelsea and the other about what’s
wrong with British sport.
I blame the
parents!
Saturday 18th January 2003
I’m just reading Amazon.com: Books:
Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel
More great Scott
Adams writing and Dilbert cartoons.
This cracked me
up last night as I was reading, I couldn’t stop laughing.
It’s from a
reader and quoted in the book,
“Dear Mr Adams,
Today wasn’t a good day. The Service Centre people were already a bit
edgy because of a recent worldwide ATM outage.
Then, about 9-00am, the network starts to crap out.
Phone reps can’t get to their
systems. Calls get backed up.
Then an announcement says there’s no water
to the building.
We’re told to stay out of the rest rooms.
And since the water was out, that meant the air-conditioning was out too, since
it requires water. It started getting hot in here.
Then the management made what I call on of
their power decisions…..
They sent in the clowns.
I’m going to repeat that, as it bears
repeating.
They sent in the clowns.
No, I’m not referring to senior
management. Those clowns would never
come down here.
I’m talking about real clowns.
Management went out and hired a troop of
floppy-shoed, white-faced, red-nosed, mop-haired, horn-tooting drama-class
dropouts to come in and “entertain the troops”.
So, let me recap: network out, temperature
unbearable, no water, no rest rooms, phone calls backed up, chaos everywhere
you look. And clowns roaming the building.
But the clowns did have an effect on
morale. You had to laugh at the fact
that the best solution our management could come up with was to HIRE CLOWNS.”
I’m still
laughing now. I like the “chaos
everywhere you look. And clowns roaming the building” bit.
And get this one
on a more serious note
“Dear Mr Adams,
I am a paramedic, and this really
happened.
I responded to an ambulance call for a man
having a heart attack.
When we got to the scene, the man appeared
stable.
It was a real heart attack but the man
wasn’t knocking on death’s door.
Before we could even get him out of his
office, his VP shoved papers under his nose to sign.
Then the boss asked us to take the
victim’s briefcase and laptop to the emergency room so he could continue to
work on a project.
His secretary told him he had a call
holding and asked him if she should take a number, or did he want to take the
call right then, or should she forward it to his cell phone so he could talk
while en route to the ER. Finally, as we
were rolling him out the door, I overheard a co-worker say, “If he doesn’t come
back, I’m calling dibs on his office.”
He recovered from the heart attack, but I
don’t know of he’ll survive the office.”
Friday 17th January 2003
SPAM on Hotmail
seems to be part of having a free Hotmail account.
But I don’t like
the two more sinister emails I’ve received from the same company that use my
hotmail address to send an email to a dummy account, so that I receive a reject
email telling me that my email (which I didn’t send) hasn’t reached the other
person. I’m then supposed to click on
the website that the email is talking about.
Here are a few
great suggestions of what to do with spammers.
TechTV | The Trouble With Spam and What to Do About It
Lessig’s idea is
brilliant. Outlaw SPAM and then let
hackers track down the perpetrators to collect the bounty.
I like this link
as well, about R+D in science being fun when you have no boundaries and
pressures. There are quotes from Nick
Negroponte who I’ve already quoted before from via Tom Peters!
Wired
News: Who Says Science Can't Be Fun?
I’ve predicted
the demise of SUN for years and always got it wrong.
I always thought
there was no room to move and that they’d get trapped eventually.
Amazingly they’ve
done more than survive over the last few years.
Could I be right
now? They’ve got too much cash stored up
to be in trouble; haven’t they?
Sun charges
lead to $2.3 billion loss - Tech News - CNET.com
This is a good Weblog
on Ecademy, about contacts for putting your website on to search engine
maximizers.
Optimizing your
website for search engines
And finally, the
Green Green Grass of Home.
This is spooky
seeing my High Street from where I last lived in London.
Great idea.
Camden
High Street, Camden - shops, bars and restaurants
Thursday 16th January 2003
And even more
contacts are coming my way from Ecademy and
other colleagues.
It’s good to put
so much out and then get something back.
I sometimes feel
I’m treading water and then I forget the work I’ve put in over the last year.
And a good
suggestion by John Moore to make my Sales
Training more prominent on this website, given that the Cluetrain button shows
up more than my own work!
It’s strange that
I took on another suggestion from John today, and I had two conversations with
people who are looking at similar things!
Amazing that when you start thinking about something it happens.
Wednesday 15th January 2003
It’s very
strange.
Since I’ve been
writing my Sexual Years about my teenage years, I’ve been having
nightmares.
I couldn’t sleep
this morning having woken up at about 5-00am.
Though I’m not
yet thinking so much about the people at my school, I’ve been dreaming about
them, and it’s that feeling of incompletion.
Not getting essays in, not being able to communicate with people, others
being better than me, knowing more than me, deadlines to meet, hurdles to jump. That tossing and turning feeling.
I used to have
recurring dreams of trying to play tennis or squash but it’s in a classroom and
the desks and chairs are getting the way, so I can’t play properly or produce
clean shots.
I think what
school did to me was give me a fear of exams and deadlines.
I can’t believe
that I don’t have to take another exam or test.
I have a choice.
Mind you there’s
my written Aussie driving test coming up soon!
I’m impressed by
what I’ve seen of Mel Levine who appeared on an Oprah show, talking about
dyslexic kids and learning difficulties. He seems a really nice guy, unlike
that Dr Phil who’s scary. In fact, Mel
Levine is the teacher I wish I had, and Dr Phil was the teacher I got! I noticed
that Mel Levine has just written another book.
Check these books
out the titles alone say it all, and certainly appeal to something deep within
me.
Amazon.com: Books: The
Myth of Laziness
Amazon.com: Books: A
Mind at a Time
And why is the word
“dyslexic” one of the most difficult words for me to write, spell and type!
Kind of ironic
(and ironic is my favourite word).
Tuesday 14th January 2003
I’ve written a
lot last year about putting out and receiving back in other ways.
Also coincidence
and networking.
And it’s started
happening again.
I put a lot into
networking on www.ecademy.com and received very little
back in the way of people contacting me, and yet suddenly I’ve had quite a few
new contacts this week. Finally it’s
paying off.
Just started
reading two great books in very different areas
Dilbert and The Way of
the Weasel
Monday 13th January 2003
I must have lots
of things to do today, because I have lots of links, so I must have done lots
of surfing to put off doing the things I have to do!
Firstly, this is
a great article on networking, something I haven’t been doing enough of today,
but at least I read a good article on it!
The 10
Secrets of a Master Networker
It’s bit extreme,
because most of us lack the focus and rags to riches background, with a chip on
his shoulder that Keith Ferrazzi has, but nevertheless it’s good networking at
its most extreme. Something to aim for
even if we only get part of the way there.
Next, a good
article on what was big in 2002 and what will grow in 2003. Very much on the nail and commonsense.
Good
Experience - Review of Bits, 2002/2003
Which Blogs to
read? Try these top 100 Technorati:
Top 100
Most of the ones
I read are in the top 100 but maybe not the top 10. It’s interesting that I’ve heard of a good
few of them but somehow they don’t always capture me and I stick to the ones I
like time and time again. These are;
Andrew Sullivan
Doc Searls
David Weinberger
WilWheaton
And of course I
just found a good blog by my friend John Moore
And finally, if
you want to waste a few minutes then check this out,
Sunday 12th January 2003
I played tennis
for the first time in 18 months today.
Now given that
I’ve played tennis almost all my life, I can’t believe I’ve let it go for so
long.
I was worried I
wouldn’t have the fitness or the shots, but like getting on a bike, it came
straight back to me.
The volleying was
good, except in an actual match (as per usual).
Forehand and
Backhand were quite good.
Just my serve
that was a bit of disaster, with lots of double fault and no rhythm.
It was great to
be back playing and intend to play almost every week.
Welcome Back.
When I run training
for groups on how The Internet works, I often refer to a spoof page set up by
me called “Tony’s Tennis Page” which is a website of me and my tennis
rackets. I’ve a good mind to create a
webpage for this.
Also, I’ve just
copied 2 designs onto HP Iron-On Transfers, printed them on my HP DeskJet 930C
and ironed them on to a T-Shirt. It’s
great fun and I’m going to work up some pictures of Annie and Georgia for
another T-Shirt.
Have a look at my
two pictures so far!
Kissing Frogs and
Saturday 11th January 2003
I’m finding it
incredibly difficult to change my spots.
My focus has never
been on making money, and setting my main New Year’s resolution as being
Moneymaking, is a real struggle. To
quote the book Big Bucks
The first
principle, “The Test of Joy” is,
“You can’t make money
Unless you’re having
FUN.”
In other word you
have to be passionate about the work you do.
More importantly
though is “The Test of Purpose”,
“You can’t make money
Unless Making Money is
MORE IMPORTANT
Than Having fun”
And that’s what
I’m struggling with. I’m having fun, but
I’m struggling to set making money as more important then having fun. That’s always been my problem.
I cruise through life
having fun.
It’s so difficult
to give up sending emails or reading news on the Internet, or surfing the
Internet, or letting Georgia interrupt me.
And in these first two weeks nothing has changed; I fritter away time.
The only way I
see it is to give some of these things up to create more time to do the things
I need to do to make more money. Or
alternatively, to put to use my vast knowledge through all my reading and
surfing, towards making money. So rather
than resist it, I play to it.
The trouble is
I’m a jack of all trades, master of none.
I just can’t focus and stick at one thing, I become bored too
easily. I have a vast goodish knowledge
of a lot of things, but very few areas of expertise, except of course selling.
Money is made
through bringing value to people and that’s usually done through expertise (or
corruption, or luck!).
It’s good to
write this down here and realise what I do and don’t do and to be aware of it.
The strange thing
is that money would give me the fun I’m already having, except a bit more
magnified and with more long term financial security and choice.
The reality is
that I live in a great city, near the sea, in a house which I like, with cars
that are good enough, with a wife and daughter I love, doing things I want to
do!
I guess the
challenge is sacrificing the present to invest in the future, but on the other
hand, tomorrow never comes!
No wonder I’m
confused.
Friday 10th January 2003
If you want to
make the best use of the Internet without the research on good chat rooms,
newsgroups, or email group/lists, then there’s a few websites for networking
that are starting to grow. Check out
this Guardian article which covers some of them.
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Click to the clique
I’m a member of www.ecademy.com which is good if you’re in the UK and especially
London. The American equivalent seems to
be Ryze which I’m also registered on but haven’t used yet, and
there’s been a few mentions of Friendster (use
“coke” as the password), and there’s also buddynetwork
Two kiddie ones
to check out for the 3D graphics are
Thursday 9th January 2003
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Einstein proved
right on gravity
So Einstein is
proven right yet again with his prediction that gravity moves at the speed of
light. It’s a bit mind boggling to
conceive what that means.
If the sun
disappeared now, it would take 8 minutes for the Earth to lose the effect of
the Sun’s gravity. In other words, the
gravity force from the Sun takes 8 minutes to get to us.
Since the force
is more or less constant, it’s taken until now to work out a way of measuring
the speed of gravity.
This begs the
next question, What is gravity? We can
see the effects of gravity, but how is gravity transmitted?
What’s even more
mind boggling it the comment in the article,
“Some of those
theories suggest that gravity could take a short cut through higher dimensions
and so appear to travel faster than the speed of light.”
This idea that there are
dimensions beyond the 4 we can identify, and that things can pass through other
dimensions and appear to travel in time, is amazing.
Well it amazes me!
Wednesday 8th January 2003
Amazing isn’t it?
I’m thinking of
mapping everything I know.
Ecademy is talking about networking links in its Yahoo group, and I come across
Activate and
InFlow - Social Network Analysis Software and Services by Valdis Krebs
have a look at some of the maps he’s written.
Real food for thought.
Somewhere along
the lines of what I was thinking about.
It’s great to
invent something and find out it’s already been invented!
The power of The
Internet.
Tuesday 7th January 2003
A hot day here in
Melbourne, with temperatures in the mid to high 30s.
Cycled this
morning down to St Kilda for a meeting, but consequently didn’t do that much
for the rest of the day except experiment with getting rid of frames on my
website and moving to tables. It has its pros and cons especially with me not
wanting to buy web development software and having to learn another bit of
software.
I quite like
writing in Word 2002 because it’s what I’m used to and for most of my website
it works and it’s very simple to use. But sometimes I wish I had more
flexibility or at least more documentation and help to even use Word 2002 for
HTML.
I have a few
ideas and I might crack through and try and get rid of the frames.
Watch this space.
Monday 6th January 2003
Now this is
scary.
White House budget office thwarts EPA warning on
asbestos-laced insulation
Is this
true? If it is it’s a disgrace. A double whammy.
A company has
been selling Asbestos laced products well into the 90s, and it contains one of
the most lethal forms of Asbestos, and worse still the Whitehouse has blocked
the release of any warnings!!
Tell me it’s not
true.
Sunday 5th January 2003
A lot of research
and literature is a now available on Networking.
This could be the
single most important discovery in science, because it may be a new way of
looking at all the sciences (and arts) in terms of mathematical models which
incorporate networking theory.
Networking is not
just about how people network, but it’s about how ideas proliferate, how
randomness can cause improvements, chaos, improving computing and communication
networks, evolution, the lot.
Check out this
article first and then read some of the books it talks about.
I must say, I
haven’t read the books either though I’ve been aware of them for quite a while.
Network theory's new math - Tech News -
CNET.com
“Inspired by earlier research on social
networks, the two struggled to find a coherent mathematical way to describe how
these networks were connected. What Watts and Strogatz found was
counterintuitive and profound: By injecting just a few random connections into
a complex network, they could make that network both more efficient and more
effective. The right random links create small worlds from vast complexities.
Randomness can dramatically improve the performance of a complex system rather
than ruining it.”
“Purely rational design
that once treated randomness as the enemy has been transformed; designers now
play with randomness as a tool to create "small worlds" that exploit
this power of serendipitous connection.”
“In fact, power laws
describe a radically different kind of distribution. There are no peaks; no
symmetries; no bell curve. Power laws look nothing like traditional
school-taught statistics. Yet they do a far better job of reflecting how much
of the real world behaves. The distinguishing feature of a power law, Barabási
writes, is that its distribution is wildly skewed: Numerous tiny events coexist
within the few very large ones that actually matter.”
That
is amazing stuff. It’s inspired me to
come up with Unified Theory of Tony.
Unifying
everything I’m working on and thinking about into a single document!!
Saturday 4th January 2003
Just in case you
think you’re evil and you may want to buy a few things, here’s the website for
you.
VillainSupply.com | Your Online Source For Everything Evil (TM)
I particularly
like this piece under the Miscellaneous Section
“Wait a minute, you're thinking -- Nazism
failed, despite the snappy costumes, due to outdated racist ideology, bad
military decisions, lousy cryptography, and the amazing propaganda power of
American Warner Bros. cartoons. Why would I want to hire a bunch of inbred
misfit losers, adhering to a failed ideology, and who can't muster enough brain
power between them to jump-start a penlight? The answer: volume, volume,
volume. We recruit these drooling pinheads through publications like Soldier of Fortune and Teen People, outfit them with
patches, baseball bats, and malt liquor, and set them loose on an unsuspecting
public. Great for random acts of violence, drunken brawling, synagogue desecrations,
and incest. Especially useful if you are planning to take over Montana. Bulk
rates.”
Well worth a surf
round the website.
Friday 3rd January 2003
Have a look at
some Google demos of trial systems they may bring to the market.
These are just
ideas they want to test.
labs.google.com - Google Demos
Google Webquotes
for quotes about a website made by other sites.
Google Viewer for
viewing results that scroll on the screen without a mouse or keyboard
Google Glossary
to find words, phrases, acronyms (I’ve been wondering what G.O.P means)
Google Sets, you
name some names and Google will link them together with other names
Georgia has
started talking this week. Not her first
single words which she’s been saying for months, like Da Da, Ma, Ta, but it’s
spooky when she points and says,
“Oh Look!” and
her other one is,
“What’s That!”
Thursday 2nd January 2003
Overnight my back
went into spasms, and it was even worse this morning.
Every movement.
I just couldn’t
get comfortable.
It calmed down by
lunchtime just leaving a dull ache.
I don’t know
what’s causing it.
My spine and
discs feel ok, just my back muscles setting each other off.
I’ve added some
more updates today, it’s taken some time to scan the photos in, I hope you
enjoy it because I do!
Wednesday 1st January 2003
Happy New Year.
Time for some New
Year’s resolutions, but first I must have a look at last year’s resolutions.
Actually I didn’t
as such have resolutions last year, just wishes, hopes and dreams for the next
5 years.
So how are they
coming along?
Well, I wanted
2002 to be the year of writing, and it sure was.
I never stopped
writing and now I have a vast resource to draw on in a number of areas.
Creating the
start of something big in a large corporation hasn’t quiet happened but I have
had a major impact on 2 organisations but with very little change!
Writing more on
Sales Training and Self Development, I achieved that big time.
The start of
something BIG, well not quite but I’ve always felt that.
Time with Annie,
yes, but not enough. Time with Georgia,
yes.
More sports and
sports events, I really failed there except for going to the soccer.
My perfect day
for 2003 is just as it was for 2002
The perfect day for 2002 (now 2003) would include the
following. Up early, Journal for 45
mins, go for a walk or cycle, breakfast, read email, surf the internet, time
with Georgia, time with Annie, writing, developing/delivering course work,
build my website, read, networking, cycle or rollerblade by the sea, send
emails.
And that’s just the start.
How am I going to fit it all in? Oh and FUN!
And my 5 year dreams still
stand.
And most important are my new set of 5 year
dreams. Since all my dreams come true,
not always in the way I expect them (so be careful what you ask for Tony).
And so to 2003,
what New Year’s resolutions would I like to make.
Moneymaking is
going to be one of my main focuses.
I spent 2002
setting up business and delivering training.
Very good for my
first full year here in Australia, but now it’s time to step up a level and get
a bit more entrepreneurial.
Rule 1 from Big
Bucks is
“You can’t make money unless you’re having
fun.”
I’ve got that one
sorted out, but more important is rule 2
“You
can’t make money unless making money is more important than having fun.”
That’s my
challenge for this year - Moneymaking
Have a Great 2003
What are your New
Year’s Resolutions?