Free University Courses: No this is not a catchy title to try and get people to read my blog – today The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has launched its first free course – MITx, an electronics course – which is entirely virtual. MIT aim to ‘shatter the barriers of education’. While there already hundreds of… Read more
Breaking News: BTJunkie has Closed
Today is a sad day for progress in the case against recent SOPA/PIPA/anti-censorship campaigns. Btjunkie was essentially a directory of torrents (files which contain information about where to find other files) which was majorly used to download movies/software/music etc. – most of which was illegal. The point that we should be concerned about here, is… Read more
Attitude is Everything
Today I write my first ever post whilst flying – unfortunately not anywhere too exciting. I am going back home to Scotland for the weekend. I of course booked this flight a while back in order to secure a reasonable price for my wife and I. Unfortunately, the choice of airlines was extremely limited which… Read more
The Future of Giving
How many people regularly donate money to charity? I am currently planning a post written around how to integrate doing what you want to do and what you think you should do; so there will be more on this to come; but in the mean time here is some food for thought: I have been… Read more
Ban Bonuses?
What is everyone’s opinion on bonuses? There has been so much controversy in the UK lately over bankers and government department bonuses. Royal Bank of Scotland’s executive Stephen Hester was pressured into declining a bonus of almost £1,000,000 ($1.6m) due to public outrage; given that the bank is over 80% state owned. While, in my opinion… Read more
The Power of Music
Today’s post might seem totally random – and it is. I’m currently sitting on the train, on my way to work listening to my iPhone and it has just occurred to me how powerful music is. Music has the power to give me flashbacks from times which I had forgotten. Regardless if I’m mid task,… Read more
Somebody’s Watching You
One of today’s headlines on the BBC is that a guy has been refused entry to the USA for stating on twitter he was ready to ‘destroy’ the place. While many people think that this is a bit extreme, it’s certainly a wake up call to us all that social media / the Internet is… Read more
The Cost of Commuting – Is it Worth Buying Another car?
I hope that everyone had a nice weekend – I had a great time tackling the crowds in central London for Chinese New Year – it was absolutely chaotic! There were queues to get into every single restaurant! I haven’t seen that many people since London New Year’s Eve 2010! Got a short post… Read more
What the Airlines Would Rather You Didn’t Know
Today I want to talk a little bit about Airlines and their clever pricing structure. I recently got married and we decided to do this in Thailand. We both loved the idea of a beach wedding and wanted almost guaranteed good weather. January in Thailand gave us just that!! I could write for a… Read more
MegaUpload – Gone for good?
One of the owners of the ex file sharing service megaupload, Kim Dotcom, was today denied bail. MegaUpload is was a cloud storage solution which allows users to subscribe to various plans to host and download content. Unlike other hosting services, Kim’s strategy was clever; very clever. He had all the appropriate disclaimers stating that… Read more
Are You Still Interested in the Future?
I put a lot of thought into deciding upon a topic for this next post. I figured that those of you who decided to come back (if any) would be judging this blog pretty heavily over the first few posts. Today I want to talk a little bit about futurism! What is futurism you may… Read more
We All Live in a Beautiful World
Welcome to my blog and to my very first post. I want to spend this post giving you a little background information on some of my life experiences. This will give you an idea if we have anything in common and if you might want to return to read future posts. I’ll start at the… Read more