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Posted on February 11, 2012 - No comments yet

Award winning photographer

This photo was awarded 2nd prize – that’s not too bad considering this is the first time I entered a photo competition. So I guess I have some bragging rights until next year. It was quite a surprise to find out that my photo titled “Solemn Guards Standing Tall” was awarded second place Club Photo International 2011 Competition around the theme of trees, to celebrate the international year of forests. … Read more →

Posted on January 20, 2012 - No comments yet

Paperless publishing to revolutionize the way we learn?

Are we still going to rely on paper and pulp to give us books and publications in the future? According to this article, Apple may be revolutionizing the way we think about “books”. In it, the author Joshua Benton writes that a new iPad app may make “publishing” a breeze and paving the way for easy to produce and … Read more →

Posted on December 18, 2011 - No comments yet

To see or not to see?

I can’t believe it’s been almost a month since I last wrote in this blog. Time sure does fly, especially when we head into the holiday season with Christmas just around the corner. Maybe one of my new year’s resolutions should be to write more often… It seems friends and family, as well as some other people, liked … Read more →

Posted on November 23, 2011 - 2 Comments

With the right pitch, you can sell an idea in 4-minutes.

Honestly, on Friday night I wasn’t too enthusiastic about spending a weekend “locked” in a room with eight strangers to come up with a ‘start-up’ company. But, after listening to the 60-second pitches, the buzz of energy from the 100+ people who turned up, and the persistent and friendly Scottish brain behind the idea that interested me, I decided to give up 54 hours and a bit of sleep to get … Read more →