Self Improvement

Things to Remember

These are some things I jotted down one day last week, I’ll refine them a bit more later on. Think of it as an aide-memoire of things …

Not being much of a drinker, I’ve never felt the need to do dry January. Also Ingrid and I sat in a restaurant in Barcelona on January …

I often ponder whether the joys of waking up early are greater than those of staying up late. Empirical evidence seems to bear this out: all …

I’m pretty close to a round number. To date I have written 298,500 words for this blog, not counting posts that I have discarded or deleted. …

I recently started a new job and moved in to a new flat. This means I’m too busy to write any long blog posts at the moment. Also …

I’m a bit behind in my posts about the trip and this post interrupts the sequence of events somewhat, just because I’ve not felt …

Sometimes, when I am feeling a bit down, I like to write down some of my ambitions. As you can see from this list they are mostly pretty …

As indicated by my reading list posted a couple of months ago (which has since been added to here), I’ve started to try to read more about …

Dreams Of A Life is a documentary about Joyce Vincent, a woman who was found in her flat three years after her death surrounded by wrapped …

Reading a few articles about the recent launch of Google+, a few things hit home. Google tends to launch a product that works and not always …

Facebook is wonderful for keeping in touch but I’ve noticed that quite a few of my friends tend to use it to tell the world that they can’t …