Watch "Charlie Rose - An Exclusive Hour with Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates" on Google Video

An interesting video on Buffett’s >$30bn gift to the Gates foundation.
Charlie Rose - An Exclusive Hour with Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates
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Valdas confirmed as Hearts boss

So, Romanov failed to bring in Mikailichenko then. It’s a shame, with his experience of Scottish & European football, his experience at Dynamo Kiev and then coaching the Ukrainian U21’s, he had the pedigree of someone who could have done a good job for us. I hope Ivanauskas does a good job for us but [...]

Community - what does it mean?

I’m reading John Ortberg’s book, “Everyone’s normal until you get to know them”, currently. Aside from the genius title, it’s been an interesting, and challenging, read. One particular point from this morning struck me:
Scott Peck says that most of the time we live in what he calls pseudocummunity. Its hallmark is the avoidance of conflict. [...]

Webster & Skacel to Southampton?

The BBC is reporting that Andy Webster and Rudi Skacel will be moving to Southampton. If true, I just ask why why why? It’s not like Hearts aren’t in Europe or anything? We’re a bigger club, in a better city and we’re going places. Plus we were allegedly going to pay Webster more than £10k [...]

News headlines in sidebar

You will have noticed that the news headlines have disappeared. This is due to the Bravenet news service failing to update for 4 days (somewhat demeaning the term “news” and despite using their problem solving message board, I am unable to rectify the issue. I understand that this has been a problem in the past. [...]

BBC to show WWI story of Hearts’ sacrifice

BBC2 Scotland will be showing the story of McCrae’s Battalion tonight at 9pm, so if you’re in Scotland, tune in.

The Long Tail

For the first time in a while I’ve just got a book from Amazon that I was actually really excited about, and actually ordered it before it was even available. It’s The Long Tail by Chris Anderson (Editor in Chief of WIRED). It discusses business in the light of the Internet making the tail of [...]

Give your feedback right here, right now

This article in WIRED is interesting. Imagine if Google was then to crawl the web fro any site that used this term. It would mean I could blog about any product and as long as used the specific word (which I don’t want to say here for obvious reasons - I’m not blogging about a [...]

One for all the English

So tell me this, is this racist? It’s not meant in that way but I’d be interested in your views. Happy to remove it if people take offence - it’s meant as a wee bit of banter.

Falklands shame

Apparently, the UK will have a major celebration of winning the Falklands war. This will be held some time during 2007. It’s very rare that I agree with someone like Tam Dalyell but he said that any celebration would be
a reckless, stupid thing to do
and I think he is spot on.
Why?1) This was a [...]