I really do need to thank Tom Hamilton for this post which contains a link to this essay by Stephen Jay Gould I know its a bit of a nerdish thing to admit, but I’ve been a fan of Gould’s for a long time, and half a dozen of his collections of essays have pride […]
Entries Tagged as 'Heroes'
Stephen Jay Gould
August 9th, 2005 · Comments Off on Stephen Jay Gould · Life
Tags: Books·Evolution·Heroes·Maths·Medicine/Health·Statistics
More bad news
August 8th, 2005 · Comments Off on More bad news · Life, Music, Politics
With all the attention going to the untimely death of Robin Cook, its easy to overlook the news that Ibrahim Ferrer has also died. Both lives are stories of unfulfilled potential in a way. With Robin Cook there is the knowledge that he could have achieved so much more had things happened differently so that […]
Tags: Heroes·World music
Stevie Wonder
July 9th, 2005 · Comments Off on Stevie Wonder · Music
After watching the coverage of America’s Live 8 concert early in the week (yes. It does seem a lot longer ago than a week doesn’t it?) I decided to check that I had all my Stevie Wonder CDs ripped to the computer (and therefore the iRiver) I had the main albums on there already, but […]
Best speech of the year?
July 8th, 2005 · Comments Off on Best speech of the year? · Politics
I thought that Tony Blair’s speech yesterday was good (especially compared to George Bush’s response in similar circumstances in 2001) but Ken Livingstone has topped it with his in Singapore, especially the end: Finally, I wish to speak through you, directly, to those who came to London today to take lives. I do know that […]
Remembrance Day
November 14th, 2004 · Comments Off on Remembrance Day · Life
Today was Remembrance Sunday, and our girl was marching with the army cadets and laying a wreath after the town’s service, so we all went down to watch. Previously I had not had much to do with the Remembrance business until last year, when as Deputy Mayor, I went to the the town’s other parade […]
John Peel
October 27th, 2004 · Comments Off on John Peel · Music
Today I heard the sad news that John Peel has died of a heart attack while in Peru. I grew up with John Peel. First hearing him in about 1976 when the older kids at school were playing him on the radio in the dormitory, by the time I was at college at the end […]
