One of the images that struck me in the lead up to the Olympics is US swimmer Michael Phelps telling the word that he would be winning 8 gold medals at the Olympics in a fashion that can only be described as arrogant to the max. He was going to win everything he competed him. 3 events down, 1 Gold medal. Beaten by Ian Thorpe over 200m. Thorpe himself has now one 2 from 2. The difference is telling: Thorpe, the model of honest modesty with style, stated before hand that he would endeavour to do his best and made no promises of Olympic Gold.
Big words do not always make for big action.
Author: admin
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The demise of the great white hope
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The lost spectators of the Athens Olympics
Im watching far too much olympics at the moment and not enough time blogging, if the Blog Herald is a little short in the next two weeks you’ll know why. One thing strikes me though, with the exception of the Swimming, the stands at ALL the other events are nearly completely empty. In Sydney you couldn’t get into the Greko-Roman wrestling heats let alone a decent event, but the Greeks seem to be watching at home and not on site. Bizarre
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New Jersey Governor Resigns due to Gay affair
In a stunning declaration, Gov. James E. McGreevey acknowledged that he had an extramarital affair with another man and announced his resignation Thursday. “My truth is that I am a gay American,” he said.
“Shamefully, I engaged in adult consensual affairs with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony,” the married father of two said. “It was wrong, it was foolish, it was inexcusable.”
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Like we all need to work harder
Wired: Turning Slackers Into Workaholics
Researchers use a gene treatment to turn off monkeys’ dopamine receptors – yielding harder-working, more focused monkeys. Despite obvious applications in the corporate world, the scientists say they’re just trying to understand mental illness.
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Txt as a tool in US politics
Wired is running a story that txt has been picked up as a tool amongst political campaigners in the US. Ive never understood why txt has taken so long to take off in the US? Just for once the rest of the world is far ahead here with the tool being used for years for political purposes and communications of all sorts in the rest of the developed world, except interestingly France, so a report I recently read stated.
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It’s back
After testing evey blog tool after the sun and then learning wordpress from the bottom up, my personal blog rises from the dead to return some 9 months after the last effort was abondoned due to The Blog Herald taking up far too much time. Ive missed the opportunity to blog on things non-blog related, particularly with an election this year in the United States. So my first resolution is to regularly blog here: I might not end up a Dave Winer in my posting stakes but atleast I’m back and ready to blog on matters non-blogging, with WordPress under the hood. Thanks to Michael Heilemann. for agreat template to work off.