25 Years Of Planning… I was watching the news yesterday about the “Rosetta” mission – a robotic probe landing on a comet 300 million miles away from earth. It’s an amazing achievement and took 25 years to plan and execute, apparently. The probe was launched more than 10 years ago on 2nd March 2004, estimated […]
The Definition of Insanity
I am sure you have heard this before – The Definition of Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The quote has been attributed to both Einstein and Franklin. According to Wiki – neither are true. But the statement sure is. And that made me think – why is […]
Comfortable inaction
Comfortable inaction is not doing something because at the present time the consequences of not acting are not bad enough to force you to take action. To make this clearer here are some examples: • Thinking “I need to lose weight,” but doing nothing about it because you can still fit into your clothes. • […]
A really scary story for halloween
When I was a kid we didn’t have trick or treat. We didn’t really have Halloween at all – we might watch a scary movie – that finished by 1am when the TV went off at a weekend. Yes – I AM that old. Now here’s a really scary story for Halloween… There is nothing […]