Friday, June 24, 2011

Taking a Note

Greg Mortenson is the co-founder of nonprofit Central Asia Institute www.ikat.org , founder of Pennies For Peace www.penniesforpeace.org , and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Three Cups of Tea www.threecupsoftea.com , and author of the bestsellerStones into Schools www.stonesintoschools.com .

In 2009, Mortenson received Pakistan’s highest civil award, Sitara-e-Pakistan (“Star of Pakistan”) for his dedicated and humanitarian effort to promote education and literacy in rural areas for fifteen years.

Several bi-partisan U.S. Congressional representatives nominated Mortenson for the Nobel Peace Prize this year. The award recipient is chosen by a secret process and announced in October.


- after having listened to Three Cups of Tea earlier this year.
Text from here.

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Change of tone

that glorious piece of work needs to be done tonight, so..

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

On the playlist

trying to get some work done tonight, I've accidentally come across the Faint's albume (and tune), so here's a remembrance of tonight



posting this youtube video reminds me of just how many changes youtube's been through recently; either that, or I might have been neglecting it for prolonged periods of time.

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Sunday, June 05, 2011

A Top 10 for the week

Consider this topic: Overworked? No Way: 10 Countries With the Best Work-Life Balance. Now consider possible common sense answers. I thought they were pretty obvious.

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Saturday, June 04, 2011

Jack Kevorkian's Death

Stumbled upon the news as presented by the BBC - which brought back plenty of memories.

Later edit: Just as I was writing of stumbling, the SU digest suggested a reading to match: God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian - as mentioned here (at number 10).

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