Vlad's Blog – January 2010 Archive (2)

If you have a spare 20 mins or so, have a wee listen to this. The woman is pretty impressive.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jk_rowling_the_fringe_benefits_of_failure.html

My sisters and I live far apart, but we have an amazonian connection. In other words, we like to order books and send them to each other through amazon, then we'll email or skype each other about what we thought of them. My sister in Ireland has a habit of sending me fiction that makes me laugh out loud or cry - if it gets that much of an emotional response from me then it's a good book in my view. One time she sent me some non-fiction that nearly made me cry for a different… Continue