Some think I recently fell in love with

I recently did a spontaneous buy in the UK. I generally don't do much of that, but whenever, I do it, turns out for the very best. I bought "Change the world 9 to 5" from wearewhatwedo books.

This guys stand from what we share as our ideals, they live by it. Awesome!

Check out their website, buy their books:
Change the world 9 to 5
Change the world for a fiver

Also, they are not just in their to make money: one of the actions in the book is to pass the book around to 10 different people instead of getting them to buy the book! Even if you don't have the book, you can check out how many actions you have done online.

Some news from all around the world!

Chris B (Japan) pointed to a great write up on my favourite robo-explorers featured in the Onion:
Mars rovers begin to hate it

They even have a massive daylight surplus this week! LOL

Anna (Canada) emails me yet another very bizzare piece of news, erm, something that I could have done without... so you've been cautioned: News.au

But a side story really does amuse me: Japan tourists suffer from Paris syndrome!

More contributions encouraged, though it does mean I stay up late after finishing work to laugh out loud in bed!

Va va voom

Race car show in Valencia on the 3rd day of IAC...
They let me slip into that wee little red number!

My Hero!

So, this is the guy, along with two others who fueled my summer with inspiration on changing the world! And lord behold, I wasn't the only one spellbound by his work:

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006, divided into two equal parts, to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for their efforts to create economic and social development from below. Lasting peace can not be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty. Micro-credit is one such means. Development from below also serves to advance democracy and human rights"

Reading the International Herald Tribune, it stated that he dreams that one day our future generations will go to museums to see what poverty was like. Awesome! Nows that a great dream to be reaching for - thanks for inspiring us Dr Yunus and for giving strength, confidence and a livelihood to thousands others!

Starfleet academy - Miss Valencia

Our conference centre for the IAC 2006.
And the sun sets over Valencia...

Estupendo!

E.T go home

So, Bath is no longer home - whatever is left of home is a spare bed in August, Fran and Ed's house and maybe Keri's floor. Mum and Teju moved away at the start of September to a new place - in wimbeldon! Shorty has not much going for the place and wants to be with his sweetheard in Leicester, so he will be packing off very shorty (infact, I was convinced he was already there!)

Its funny, how you have all things in one place one moment and no ties in the very next. OK, 'no ties' is a bit of a drama queen stretch - but my heart still wants to walk around the pedestrian streets or on Argyle street on the way from Chris's Henrietta park place listening to the church bells and nodding to everyone who smiles and knows you - like the people at Bang and Olufsen or the Bath Rugby store or the icecream lady near the park bench where Lew and I used to gaze at Tulips. All good memories! (Reading this again, I actually sound like I am sixty! nevermind!)

But so, is wimbeldon new home-home? I guess, or maybe its still riverted back to India - I like that better. For some reason, I was never a london person. Also Chris is up up in Newcastle. Although he protested strongly, I swear that place was so cold and windy! But thats English Autumn, ey?

So, E T went home - had some good rest, walks into town, went to London, saw Mum and sis's new place (new home, kids - very pretty!) and had some gorgeous gorgeous home cooked food by Mum. Now that feeling is definitely home. :-)

This is your Space, Baby

Space Generation Congress was awesome meeting all the people who share the passion to change the world. Talking to Chris B - the only other fella I have met yet who has just as crazy ideas as myself. He wants to make going up in space as easy as getting a bus and wants to go to Neptune. He dreams about how it is to fly into the atmosphere: fantastic.

For once, when I told someone about the 'self-replicating asteroid hitch-hikers' they didn't laugh. I like the space gen people, so cool that a talk list can bring people to dream together! Someday, I ll master how to do it and be the first one to step on an asteroid - I can do with the water, metal and the dirt, but most of all, I want the ride to the unknown cosmos! :-)

So, if you read my blog, whats your fire?