Just read an article where the author fiendishly attacks the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars and various Steven Spielburg films. You can read the article here While the article is quite humourous, the part I like the most is this bit… “What Jackson is essentially pandering to…is his audience’s adolescent reluctance to engage with the real world. A grand quest to save Middle-earth...

In what must surely be a prime candidate for a darwin award, a woman from Florida has been killed by her bookcase. More on the story here. The family searched high and low for the missing woman as the mother explains here… “I’m sleeping in the same house as her for 11 days, looking for her. And she’s right in the bedroom” The family “had noticed a strange smell from...

I know it’s everyone’s life mission to learn to speak Tamil, a language spoken in the south eastern part of India, Sri Lanka and parts of Singapore and Malaysia. Since everyone I know is wanting to learn this language (particularly Aravind!), I’ve created a quick cheat sheet on some of the most common words and phrases that I’ve picked up and are useful. vanakkam – welcome nandri...

I’m about to mention a major weakness that I have. But I acknowledge this weakness, and really wish I could prevent it. The weakness is: Shiney Object Syndrome It is the process of starting one project, seeing a new, shiney object (in my case, the shiney object is usually a new business idea or opportunity), leaving what you are doing and starting doing something else and never completing a project. I...

I hate posts about not much. But this is what this post is about…nothing much. At the moment I’ve got my Freshers writing a new content management script which could lay the framework for a script that I’ve been wanting for a while now. I was also looking at developing a ‘paid to read’ script but after doing some market research I found that the ‘PTR’ industry...

This week feels like I’ve gone back to school and am in a Business Studies class. My Indian cold has finally cleared up, and fingers crossed it won’t come back, so it’s been back to business. So how is it that I’m back in a business studies class? Well a few weeks ago I alluded to a new online/offline business that I was working on with Aravind and Anand. It turns out that...

And for any purists out there…yes, on peterclaridge.com, ucky is a real word! After reporting having a cold a few days ago, I thought I had gone into remission and by Wednesday was feeling not too bad. But on Thursday I felt worse than ever and was confined to bed for two days. I think India colds are bigger and better than UK colds. It’s a proper head cold causing my eyes, ears, nose and...