Posted on 17 May 2012
The road of life has looked a little rocky lately. I won’t go into detail about the details of my life and what specifically was not working, but let’s just say, all things considered, progress hasn’t been good. A few hours after discussing the situation with a friend, he posted this on his Facebook wall. [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 10 May 2012
It was bank holiday Monday when I joined 3 friends to embark upon the most difficult physical challenge I had ever inflicted upon my body. And that’s coming from a guy who has scaled Ben Nevis, Snowdon and Scarfell Pike. It was the Northumberland Coastal Challenge Walk 2012: 26.3 miles of wind swept coastline along [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 10 May 2012
Online TV is great. As usual the geeks got there first and the mainstream media was typically slow to catch up. But now in 2012, virtually every broadcasting TV network in the world makes their programs available online for viewers to watch at their own convenience. There’s only one catch: Have you ever thought of [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 19 January 2012
You may have noticed today that Wikipedia is blacked out to protest SOPA. I cannot accurately express in words how proud I am of the Wikipedia Foundation for taking part in this protest, but I’ll try: Very to the power of one billion. But I think it’s even more than that. If you haven’t already [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 05 January 2012
New Year’s Resolutions are a nice idea – they indicate making solid, positive and lasting changes to our lives and how can self improvement be bad? But the bad news is that the vast majority of people that make New Year’s Resolutions just don’t stick to them for longer than a week or so. Here are [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 01 January 2012
So, in 2012, I, Adam Patel, resolve to… #1. Get Up Earlier (at 7am every day including weekends -well, possibly not Sundays) Being honest, I hate waking up early. Up to now, my definition of freedom has somewhere included the words “man should have the right to wake up naturally”. And this was all well [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 29 December 2011
It is an annual ritual for me, during the week between Christmas and New Year, to relive the year I’ve just lived through, take stock of the lessons that can be learned from my mistakes and celebrate my achievements and triumphs. And thanks to Facebook’s new Timeline profiles, we are living the most heavily documented [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 28 October 2011
Ahead of the London premier of the film in early November, Superman Requiem has been featured in December’s edition of Total Film magazine. This is incredibly amazing for two reasons: Number one: I grew up reading Total Film. I have quite a few issues of Total Film in my collection. Throughout my teenage years it [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 25 October 2011
Richard Branson has been one of my role models since I first heard of him. In this post he explains what success means to him. And prepare for a surprise. Continue Reading
Posted on 20 October 2011
So after more than a year of silence, in mid October, Apple finally released its next generation iPhone, the rather depressing iPhone 4S. Continue Reading