May 10, 2009

In Space No-one Can Bore You
It took 43 years; 80 Episodes of the original Star Trek television series; 624 episodes of the Next Generation and subsequent television franchises; and ten full length feature films for Star Trek to do what George Lucas and Star Wars did after just three motion pictures — come up with a prequel.
     As successful as the franchise has been, quite frankly, this installment of Star Trek hardly goes “boldly where no man has gone before.” Perhaps a little more disturbing is the plot which, though engaging, is somewhat lack...
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May 30, 2010

Crystal balls are cheap; good advice will cost a little more
   “My suggestion is that people should move to Asia; and teach their kids how to speak Chinese,” says Jim Rogers, the man who made his name, and fortune, betting against Wall Street in the 1970s. In 2007 he took his own advice, moved out of Manhattan and set up shop in Singapore, where both his kids are learning to speak Chinese.
    The author of several bestselling books, including A Bull in China, Rogers remains bullish about China and, as he says, “countries that are going to benefit from the rise of Asia, such as Australia.” I recently met with JIM ROGERS at his home in Singapore.
    It’s 29 degrees Celsiu...
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April 24, 2010

Q: The Music
What if music as we know it was to cease to exist? Composition, arrangement, the harmonies, the melodies, the phrasing, the timing… all gone. What if it all vanished and, from nothing, we had to start again? How could we possibly rebuild music? Where could we start and who would we start with?
     We could start with Quincy Jones. And from his lifetime of work, his collaborations, his compositions, his arrangements and productions, you could make it all again.
     It may not be the complete world of music that we know today but from the heart and soul of Quincy Jones we could make a world of mus...
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