Personal miscellania

Here you'll find additional personal information that is relevant but which doesn't fit elsewhere on this blog. (If I do later incorporate it elsewhere I'll remove it from this post).

For now, I'll 'book this space' by directing you to a 100 things about me post I once wrote and put in another blog.

I enjoy seeing what computers can do. In 1985 I spent what was then the price of a house on a photo-editing workstations with the intent of starting a business of creating cross-stitch tapestry kits. At that time I was probably the first in the world.

I have a strong urge to set myself challenges. Exploits include taking part in ultra-marathons, not to mention marathons themselves (barefoot and once in flip-flops/Jandals, bathroom slippers). I've cycled the length of Japan and walked the length of New Zealand barefoot.

I'm an ideas man. Not all of them are good. Not many of them are worth implementing. But then again, as Bob Woodruff says, "Every new idea is born drowning."

For 25 years I meditated near on 2 and a half hours a day. At the time I felt that that was the best way to achieve self-actualization, my ultimate goal.