Archive for May, 2008

Running for The Right to Play

Yet another thing I meant to get around to setting up/doing a couple of weeks ago:

Recently, I found out about an awesome charity called Right to Play, (who also have a UK division).

Over 700 million children don’t know what it means to play. Right To Play is helping to change that.

Right To Play uses the power of ‘play’ to improve health, build life skills, and foster peace for children and communities affected by war, poverty and disease. Using their specially designed sports and play programmes, Right To Play has projects in more than 20 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

It’s always been one of my life goals to run a full marathon – and indeed, this is definitely something I’m going to build up to before long – but when I found out that the Right to Play UK were the official charity of the London Parks Half Marathon 2008, I decided to jump straight in!

So, on Sunday 12th October 2008, I will be running my very first half-marathon. I’m aiming to raise £500 at the very least, but obviously any more than that would be very awesome indeed. If you could please dig deep and give as much as you can, I would be very grateful.

You can donate quickly, easily, and completely securely (and also anonymously, if you prefer) via my JustGiving.com website:

So please, please, please donate. :)

Some widgety goodness:

Watch me crank it, watch me roll…

… well, you could if some guy wasn’t standing in my way. :p

I meant to post this a while ago, but have had a completely unreasonably busy week. This was, of course, from last month’s ROFLCon session on dance crazes, entitled “Work it Move it Bang it Bump it” by Kevin Driscoll. Direct link to the video here: http://blip.tv/file/887655/

Can YOU spot me? There’s a prize if you can!*

* The prize may or may not be the revelation that there is no prize.

Eyetracking in World of Warcraft

Now this is pretty interesting:

(From Crunchgear)

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Entrepreneurship: Some quick links

My ROFLCon writeup is coming soon (possibly), as well as all the other news I’ve promised to catch up on (GDC, internship, life in general), but I’ll leave you with some quick ‘n’ interesting links today:

What is the #1 most important personality trait in an entrepreneur? Hint: according to Melissa Chang, it’s adaptability. I was glad to have discovered this blog actually, a lot of very interesting discussion on entrepreneurship, important and undesirable traits, and general reflections on starting up. Great Stuff!

Also – something close to home: The Kauffman Foundation published a new report about Education and The Tech Entrepreneur. Paul Kedrosky reflects on it here, and recaps some recent discussion going on in the blogosphere about the issue of ‘age and the tech entrepreneur’.

The latter is also kind of topical as it’s my 24th birthday today… :)

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