Jazz - Why Ella is so great?

Ella Fitzgerald is by far the most appraised Jazz singer ever. She was a great improvisational artist, as evinced by this video :) Wanna hear more about Ella and the (at least) other two great ladies of Jazz Billy Holiday and Sarah Vaughan? Let me know through our FB group!

Fifteen Minutes of Fame

It is seldom that we talk about the things that we really love or we know a lot about to people that do not share that exact same passion or are not in our field of work. What a pity!

After discovering TED, I realised once again that it is possible to explain something difficult in just fifteen minutes and that (with the right tools) you can get someone else to be enthusiastic about it too.
Here are some ways to do it:


Dave Eggers about a great homework project he does with public schools in the US


Majora Carter fights environmental racism in the Bronx


CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, tells you to always stay hungry

Not just an idea?

So, I love to think, and I love to talk. I make up new ideas and say: "We should really do that one day". And then, nothing. Silence. Sweet and utter silence.

Well, as I am a big fan of (very tacky) American personal effectivity guru Stephen Covey, I decided to ask myself the question he asks in the "7 habits of highly effective people" - What one thing you could do, would change everything you do? In my case, it is to DO, to not only talk the talk, but also walk the walk, basically to execute my plans. Well, this blog is about exactly that. It is a forum for plugging ideas to see if anyone else finds them feasible. It is a place where I show how other have made their ideas reality and where I'll (hopefully) show off what I have done... The secret to doing - according to Covey - is to Begin with the End in Mind. If anyone has a nice mission statement to share, do let me know!