Getting the brain into shape

I think I've found a way to re-boot some of my synapses, neurons, etc, which have fallen into disuse since I stopped working full-time.

While channel-surfing one day, I discovered that funnyman Richard Quest was covering the World Economic Forum for CNN. That man can talk so much and so fast and his reports of the WEF were rather rivetting.

Of course the WEF is important, important issues were discussed, our PM was there, etc. However, I must confess it's not the kind of thing that I'd watch or read that much about, so it was a good thing that CNN sent him to Davos.

I caught some of the short interviews he did with CEOs, big shots of big-time organisations such as the World Bank, etc, when he got them to 'vote' in this 'recession-o-meter' (picture and story source) for whether they thought the economy was going into a recession or just a slow-down. No laughing matter, of course, but he made it sound so entertaining, and these CEOs and big shots were smiling and all. Cute.

Also caught his interview of Michael Dell, Bill Gates and Bono, talking about the Red Campaign to fight AIDS in Africa and the RED Dell computers launched to support this effort.

Anyhow, I learnt that Richard Quest actually has his own blog and programme on CNN.

So, it's time for me to once again pay more attention to some important world matters instead of spending too much time on mysoju, hee hee...

Incidentally, the results of the recession-o-meter show that more big shots think it's a slow-down that's coming and not a recession. Then again, it doesn't mean that if they think it's just a slow-down, it will just be a slow-down...