http://www.tonyhaile.com Revolutions Started, Alligators Castrated, Bars Emptied, Uprisings Quelled Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:42:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=955Y3NJTRIE[/youtube] We can see from this the quips vs. substance argument Biden will likely take. http://www.tonyhaile.com/2008/09/07/the-veep-debates-will-be-interesting/ via PopTech. http://www.tonyhaile.com/2008/09/01/the-girl-effect/ Last year I wrote about my friend John Lake, who battled his way past brain tumours, depression, suicide bids and time in mental institutions to run the London Marathon and in some way find his purpose again. John took something from that day and, to abuse a pun, he ran with ... http://www.tonyhaile.com/2008/08/28/ironman-john/ [youtube]uephBmkupvQ[/youtube] http://www.tonyhaile.com/2008/01/23/science/ [googlevideo]-5784740380335567758[/googlevideo] Professor Randy Pausch  was three months and 12 days into his three-to-six months of good health left after Doctors diagnosed him with Pancreatic Cancer. This incredibly useful talk is made all the more poignant by the fact that this is a man who truly knows what it means to have ... http://www.tonyhaile.com/2007/12/11/time-management/ [youtube]zXuzy0k9mZQ[/youtube] Footage from the yacht race I was a part of in 2000 has made its way on to youtube. Marvel at our death-defying feats, and see if you can catch the blink-and-you'll miss it footage of me cowering below decks under my duvet with my teddybear firmly in my grip. http://www.tonyhaile.com/2007/06/20/fun-and-games/ On 6 March, Rosie Stancer stepped off Ward Hunt Island and on to the frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean. With temperatures sinking past -50C, her eyelashes elongated with ice and every millimetre of exposed skin burning with the cold she pulled her sledge over serried ranks of 30 feet ... http://www.tonyhaile.com/2007/05/30/furthest-north/ The Swann Galleries in New York are holding an auction of the polar library of Dr. John M. Levinson, a past President of the Explorers Club. Included in the Lots is one of only 65 extant copies of the first book published in Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton’s Aurora Australis, 1908. This ... http://www.tonyhaile.com/2007/05/13/brother-can-you-spare-a-dime/ The last six years of my life have been so singlemindedly focused on the poles, so caught up with snow, cold and ice that I sometimes manage to forget that there is a polar opposite to this world. Recently I was lucky enough to head briefly down to Naples, Florida ... http://www.tonyhaile.com/2007/05/04/two-poles/ John was one of those people who seemed to lead a charmed life. Always the centre and light of the room at any party, he received a first from Oxford University, spoke Italian like a native and went on to become one of the leading lights of his year at ... http://www.tonyhaile.com/2007/04/23/john/