TEDx Ottawa: A Resounding S.U.C.C.E.S.s!!

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Adrian Bashford

TED conferences are mind-blowing, but expensive and far away.  Sp when I heard about the TEDx concept (locally organized TED events) I was excited to hear that an event was being organized in Ottawa!  But how was a local event going to compare to TED conferences which regularly attract the worlds top thinkers? The same [...]

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The Works of Ayn Rand

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Adrian Bashford

I recently signed up to a new Audible.com gold account which allowed me to buy expensive audiobooks cheaply, which justified me picking up the two massively tomes ‘Fountainhead’ and ‘Atlas Shrugged’ by Ayn Rand. The two books, which I bought unabridged, totalled 80 hours of reading time which has kept me busy for the last [...]

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Book Review: “God is Not Great” by Christopher Hitchens

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Adrian Bashford

The only way I can get through books anymore is to buy audiobooks which I can listen to on my iPhone when I am driving around or on the treadmill. One of my more recent purchases was “God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything” by Christopher Hitchens. My first impression of the book was [...]

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