Ralvin's posterous http://ralvin.posterous.com Most recent posts at Ralvin's posterous posterous.com Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:41:00 -0800 Looking at how you should give back with Stevie Wonder http://ralvin.posterous.com/looking-at-how-you-should-give-back-with-stev http://ralvin.posterous.com/looking-at-how-you-should-give-back-with-stev

I was lucky enough to take part in Dreamforce, the annual conference for the computer company Salesforce this year.

Like every year they have a main keynote speaker related to their Foundation, which is a 1-1-1 model, and the basis and kernel of the Capital Business Media Foundation .

This year the speaker was the Former President Bill Clinton, but he was delayed, and so Stevie Wonder spent half an hour talking about his life and it was so amazing that i thought i'd share it. 

Stevie Wonder starts at 7.30.

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Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:52:00 -0800 Nice friendly banter & the year does end in one you know... http://ralvin.posterous.com/nice-friendly-banter-the-year-does-end-in-one http://ralvin.posterous.com/nice-friendly-banter-the-year-does-end-in-one

So the north London derby brought a Spurs win over those Woolwich wanders.  It is a game which brings with it bragging rights, but friendly banter. It also starts to signal a change as Spurs really are starting to return to the 'top four' of the football league.

It is a place that we have not been in for many decades, when under the management of Bill Nicholson and before the domination of european football in the 80's of Liverpool and 90's of Manchester UTD.

The victory, and the sense by Spurs fans that Arsenal are starting to go off the boil, which given that they haven't actually won anything for the past decade or so, brought with it lots of banter.

Lord Sugar tweeted that he let Piers Morgan (a big Arsenal fan) know the score, to which the response was "Tell your twitter mates that one battle doesn't win a war. We're still above you and always will be "

This was followed up with Piers offering a £1000 bet on who would finish above the other in the Premier League, which Lord Sugar accepted.

I also accepted a similar bet, although not for a £1000! Stephen Beynon and I will be having dinner in London and depending on whose team finishes above the other will depend on who gets the bill following this tweet: "@ bet you a dinner at the London restaurant of the winner's choice that Arsenal finish above Spurs?"

I think that it will be tight, they might be above us this season, but this season is 2010-2011 i.e. the year ends in a '1' cue Chas & Dave to play us out...

 

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