I cycled 1000 miles in 13 days and arrived delirious at my destination on 11th September 2001. I thought the scenes on the public TVs in the hotel were from a Hollywood movie, so I was doubly delirious to learn it was real planes going into real buildings..

Diehard was the first video I ever watched twice. I had no taste back then. FWIW I think Tears of the Sun is Bruce Willis best ever movie.

If you ever need a stock picker, don't ask me. I invariably make money on my own stock choices, but am a disaster when advising someone else. If you are interested, I have shares in Synaptics, EMC and eBay, great companies, but they all owe me money right now. Hey, shit happens but they are going to pay off one day, I just don't know which day.

I have suffered from asthma since I was 2. No modern medication has ever cured it, and one arrogant doctor said he would eat his hat if he couldn't cure me. I presume he ate his hat, because I still wheeze like a bellows. Only homeopathic treatments have killed asthma stone dead, but they are sooo expensive.

I don't like spending money frivolously. My dad is a Scotsman, but as a big spending bookworm, he clearly is not the source of my tightness in the wallet area.

Until I bought the Mac I am typing on now 5 years ago, I never knew a thing worth diddly about computers. And to all the naysayers, that ridiculous sum of money I spent on this Powerbook was an investment!

I have been traveling for 20 years. Due to work and itchy feet, (more the latter!) I haven't really had a home sweet home for years. If Nepal or Sudan weren't so unstable now, I would recommend that everyone send their kid there for a few months to learn what real life is all about.

I had a serious bang on the head in a car accident. It didn't knock me out but it made me ambidextrous and very appreciative of the need to live life without unnecessary stress.

And that is it. Ed in a nutshell.