Things I've Noticed

Fortuitous Domain Naming - The Noticer and Andy Andrews

A while ago, I had bought the rights to the domain name thenoticer.com because I was considering changing the name of my blog to "The Noticer", (that would be me).  Then I decided against it temporarily, but held on to the domain name.  As good fortune would have it, motivational/inspirational writer/speaker Andy Andrews happened to decide to name his latest book The Noticer.  I had never heard of him but he is a New York Times Best-Selling Author who has also been on PBS.  The nice folks at the publishing company contacted me to see if I wanted to sell the domain, but I thought it would be best to hold onto it and leverage their referral program to help fund my web operations.

I should also mention that the company gave me a copy of every book, (signed by Andy Andrews), CD, and DVD that he has published.  That was really nice of them.  I'm almost done with The Traveler's Gift which is hard to put down due to its mix of poetic language and life lessons.

What's also interesting is that Andy Andrews has started a site called "The Noticer Project", (thenoticerproject.com), which allows people to write notes to the five most influential people in their lives. Those notes will be delivered in the regular postal mail and published on the The Noticer Project website.  If you're interested in buying some of Andy's books or multimedia materials, please click on the ad to the right to buy them.

+ Atul
(The Original Noticer)

More Support for The Need to Take Action on The Environment Now

John McConnico / AP

I had written a post a while back about why it makes sense to act on the environment now, even if we're not 100% sure how much impact mankind is having on it.  Link to my prior post  Now, there is a new book that has come out which looks at the changing environment from a business perspective.  In his new book, "The Winds of Change" (Simon & Schuster), Eugene Linden talks about how the changes are real and how they could be drastic.  He also criticizes the Bush administration.  It's written about at this MSNBC article here...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12001020/

I'm still PO'd, (but not surprised) by the report on "60 Minutes" which talks about how the annual environmental report was censored by the Bush administration so that we don't hear the things that they don't want us to hear, that global warming is accelerating.  This is according to government scientist, James Hansen who is a leading researcher on global warming and co-author of the annual report.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/17/60minutes/main1415985.shtml

Watch the video at the link above.

+ Atul