Research is all well and good, but I definitely enjoy writing the most. I will happily sit at my computer and work on a single paragraph for hours. And there's no better feeling than when your writing is going well.

I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.

These days I'm probably happiest when I see my two daughters loving one another.

I discovered Twitter, as I remember, and the idea of watching a global conversation go by immediately struck me as a fantastic thing. So I suppose it's not TwitterVision per se that excited me, but Twitter itself and its implications.

If you neglect your blogs they don't take up much time.

Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.

I'm always impressed that as we go through life most of the stuff we do doesn't matter that much, at least not ostensibly: you go to the grocery store, you work, you go to school. If any of that were omitted, most days, it wouldn't matter much.