Monthly Archives: April 2008

Fireside Chat: Google and Tim Ferriss

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/04/25/fireside-chat-google-and-tim-ferriss/

This fireside chat at Google in London covered tons of topics never discussed on the blog before: proposed improvements to Gmail (please!), the real original book title, using telephone vs. e-mail, principles and case studies, metrics (including exercise), analysis vs. intuition, the declining dollar and personal outsourcing & geoarbitrage, & more

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Derbyshire | Bystander saves canal crash baby

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/derbyshire/7364293.stm

Pat Baker, 54, has rescued a 13-month-old baby from a canal after her mother’s car collided with another vehicle. He dived into the water to save the child after the mother said her daughter was trapped in the car near Barrow-on-Trent, Derbyshire.

Mr Baker, a Rolls-Royce maintenance engineer from Stenson Fields, Derby, swam underwater and managed to open the car door at the second attempt.

“I finally got the door open and got inside where it was absolutely black as it was submerged in water. I located the leg of the child but it didn’t want to come as it was in a baby seat,” he said.

“I undid the clamp and the child came out – but I didn’t think she was alive.”