October 9, 2007, 10:32 am : nobbyblog

Tues Oct 16
The first post to the NobbyBlog™, people arriving from around the world for the board meeting and Nobby’s farewell party. More posts as the week progresses. In the meantime, create your own post to leave a message for Nobby. You can also submit links for Nobby-inspired videos from YouTube, poems, drawing, pics or even haiku. No post to the NobbyBlog™ will go un-posted.

The first three clips submitted are:

Don’t Go by 80s pop-band Yazoo, a motivational clip about how to make the most of your first day on the new job, and another 80s classic (he is 40 years old, you know) from REM: It’s the end of the world as we know it (but I feel fine).


Surprisingly, there are few pictures of Nobby on Google Images. This blog aims to change that fast. Submit photos, the more embarrassing the better. Here are links to image galleries from the WWCB meeting in Buenos Aires and Miami. You’ll need a password for each (which you should have, if you know what I mean…).

As Nobby travels down his new path, he may need some inspiration along the way. This section of NobbyBlog™ is dedicated to inspirational poems and stories that you send in to keep Nobby going when the going gets rough. Find a poem here and create a link to the site. Here are the first posts…

Don’t Quit
by: Unknown Author

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit.
Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns
As every one of us sometimes learns.
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out:
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are.
It may be near when it seems so far:
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.

You Can Be Whatever You Want To Be!
by: Donna Levine

There is inside you
All of the potential
To be whatever you want to be;
All of the energy
To do whatever you want to do.
Imagine yourself as you would like to be,
Doing what you want to do,
And each day, take one step
Towards your dream.
And though at times it may seem too
difficult to continue,
Hold on to your dream.
One morning you will awake to find
That you are the person you dreamed of,
Doing what you wanted to do,
Simply because you had the courage
To believe in your potential
And to hold on to your dream.

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