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My blog’s being hit by lots of comment spam (over 13,000 since launch) and I’ve received multiple warnings that the bandwidth limit is being reached, which means that you may not be able t …
I was invited to the launch of the new HP Pavilion dv2 Series Entertainment Notebook PC at Supperclub. Make that two notebooks actually, one in black and one in white. Which do you prefer? White. Black. Backlit keyboard. Separate Blu-Ray...
I was invited to the launch of the new HP Pavilion dv2 Series Entertainment Notebook PC at Supperclub. Make that two notebooks actually, one in black and one in white. Which do you prefer? White. Black. Backlit keyboard. Separate Blu-Ray...
The ‘meet the friends’ sessions have begun. Last week R and I attended the wedding of one of my Bristol law classmates and he got to meet a lot of people I was fairly close to. Last evenin …
The ‘meet the friends’ sessions have begun. Last week R and I attended the wedding of one of my Bristol law classmates and he got to meet a lot of people I was fairly close to. Last evenin …
After hearing about another misquoting incident in the local media I thought I should share a similar incident which also happened recently, to a classmate of mine. A few weeks ago I reported that one of my classmates made it...
After hearing about another misquoting incident in the local media I thought I should share a similar incident which also happened recently, to a classmate of mine. A few weeks ago I reported that one of my classmates made it...
The INSEAD CV Book is starting to reap results for me. I got a call this morning from a headhunter who referred to my CV in the INSEAD CV Book. She cited my extensive digital media experience (8 years) and...
In the last couple of minutes, I’ve come up with a new, quick game. Step 1: Go here: http://www.prchecker.info/checkpagerank.php Step 2: Type in the URL of your own blog to find out its la …
In the last couple of minutes, I’ve come up with a new, quick game. Step 1: Go here: http://www.prchecker.info/checkpagerank.php Step 2: Type in the URL of your own blog to find out its la …
At the rate things are going, I have to rename my blog as it is surely no longer ‘daily’. Even ‘weekly’ would be good. Anyway I tend to be Twittering and Plurking and updating Facebook muc …
In the middle of class today (yes, I had full day class on a Sunday), I took out my MacBook Pro. Soon after that, a Taiwanese classmate sitting at my table extended her hand and shook mine, enthusiastically. She thanked...
A short list on what I’ve been up to, of late. Reducing clutter: Unsubscribing from some mailing lists that send emails I’ve lost interest in reading Filtering other emails and archiving t …
Apple has restored fairness to a system that I felt was being abused. The App Store, which allows users to browse and download Apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, no longer accepts ratings …
The time has come for my patient, long-standing readers, who know me fairly well, to come up with an interesting job title and a tangible, realistic description of what I’d be doing. If yo …
The time has come for my patient, long-standing readers, who know me fairly well, to come up with an interesting job title and a tangible, realistic description of what I’d be doing. If yo …
A couple weeks ago in church, we were told that a Canadian missionary was coming to preach at the 6pm service at a certain date on ‘The Worthy Woman of Business’. I perked up. That might g …
A couple weeks ago in church, we were told that a Canadian missionary was coming to preach at the 6pm service at a certain date on ‘The Worthy Woman of Business’. I perked up. That might g …
I was about to hit the sack but was jolted by the news that Chelsea just sacked Scolari. There are numerous academic journals that discuss the efficacy of sacking football managers on the basis of improving performance. Some look for...
I was about to hit the sack but was jolted by the news that Chelsea just sacked Scolari. There are numerous academic journals that discuss the efficacy of sacking football managers on the basis of improving performance. Some look for...



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