The Wages of Spin
THE TRANSITION FROM UNIVERSITY TO GRADUATION TO JOB-SEEKING TO ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE AND BEYOND...
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I've Moved!!
Thanks to the marvellous advise of all of you I have run away from home and joined Wordpress.The new address is:http://wagesofspin.wordpress.com/As ever I am still unpacking and other moving euphemisms, so I have to sort out the blogroll and everything, pop by for a cup of tea and admire the new vie …
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Spring cleaning the blog
I have been whinging about it long enough. Well, not out loud and not constantly, that would be embarrassing in public places, but OCCASIONALLY I have commented in a dissatisfied manner that I should sort out how this page looks. I've also been told by (I'm sure) well meaning people that this looks …
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Scrabulous shutdown
According to the BBC, Facebook have been ordered to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by Lawyers for toy makers Hasbro and Mattel, who say it infringes their copyright on the board-based word game.Now I may be over simplifying things but it seems to me that they have missed a trick here. A …
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Gizmodo at CES
Some of us didn't get to go to CES (one day, one year) but it amuses me to see that not everyone was having a great time there. Several stands suffered a series of technical problems that were entirely to do with the bad men at Gizmodo.A nightmare for the people at the affected stands, rather funny …
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Twitter or Tumblr
What's the difference and why should I care, I wonder...
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Facebook is down again...
Hot, fat, salty tears of frustration.UPDATE:Appears not to be Facebook, just my account. Frustration turning to rage, if things happens on Facebook and I am not there to see it in my mini-feed, does it really happen.Am starting to question my own existence - how did it come to this?
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Yikes
OK OK - new job, new blog. But is this it?There is going to be some wild experimentation around here - so sunglasses at the ready. Please let me know what you think and I will let you know once I have found a template that doesn't a) give me a headache, b) make it look like a blog belonging to a Twe …
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No News
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'Who do you read?'
I realise there currently is the cult of Mr B going on, and it interests me just how, given the whole blogosphere mindset, why it is that everyone settles on the same few blogs (no offence to any of them). Is it because they have the insight? Is it because they jumped on the band-wagon at the right …
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The American-isms
This was never meant to be a blog about my bug-bares. but I am continually thinking that my computer is out to upset me. I found a new mouse and now it only understands want I am trying to do about, say, 5% of the time. I wouldn't mind except it keeps on clicking on things whenever it sees it. I swe …
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Learning Web 2.0
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Five things, yaddi yadda
OK so my own rumours of a comeback were slightly exaggerated.Well no, actually, we all wanted this (I say we...) except, it seems, my PC (who has transpired against me from the start by breaking my mouse and so leading to many a frustrated argument with said PC) so with no less then three offers to …
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Return of the smartmouth kid
Well... a proper return soon, consider this the pre-emptive fanfare.Now, racists are roaming the country, preying on houses, or something like that. I mean, who can concentrate when Vista arrived today.Now I have yet to pass judgement on the actual application, but lets be utterly shallow and focus …
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Bond-o-rama
Oh come on, you try thinking of a Bond style title that isn't going to have people thinking a) you're an idiot or b)... erm well, that you're an idiot.The Bond film has been everywhere this week, which is good. Bond and Christmas go together very weel. They are always shown in the UK at Christmas ti …
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Happy Bonfire Night!
Remember remember the fifth of November,Gunpowder, treason and plot.I see no reason why gunpowder, treason,Should ever be forgot.(For those who live outside the UK, all is explained here.)
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Bad blogger, bad!
OK so after a couple of emails that verbally smacked me on the nose with a rolled up newspaper and said 'bad blogger, bad', I have decided to return once again. These days I seem to be constantly disappearing and then returning with a (small) flurry of activity and then disappearing again. For this …
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Back pain rocks!
I love this story:The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has created a Virtual rock band called Bäackpain to promote wider public awareness of back pain. The band has done well on MySpace and is getting mixed reactions from the press and media so far.And as VNUnet.com says: To add authenticity to the …
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So who reads?
Richard Bailey recently asked this, and yesterday the Observer asked 150 literary luminaries to vote for the best British, Irish or Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005 and tomorrow is the Booker Prize. It seems you can't turn today without some very credible source telling you you must be reading.A …
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Second Life
Months after first hearing about it and commenting that this was probably the future of the whole MySpace/blogging phenomenon, I have finally joined Second Life.I am of course rather coy about the fact that I am coming to the party a bit late. But the reason I write is that as soon as I join Second …
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The youth... wasted?
They say that the youth is wasted on the young. This implies that, should the more mature generations had their time again then they would spend it more wisely.But what is wisely spent youth? And why are the older generations trying to hi-jack it and ruin it for all of us?I use 'us' very flippantly …
The Wages of Spin
