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Honour your father

HOME — I’ve been wearing my dad’s tie all week.  It’s a university tie from Bishop’s University outside Montreal.  My dad was president of the University earlier this century.  He was always quietly dapper without being too flash.  [Okay, the man-bag he carried while we lived in Paris was a bit cutting edge.]

There’ve been some [...]

Google Wave and MS OneNote: Re-program my brain

LONDON — There seems to be quite a bit of excitement out there about Google Wave.  Here’s a blog I was sent to earlier today.  Look how many comments there are in a few hours.

There’s a lovely short video here too that will show you what Google Wave is all about.

To me it looks quite [...]

Influence and the credit crunch

CHELSEA — Don’t ask me about underlying influencing factors in the economy.  I’m no economist.  But I do know when I am being sold some old pile of rubbish.  And that’s what the media in the UK is pitching us now.

We seem to have reporters who are used to covering train wrecks covering the economy.  [...]

Breaking the rules to make things work

AL DUOMO, FIRENZE — I know how I feel about graffiti on historic monuments.  I don’t like it.  There is no value in defacing ancient monuments, like Lord Byron famously did at The Temple of Poseidon in Greece.

But as I stumbled, puffin down the 463 steps from the top of the cathedral in Florence this afternoon, [...]

New channels of communication delivery

When the wind of change whistles into play
will I blink or flinch away?
The wind of change wont whistle me away
if I spin my tails and sail.
And sail away, let yesterday become today.

CIRCLE LINE — I recognise that I am not the right demographic for the Brummie, bedsit, white rapper The Streets.  But I have just [...]