Category Archives: Firms

4 published posts in this category.

Wanted: an executive email service with stamps.

Are you dismayed at getting 100 emails a day you need to wade through, disturbing your concentration? Does your administration bother you constantly with things you just ‘have to be aware of’? Are you tired of the ‘executive reports’, ‘award notices’, 'compulsory breathing tra...

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Posted in Uncategorized, Society, IT and Internet, Web and Government 2.0, Firms, Innovation, Employment

Testament of youth: Breaking free of the boilerplate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqoXrjQQ9x8 There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives — wher...

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Posted in Films and TV, Firms, Ethics, Cultural Critique

Greek Film Festival @Palace Cinema Como: Top Picks

Top Picks Little England In the Greek island of Andros during World War II, the lives of its women are dominated by long periods of isolation brought on by the seafaring nature of the island’s economy. Two sisters-the quiet and reticent Orsa and the extroverted Moshca-become e...

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Love, hate and my iPhone

I first learned how to work a computer on an Apple Mac. Marvellous things they were - I've still got my old Apple Mac 128K in my garage. I didn't want to learn on a DOS machine. It looked like the effort might be considerable and for the limited reward of rather clunky word pr...

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Posted in IT and Internet, Economics and public policy, Products, Firms