New career possibility for me
Posted on September 19th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
Well, I’m not good with numbers, but I can learn.
Hat tip: Dylan Thwaites.
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The forces of conservatism
Posted on September 19th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
Excellent post from Alex Singleton of the GI:
The real forces of conservatism today are organizations like the World Development Movement, War on Want and Christian Aid. They favour managed trade, wanting to preserve the past. Christian Aid took a major hit to its credibility after it came out in support of textiles quotas - […]
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Reasons to be happy
Posted on September 18th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
1. My aggregator is empty. This is almost unheard of.
2. Tim Newman has a new blog, inspired by me. I rule! (Play along, please.)
3. This. Specifically, the comment about how dumb HBO is for not realising that ancient Romans spoke Italian. Heeeeee!
4. Luke Ford arrived in London today. I may not have time to see […]
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The NDP’s not-so-strange bedfellows
Posted on September 18th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
How unsurprising to learn that the “progressives” of Canada’s lunatic fringe New Democratic Party are big fans of George Galloway. Sure, Galloway is fiercely pro-life, supports those who would have gays and rape victims stoned to death, and unashamedly supports the “resistance” in Iraq, but the likes of the NDP don’t let these minor details […]
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The real meaning of ‘equality’, and why most feminists are anything but ‘pro-choice’
Posted on September 18th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
Bearing in mind what I wrote yesterday, here’s India Knight (someone I know personally, and for whom I have in the past had lots of nice things to say) in today’s Sunday Times, writing about how women supposedly now die earlier than men because we all binge drink, smoke like chimneys, and work our tails […]
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Truest thing I read all week
Posted on September 17th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
From Dr Phil McGraw (I know), writing in the new issue of O (again, I know - hush!):
You wouldn’t worry so much about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they do.
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Yet another reason to embrace free market capitalism
Posted on September 17th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
I don’t know about you, but I think it’s a good thing that so many electronic items are now available so cheaply that they are not worth stealing. As one commenter here notes, “China did not take over Hong Kong. Hong Kong took over China.”
And as someone else there notes, the industry in which I […]
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That spirit, that intellect, those writing chops
Posted on September 17th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
This post is pure, concentrated Nancy Rommelmann. I miss her.
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Truman Capote and the rewards of the mundane and unexpected
Posted on September 17th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
I go to the cinema about once every two years. But I will be first in line for Capote, that’s for sure. It has going for it: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener (as Harper Lee!), being about one of my favourite writers, dealing with his writing of one of my favourite books, and - by […]
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AT&T customer service = comedy gold
Posted on September 15th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
Amy Alkon called AT&T customer service (not to sing their praises, believe it or not) and heard this recorded message:
We are experiencing a slight delay due to positive response to ATT products and services.
Two words (no, not those two words): Yeah, right.
If you want to talk to a human being when you call those annoying […]
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Just so you know: I know
Posted on September 13th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
It has been pointed out to me that the dates on this blog are “the wrong way ’round”. Despite my calls for multi-cultural sensitivity, it seems that some people think that only their society’s way of doing things is the right way.
Just kidding (kinda). I’ll sort out the dates at some point, but it’s […]
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Worst. Blog. Ever.
Posted on September 12th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
If you think your company doesn’t need a blog expert to show you how to approach blogging, you may end up with something like this monstrosity. Could Juicy Fruit have got it more wrong? I can’t see how.
The kicker is that, because they’ll get tons of traffic from people linking to and blasting the non-blog, […]
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New look Guardian - blogged
Posted on September 11th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
It really does look fab (despite having Shane Warne - whom Antoine refers to as “The Chucker” - on the cover), and I love how they’ve been live blogging the launch, complete with great newsroom photography.
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Oil prices and nonsense
Posted on September 11th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
Wish I’d seen this rubbish, from what sounds like a Daily Kos reader, get demolished on live TV:
One guy claimed that the price of oil - currently about 70 dollars a barrel - was grossly inflated by those evil speculators and the “real” price of oil was more like 40 dollars.
Okaaay, said one of the […]
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