Posted on September 24th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
This is unf’nbelievable:
POLICE have agreed to consult a panel of Muslim leaders before mounting counter-terrorist raids or arrests. Members of the panel will offer their assessment of whether information police have on a suspect is too flimsy and will also consider the consequences on community relations of a raid.
Take it, Mr de Havilland:
So tell me, […]
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Posted on September 24th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
I hope Jamie Oliver read this in today’s papers - and all the people who have told me they think he’s a “hero” for trying to legislate kids into healthier diets. When it comes to food, I line up behind Nigella:
Dieting claims almost a moral status when health comes into play. With what piety and […]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Dave Winer:
To think that today’s iPod isn’t the leader in the market is to be in denial.
Actually, it’s to have access to the facts and actual data; the iPod is by far not the market-leader in portable mp3-playing devices. Their global market share is under 19%. Tomi Ahonen, mobile expert and member of my […]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
[I am working. Antoine is wielding the TV remote. Mont Blanc appears on the TV.]
ME [glancing up]: Hey, is that Mont Blanc?
ANTOINE: Yep.
ME: Is that the one [our friend] Patrick just climbed?
ANTOINE: Yep.
ME: Wow, I didn’t picture it as all snowy like that.
ANTOINE: Why do you think it’s called Mont Blanc?
ME: Oh, yeah…
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Posted on September 22nd, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Man, I cannot thank Robyn enough for transcribing this Merrill Markoe article on narcissists. I can think of a few people I know who fit this bill, but one individual is proving particularly draining at the moment. Sound like anyone you know?
Narcissists are people who cover up feelings of shame and worthlessness inflicted during their […]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
For reasons I should not need to explain to my clever readers, very few people want to give their money to political parties in this country. Now Labour is pushing to steal more of what will not be given freely, solely to line their party coffers, claiming that they deserve it. Why? Because! “Because!” (or, […]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Dave Winer and Robert Scoble, to name just two notables, have been blogging recently about how there is a lot of money to be made for companies who are willing to listen to what their blogging customers have to say. The way companies tend to work now with bloggers is that, if you’ve got a […]
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Posted on September 21st, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Don’t expect to hear me say THAT ever again. (Rep Charles Rangel is cool for the day, too.)
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Posted on September 21st, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
My homeboy Ben Casnocha has some interesting notes from New York Times columnist David Brooks’ talk in San Francisco last night. One of Brooks’ points - that if the US pulls out of Iraq early, the first people to be murdered will be those who supported democracy and freedom - is one I always think […]
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Posted on September 21st, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Yale School of Management seems to have found its thinking cap:
Effective leaders need to be able to own and frame problems and take real responsibility for solving those problems, and then work across organizational boundaries in order to solve those problems. The curriculum in the past was broken down by these disciplinary silos and because […]
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Posted on September 21st, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Blogging via email, yes, but still: This is freakin’ awesome.
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Posted on September 20th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Antoine had his jabs for Egypt yesterday, at the Royal Free Hospital, as his good-for-nothing doctor’s office claimed they couldn’t get him an appointment until October 2nd. (They charged him £100 for the two injections, just in case you’re wondering how socialised ‘free’ healthcare works: You pay for it once, and then you pay for […]
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Posted on September 20th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Maybe on the Internet you need to be a buyer for your customer, not a seller.
-Peter Drucker
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Posted on September 20th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Oliver Kamm has a succinct column in today’s Times about why John Pilger should not be celebrated, admired, respected, or trusted. Kamm goes into much more detail in this blog post. Both are worth reading.
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