George Bush needs all the help he can muster to get into the good books of the British people. They are generally unimpressed by the Texan's bellicosity, religiosity and chauvinism. I am happy to be of assistance to the President by publicising the little-known fact that during his days at...
What with monkey chants directed at black English football players in Madrid, a poll proclaiming the late Pim Fortuyn as the most revered Dutchman and a survey convicting 64 per cent of Britons of some kind of bigotry, it has been an exceptionally bad week for race relations. Outrage has...
Capitol Hill has been home to many peculiar goings-on - but there can't have been many times it turned itself into an X-rated movie house for the most powerful politicians in the land. The plan was for only the Senate whose Armed Services Committee had been grilling Don Rumsfeld to...
A double honour for the storm-tossed Amy Winehouse this week. First, a wax model of the singer was put on display at Madame Tussauds, in response to thousands of requests from the public. Her parents posed with the (amazingly lifelike, for once) waxwork, which stood 6ft high - 9ins of...
I've had the Ikea experience. I've been there. I've been through their checkout and noted its resemblance to Hades - the crepuscular gloom, the dungeon lighting, the mile-long shuffling queue, the glum, sickly faces, the trolleys piled high with flat-pack cardboard units. It was horrible. But among the reports from...
A play about the late Robert Maxwell, Lies Have Been Told, opened at the New End Theatre in Hampstead this week. It's produced by a former son-in-law of the old rogue, Dale Djerassi, who was married to Maxwell's daughter Isabel. Djerassi has an unusually rosy memory of the man who...
An Easier Way to Compare Multiple Documentsbut you lose all your formatting...It's worth noting that CodeJacked's linked article does say that you have to convert the files to ASCII text and hence lose all your formatting...And for a business doc losing all the formatting, tables, images etc isn't really an...
Today's Special: Roasted Food Critic, Drizzled With Bile. Appearing at the Cheltenham Festival, metrosexual flneur and restaurant critic AA Gill, who denounced Gloucestershire and, in particular, Stow-on-the-Wold. "Worse than a Sudanese refugee camp," announced the immaculately tailored foodie; "purse-lipped tedium"; "pubs like outpatients". The mayor of Stow threatened Gill with...
Those of us who last year had the pleasure of watching Ralph Fiennes playing the title role in Brand - Ibsen's hilarious comedy of manners about the life and loves of a roly-poly Norwegian pastor ... oh all right, Ibsen's suicidally depressing tragedy about an emotionally repressed, gaunt Norwegian pastor...
The grisly news from Ipswich gave the Aberdeen crime novelist Stuart MacBride a sense of deja vu. His cop thriller Dying Light, published this year, features a killer whose victims are prostitutes, all picked up in the city's red-light district, stripped and dumped on open ground. Spooky. But as Mac-Bride...
The 2006 London Book Fair started yesterday, and ran slap bang into trouble. A super-heavyweight group of writers, including two Nobel laureates (Nadine Gordimer, J M Coetzee), the playwright Mike Leigh, the critic John Carey and no fewer than six Booker Prize- winners, has written to The Times Literary Supplement...
The alternative Nobel prizes - the "Ig Nobel" prizes, an annual set of awards for ludicrous investigations, produced by a science humour magazine called Annals of Improbable Research - were announced in Harvard University's library this week. The language prize went to Barcelona university for proving that rats cannot tell...
BNET Podcast: Introducing the Useful CommuteiTunes?great concept, can i get this on iTunes? sorry if this question has an obvious answer.RichRE: iTunes?You can use iTunes using the more button right below the podcast component. You can also download it using the same button. BTW, I think it was a valid...
Business Hacks Poll: Have You Tried Outsourcing?Our man in India is really Get FridayI work in outsourcing and truly believe it is a two way street if you want success. That said, it didn't really work for me - but i'm open to trying another time/provider. BTW...
"We've reviewed your sales figures and they're not up to the level we need. As a result we will not require your services any more. Thank you for your time with us." With this bland text message, manager Alex Bartlett of the Blue Banana body piercing parlor in Cardiff, Wales,...
Turn Your Blockbuster Card into a Hotel KeyGreat!Killer idea, thanks!Turn the lights outGood one! But don't forget to turn off the lights and the tv.www.atrendia.comit's just a switchAll these devices are are microswitches at the bottom of the "reader". So anything you can stuff into the reader that is...
Referrals as a Sales StrategyRE: Referrals as a Sales StrategyI'd love to hear your thoughts on whether LinkedIn can help you sell through referrals. When I get asked about LinkedIn as a sales tool, I've been recommending it for presale research. e.g. find out who knows who, new hires and...
Finding the Pressure PointDon't annoy your readers!Hey, is it suddenly 1990 or something? Where is the .pdf option on your web page?If you are trying to market to business people - busy people who might not (or don't) have time to read web page after web page - give...
Garth's World offers some tips on making it through the summer sales drought. Plan ahead and be ahead of targets already. (That last bit's a joke, btw.) Pipeline development. Which companies should you be doing business with? Go beyond your usual prospects. Farm your...
The Power of the Humble ChecklistIt happens to all of usWe are working on checklists for all of our common duties. I am a marketer. Press release checklist. Mass email checklist. Adwords campaign checklist. One I need to do is "blog post" checklist. I...
