Aug 22, 2008
I recently returned from a short New York vacation, the opposite of a cottage getaway: you leave to energize and come home to unwind.And walking the streets (not like that) it seems like the best shows really are on Broadway – just not inside.For...
Aug 21, 2008
I’ve been having a few email issues lately. Mostly related to my Blackberry.Sometimes, when I forward an email, random words (and even whole sentences) get cut up, deleted and garbled (or as one email said, rbld). It’s as if I’m writing in a bizarre...
Aug 19, 2008
Have you noticed that when you save a post in Blogger and come back to it an hour, a day, or some time later, there are extra spaces between the paragraphs? (For an example of what happens, please see below.)I don’t know how much time I spend backspacing in my...
Aug 16, 2008
…was unscanable at security and the gate.But they gave me the benefit of the doubt and let me through both times.I kind of wish they hadn’t.(Posted from my BB post-flight.)
Aug 16, 2008
When people from my agency go on vacation, we try to give them an email holiday, too.We stop cc’ing them and prepare an update that they receive just before they get back with a summary of what happened, the most recent drafts of documents and so on.Of course,...
Aug 15, 2008
I arrived a bit too early and the flight before mine was full so I couldn’t get on. So, with nearly two hours to spare, an e-boarding pass on my BB (my first time and I miss the paper), I figured I’d blog.I guess something like this is probably better...
Aug 14, 2008
Our 24/7 communications world sometimes seems a lot like the Autobahn: no limits to speed. But I think we’d be a whole lot smarter if we if we took our foot off the accelerator and paid more attention to the road ahead. (Watch our for that pothole!) We could...
Aug 11, 2008
Guest blog by ANTHONY WESTENBERG, account director, Palette PRWhen I was working in Amsterdam as the global communications manager for Randstad, I had the honour to represent my company in the Public Affairs Task Group, established for sponsors of the Dutch Olympic...
Aug 1, 2008
We all have stories we tell people. And it feels like they fall into several categories:- memories- gossip- news or information- recent personal experiences or observationsWell, lately I’ve been using my recent personal experiences/observations as fodder for my...
Jul 31, 2008
I was walking home today and happened to pass a Norman Rockwell-esque family moment: a hot and hazy mid-summer evening; a young boy (around five or six) is playfully chasing his slightly older sister; her mock screams, a sound like enjoyment.What makes this scene a...
