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>Tunes for a Tuesday – 18 November 2008

Posted on 18 November, 2008 by jb

> ZZ Top – (Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree from ZZ Top’s First AlbumThe Rolling Stones – Angie from Forty Licks Cheap Trick – Can’t Stop Fallin’ Into Love from Greatest HitsShe and Him (ft. Zooey Deschanel & M. … Continue reading →

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>And he reckons he’s overworked……

Posted on 18 November, 2008 by jb

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>Only in Nelson

Posted on 17 November, 2008 by jb

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>Now, this is more like it….

Posted on 13 November, 2008 by jb

> The BBC reports on the back-scatter x-ray technology that some  airports are currently triallin. Pretty much makes you naked to the eye of the perving security staff beholder. I think this is much better, though….

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>Four down……

Posted on 13 November, 2008 by jb

> ……four to go. This is John Kotter’s 8 Point plan for change management that he first published in the Harvard Business Review and then in his 1995 book “Managing Change”  Step One: Create Urgency Step Two: Form a Powerful … Continue reading →

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>It must be me…#4

Posted on 12 November, 2008 by jb

> I really enjoy the States, especially the North East, north of Boston. Long coastline, nice people, enough history to make it cultured. Portsmouth’s got the Seacoast Theatre with a good show that kicks off at 7:30pm. So I pop … Continue reading →

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>Left hand, right hand

Posted on 11 November, 2008 by jb

> Popped in to see the orthopaedic chappie the other day to make sure that Leg 2.0 isn’t in danger of falling off. Routine stuff. Waggles the leg around to make sure there are no suspicious noises and then sends … Continue reading →

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>Tunes for a Tuesday – 11 November 2008

Posted on 11 November, 2008 by jb

> Chicago – 25 or 6 to 4 from Billboard Top 100 Hits Of 1970Pattern Is Movement – Bird from All TogetherGreen Day – Emenius Sleepus from DookieLindisfarne – Fog On The Tyne from Fog On The TyneJosh White – … Continue reading →

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>Summing things up nicely

Posted on 9 November, 2008 by jb

> BA038 lost power on both engines shortly before landing at LHR in January.. The usual second guessing of the crew’s actions immediately ensued. This is what someone wrote on Pprune, the forum for peole who fly (or are flown) … Continue reading →

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>True Stories – Bush and Koizumi

Posted on 8 November, 2008 by jb

> “Well, dear boy those things did happen at various times, in different places, but mainly not to me” Basil Boothroyd “Tell me, Junichiro” asked George W. “When do you have elections in Japan?” “Everly morning, before bleakfast” says Koizumi

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