A Reuter’s report of yesterday:
Feel like a cup of tea, but don’t have the time to brew one up? Pop a “tea pill” instead.
Why would I do that? Isn’t the whole point about tea that you actually take the time to make it then blow and sip it slowly, sit back and relax [...]
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The World Economic forum has just published its Global Information Technology Report 2004-2005 which assesses “the state of the networked readiness of 104 economies”. Top of the charts is Singapore, where half the population is selling duty-free hi-tech stuff to the other half, and Iceland, where all six people know how to use a computer [...]
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It’s 10:30 and I’m going to bed already. I’ve got laryngitis and have been whispering all day. Everyone thinks it’s hilarious. Before our editorial meeting this morning, I scribbled on 2 pieces of paper with a pink day-glo marker. The first said
I’ve lost my voice
and the second said,
Stop laughing!
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>>>>>T minus 30
I hadn’t planned it this way, it’s just that I had a sushi craving and then I started smearing on the wasabi and it came to me - a pre-emptive attack! If I’ve got to suffer jaw ache trying to hold my mouth open wider than it was ever intended, listen to that [...]
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When my Scottish grandparents used to talk about their friends’ offspring, they would say things like, “Aye, ye remember Sandy McDuffus’ lassie, Moira, aye, she got a good job at the post office, y’know.”
A good job at the post office. For my grandparents, who grew up in Glasgow between the wars, any job in an [...]
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