Month: June 2006
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That customer service sinking feeling
My wife and I are driving over to the UK next month, so I went online to the P&O Ferries website this afternoon to make a booking for the trip across the English Channel from Calais to Dover. I’ve used…
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Copyright your Office docs with Creative Commons
Here’s a very useful new feature from Microsoft and Creative Commons, announced yesterday – the ability to embed a Creative Commons copyright license directly in your Word, PowerPoint or Excel file. This is something I’ve been doing for a while, especially…
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Tech-challenged Europeans who don’t read blogs
Reuters reports on a survey that says about 37% of people living in the 25 European Union countries have no computer skills, with Scandinavians being the most computer-literate and Greeks the least. The survey results – “How skilled are Europeans…
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The comedy podcast from Number Ten
Just been listening to comedian Eddie Izzard’s European podcast, an account of his two-day visit to Brussels last week in the company of Prime Minister Tony Blair for a meeting of the European Council. Izzard’s concluding remark is that he hopes…
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Get what you want with RSS
Steve Rubel delivers the goods with an excellent round-up of 35 ways you can use RSS today. I’ve learned from Steve’s list. Track new software releases, for instance. Hadn’t thought about that one. And key phrases and themes showing up…