by Minter Dial | May 19, 2009 | Travel
We spent last weekend in sunny, windy, & rainy Dorset, around the wedding of my dear old friend, Tom. Using our Tom-Tom to find Tom was something of a leitmotif for the weekend as we drove around endless country roads hidden from cows’ views by huge parallel...
by Minter Dial | May 13, 2009 | Sports
This year, three of the four NHL Conference semi-final matchups are going to the seventh and deciding game, with the other (Chicago Blackhawks over Vancouver Canucks 4-2) going six. All the teams are matched up as evenly as even can be. Other than San Jose’s...
by Minter Dial | May 12, 2009 | Business, Marketing
The Economist ran a special report (March 14, 2009) on Entrepreneurialism and there were several interesting and important points that I felt like writing about. The 16-page report discusses the state of entrepreneurship around the world. In some regards, the report...
by Minter Dial | May 9, 2009 | Social Media
2,009 versus 2009 When you need to write two thousand and nine, as in “five thousand years ago, two thousand and nine people participated in the world’s first game of Twister” (they didn’t), you might also write it as “5,000 years ago,...
by Minter Dial | May 8, 2009 | Marketing
So, even if I think I have a wide range of musical tastes, I am clearly not fully up to date. I have come finally “got” the phenomenon of Human Beatboxing. And there I was, thinking that this was some violent sport. If you have not seen...