Romain Jérôme Watches at BaselWorld 2009

I love watches.  Maybe it’s a guy’s thing and/or maybe it’s because guys don’t have much “jewellery” to bandy about.  In any event, I was struck by a couple of things in a recent article in Le Figaro (“Des montres qui...

Looking out for the Signs in Your Life

Sometimes there are wonderful messages that pop up in your life.  I am not thinking of the messages on email or Facebook, etc.  I am thinking of the random ones that you have to look out for. There I was, taking a chairlift at the Combloux ski resort and thinking...

Twitter: Global Village or Recessionista?

Twitter, it seems, is making mainstream headlines daily these days. Yesterday, the IHT featured on page 2, an article “A truth renewed online: It still takes a village,” which begins: “Twitter and Facebook are, OMG, so last millennium”. The...

A perfect date this year…

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . . . if you live in the United States (i.e. you write the date MM/DD/YY), at five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM on the 8th of July this year, the time and date will be: 04:05:06 07/08/09 It’s a beautiful thing.  This will not happen...

Twitter – Sweeping Growth as Business Tool

Twitter update – 7+ million users and growing… fast Twitter has grown by a staggering 1382% in the span of one year, to have over 7 million monthly unique visitors, according to data from market research firm Nielsen. The research suggested that Twitter...

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