by Minter Dial | Jan 16, 2008 | Entertainment
Heard of Stephane Tourné? If you are in Paris and want to see a great photography exhibit in the centre of town, go visit Galerie Celal, located at 45 rue St Honore, 75001 Paris (M° Chatelet). The Galerie is exhibiting from January 17 to 27 the work of Stephane...
by Minter Dial | Jan 13, 2008 | Social Media
Attention all neophyte Bloggers using the Mozilla Firefox browser! I have made significant strides in augmenting my Blogger site thanks to GreaseMonkey with widgets, gadgets and more, including the easy-to-use Trackback mechanism courtesy of Singpolyma. The beauty of...
by Minter Dial | Jan 13, 2008 | Marketing
China bans free bags! In a second post (“Getting rid of Plastic Bags” May 2007) on the topic, I read in the Herald Tribune with a mixture of satisfaction and curiosity about China’s intended policy to ban the giving out of free plastic bags in shops...
by Minter Dial | Jan 11, 2008 | Politics, Sports
Another move for equality Peter de Villiers has been named as the first black coach of the rugby union world champions South African Springboks. Coming on the heels of the World Cup victory (in October 2007), this is quite a move. And, after just having posted about...
by Minter Dial | Jan 5, 2008 | Business, Politics
A bold decision I read with interest about Norway’s legislated quota for women’s presence on publicly traded private limited liability (“ASA”) corporate boards. The improvements in equality on boards in Norway were not coming fast enough*, so,...