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Holidays Visit to Marrakesh Morocco Part 1 of 3

by Minter Dial | Apr 18, 2009 | Sports, Travel

For our six-day visit to Marrakesh (or Marrakech if you prefer) en famille, we stayed at the not-even-opened Beldi Country Club Hotel (+212 (0)624-38-3950), on the route to Amizmiz, in Chérifia just 6 kilometres outside of Marrakesh. Founded by Jean-Dominique...

Mosquitoes – At last, a possible eradication plan?

by Minter Dial | Apr 17, 2009 | Entertainment

For those of you following this blog, you may know that among my interests is Astrophysics, with a focus on the String Theory, smoothly vulgarized in Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe." (Here is Greene's Faculty page at Columbia; and PBS NOVA provides excerpts of...

You can be a Fantoo – sports viewed by serious women fans

by Minter Dial | Apr 15, 2009 | Podcast, Sports

Women are sports fans... too! That's the notion behind Fantoo, featuring a blog and downloadable podcast (mp3 via iTunes here). A far cry from the Italian women "sports journalists" that are sported on television programs ("il calcio") in Italy, Fantoo is for serious...

Wolfram Alpha Search Engine to be launched May 2009

by Minter Dial | Apr 5, 2009 | New Tech

To read the author's pre-released blog post (written March 5, 2009), Wolfram Alpha, the new search engine due out in May 2009, is a kind of combination of the Theory of Everything meets Einstein's Google. The author, Stephen Wolfram, is the father of two other...

Google to buy Twitter?

by Minter Dial | Apr 5, 2009 | Social Media

The rumour mill has it that Google is back at the negotiating table to buy Twitter. The twipping point has tipped the scales in Twitter's favour. According to this IT PRO article (April 3) or the TechCrunch article (April 2), the deal is close. If the price is over...

Change Management – Cutting Dollars & Making Sense in Recession

by Minter Dial | Apr 5, 2009 | Marketing

In these times of recession, a change is certainly gonna come... For the companies feeling the hit (not referring to Sam Cooke), there is plenty of talk of cutting budgets and payroll (though much less of the latter in France). In such environments, one speaks of...

Universal Music — A Musical Journey Around the World

by Minter Dial | Apr 4, 2009 | Marketing

For this post, I would like to take you on a kind of virtual journey. Specifically, I will share a series of videos that show the world connecting through music, proof that music has a special universality. Take the trip, I think you will enjoy the ride. In the best...

Walmart listening to its customers

by Minter Dial | Apr 2, 2009 | Business, Marketing

THE MOST IMPORTANT DIGITAL LESSON I'VE LEARNED... I have picked this pearl of wisdom to share with you today: You can't control what people say about you on the web, but you can be a good listener. This is from Walmart: Walmart has been getting into the act it would...

Romain Jérôme Watches at BaselWorld 2009

by Minter Dial | Mar 31, 2009 | Marketing

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 racontent des histoires" or "Watches that tell a...

Looking out for the Signs in Your Life

by Minter Dial | Mar 31, 2009 | Leadership

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...

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