Minter Dial

Thriller Dance at Cebu Prison on the Road?

by Minter Dial | Jan 18, 2008 | Entertainment

The now celebrated Cebu Prison (Philippines) Thriller Dance video, first uploaded on YouTube just last July, has now been viewed nearly 11 million times. Wow. According to a January 15 Herald Tribune article, the beat goes on (thanks for the heads up Peter)! Some...

Who Links to Me?

by Minter Dial | Jan 17, 2008 | Social Media

Who loves you or who links into you? This post is not for those who like links on greens, nor cuff links! It is for other bloggers or owners of websites... This post is to let you know how to find out how many other sites are linking back to your web site/blog? This...

Stephane Tourné at Célal Galerie, Paris

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...

Blogger Trackback for Firefox’s Grease Monkey

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...

China steps up efforts on Ecology

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 (effective June 1...

Springboks’ De Villiers as Coach

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...

Norway quota for women on corporate boards

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, in 2005, the government...

Ha Pi Ho Li Daze 2008

by Minter Dial | Jan 2, 2008 | Social Media

I admit that [my] using the email to send out holiday greetings still seems a little tacky (even if I tried to spruce it up). I would love to hide behind the ecological zeitgeist, but facility, timing and economics are all part of the "excuse." Meanwhile, I was quite...

Happy No Smoking & New Year

by Minter Dial | Jan 1, 2008 | Health

Glad to usher in a new year and, with it, the beginning of smoke-free hotels, bars and restaurants in Paris. But, as this BBC article explains, Paris is not the only place to take on new year resolutions. Eight German states, including Berlin and heavy drinking...

Skiing Principles for Life

by Minter Dial | Dec 29, 2007 | Sports

I was fortunate enough to have learned how to ski very young. In fact, my first real season of ski was spent in 1972 here at Gstaad (Switzerland) where I have joined my father for this Christmas. With skis that bespeak my age of yore (2.03M Salomon tapered skis that...

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