Five decades of warm welcomes – Royal Gazette
Five decades of warm welcomesRoyal GazetteThe duties and responsibilities of my job today keep me active with a lot of walking about the property and lifting luggage. I am always on the … I remember myself, one bellman and a concierge [went to The Mark], a higher end hotel in New York. In …
Microsoft’s puzzling “Surface” (CNN – Grouchy Geek)
On Wednesday during an appearance at the Wall Street Journal's D 5: All Things Digital conference, Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft (MSFT), took the wraps off the company's latest incarnation of the Windows PC. I'm talking about "Surface," a table-top PC introduced this week that resembles more than anything one of those old sit-down […]
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How To Eat, Drink And Smoke Like Winston Churchill
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In Detroit, city hall tries a new approach: Helping – Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free PressIn Detroit, city hall tries a new approach: HelpingDetroit Free PressOne job, many duties. All these tasks – organization, introductions, diplomacy – are skills Bullock, an Eagle Scout, learned along the course of his unconventional career choices, which were mainly in social work but also included odder jobs, like …
