Training as an accountant involved acquiring lots of useless information – like understanding how little wire coils stored information in big computing machines (at a time when the first desktop PCs were already available). 287 more words
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Old and new connections
Less than a week in and a friend from the first time I went to University (in the dark ages) contacted me – he’d just moved home, found my old telephone number, and that it was no longer connected, and decided to Google me. 61 more words
According to the International Diabetes Foundation, 371 million people worldwide have diabetes. That’s the population of South America, less Ecuador.
The fisherman and the businessman
Paul Coelho says that this is a classic Brazilian story:
401 more wordsThere was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village.
Ice on the Magnolias
Here at MissPres, we may not be all about Moonlight and Magnolias, but when there’s ice on the magnolias (and the camellias), we pay attention. 47 more words
Just how important is the opening line of a novel? It’s really a variant on the chicken-and-egg scenario. Is a book good because it had a cracking opening line that sucked you in or is it a cracking opening line because the book is good so you remembered it. 68 more words
