Month: May 2003
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Hydrogen hopes
A good survey of the emerging hydrogen economy from the FT (you’ll need a subscription or a free trial). The carbon establishment is betting on hydrogen because they think it…
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Retail’s future
Johnnie Boden is a new age retailer with conservative attitudes: “In its celebration of warmth, contentment and pleasure in what one already has, Boden is the polar opposite of fashion’s…
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Visionary or goofball?
Fortune Magazine breathlessly inducts Bezos into the management hall of fame. And so they should.
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Why I love chamber music more than orchestral music
I don’t think that anything so tender, tragic or complete as Schubert’s String Quintet in C exists in the orchestral repertoire. And nowhere else will you find such passion, love…
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While I was away…
I blogged a review of William Langewiesche’s American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center a couple of weeks ago and now I’ve actually read the book. It’s outstanding journalism, based…
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In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been for a couple of weeks…
Since we reset our clocks to baby time on May 1 we’ve been enjoying the hospitality of Watford General Hospital a little more than we expected. First the nice people…
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Introducing…
(click the little pics for bigger ones)…Rosa May Bowbrick. Just short of 8 lbs in weight, born at 12.05 pm May 1st at Watford General Hospital under an amazing stormy…