Maclaren: more service problems in Japan

November 11, 2009

Since writing this, the same issue has appeared on the BBC News website (Maclaren will probe buggy claims), and yes, indeed, Maclaren are avoiding the issue in markets other than the USA. Yes, as the article rightly notes, parents need to take extra care, and yes, I’m sure it’s not a problem related to just [...]

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Maclaren: more service problems in Japan

November 11, 2009

Since writing this, the same issue has appeared on the BBC News website (Maclaren will probe buggy claims), and yes, indeed, Maclaren are avoiding the issue in markets other than the USA. Yes, as the article rightly notes, parents need to take extra care, and yes, I’m sure it’s not a problem related to just [...]

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Top Presenters: Steve Jobs' Presentation Secrets on BusinessWeek

November 3, 2009

Well, I gave everyone plenty of chance, but it seems things are very slow this week, so anyone wanting to do Steve Jobs just lost the opportunity. The value of reading – newspapers, magazines, blogs, and sometimes books – is that it provides information and that provides ideas. BusinessWeek just posted a review of a [...]

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We wuz mugged!!

November 2, 2009

About 10 years ago, I walked out of Oakland airport late one evening. It was dark, I was carrying a bag in each hand, and I wanted to rush across to my car in the big car park across from the terminal. As I walked through the car park, a large muscular man hailed me [...]

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Maclaren: having a bad import agent in Japan

October 13, 2009

I went to the Maclaren shop in Aoyama to get a replacement rain cover for our 2008 Maclaren Volo buggy today. The shop had 5 assistants standing about and no customers on either floor – quite an achievement given that it’s a holiday, but the store is in a truly awful location so that probably [...]

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VisualCV

October 9, 2009

Another very nice looking online CV site. VisualCV Get a better resume, online.. This one looks more advanced, but that’s not a bad thing.

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CeeVee: Resumes Done Right

October 9, 2009

Web Daily Worker is one of the best blogs about work using the internet and its various functions and applications as your central workplace and software. It recently posted a very positive review of CeeVee: Resumes Done Right which I picked up the other day and which we should use in the Zemi. Have a [...]

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Crippled MacBook Pro graphics

September 28, 2009

I’m seriously pissed off with Apple – and that doesn’t happen too often. I replaced my much used MacBook Pro bought in 2006 with the latest model in June. On the whole, it’s a nice machine, but I’ve just discovered that the Minidisplay Port that Apple crows about is complete and total crap – at [...]

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24-hours with Snow Leopard

September 3, 2009

A new Apple OS is always an exciting thing to get your hands on. Having got a new MBP earlier in the summer I took advantage of the even cheaper option to get an upgrade – it cost me ¥990 rather than the ¥3,300 Apple is charging everyone else in Japan. That’s a tad more, [...]

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Thomas and Friends Live in Tokyo

July 20, 2009

We went to see Thomas and Friends Live at a theatre in Tokyo last week. The show has just come from Singapore and we’d found lots of footage of it on Youtube so when by chance I found it playing here we had to go. It turned out to be F’s first outing too although [...]

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