Year 2003

Reading time: < 1 min Your New Core Strategy: Employee Retention: “one day in the not-too-distant future the job market will swing back toward the job seeker’s advantage. And when it does, the effect on some organizations—particularly those that let employee satisfaction and retention strategies take a back seat to seemingly more pressing issues of corporate survival—could be severe” Interesting…

Reading time: < 1 min Yes, the tree is up, as well as the rest of the decorations. Photo of that and hopefully a nice one from Lomond Shores last night where we had dinner. Ohh and you are all keeping an eye on the miniblog, aren’t you?

Reading time: 2 mins The recent Bloggers Xmas Party (in London), and an aside by Lori has pinged a little light bulb in my head. I doubt I’m the first to think of this… By all accounts, the Bloggers Xmas Party was a huge success, and already there are little in-jokes springing up, jokes that, if you weren’t there,…

Reading time: < 1 min The answer was the last one, in case you were wondering. And I forgot to mention the wonderful subtitles for Top of the Pops that included a mention of that well known urban cross-stitching group “Sew Solid”… hey you couldn’t make this stuff up…

Reading time: 2 mins I don’t know where to start. Just this morning another news article about rising figures in the UK, are we heading back to the hedonistic days of the 80s? Haven’t we got the message? “The global HIV/AIDS epidemic killed more than 3 million people in 2003, and an estimated 5 million acquired the human immunodeficiency…

Reading time: < 1 min I need an excuse for why we can’t put the Christmas tree up today.