Dr. Marlena Corcoran's Blog (3)

Many thanks to all of you who participated in the MBA teleseminar on 25 September! It was a pleasure to talk with such highly-motivated people. Enthusiastic feedback encouraged us to schedule a second session for the convenience of participants in Asia and Australia. The dial-in info below will be valid this Saturday, 29 September, at 2 p.m. MET (Germany), which is 6 p.m. in Bangalore, 8 p.m. in Shanghai and 10 p.m. in Sydney. Check worldclock.com for your city!

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I'm in the throes of relaunching my website, and can't help but think of some advice Dave Barry had about real-life moving: Just light a match, toss it in your front door, and run. You may think it would be a horror to watch your house go up in flames, but the other way just drags out the pain. Where is the equivalent of that moving service that even unpacks your dishes on the other end, carefully placing each dish on its new shelf? I can't even get the commas in the right places. And I hate… Continue

I'm hoping David Pogue is flattered by having today's column reposted on this blog. It had me LOL:

- From the Desk of David Pogue -
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The Next Generation of Online Shorthand
By DAVID POGUE

By now, everybody, I hope, knows what LOL stands for. Most
people probably recognize IMHO, BRB, and AFK. (If you don't
know these, you can always Google* them.)

Online shorthand like this arose, of course, because it's s… Continue