February 2006

Acronyms: when AI means AI and not AI

by Bill Wren on February 25, 2006

One of my favourite hobbyhorses is acronyms – they drive me crazy. I understand why they are used. I think they can be practical, even functional. But it just makes me nuts the way they are used with the assumption readers are aware of their meaning. This week I while trawling blogs I saw AI [...]

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How to write a customer e-mail

by Bill Wren on February 21, 2006

I sent the link to Seth Godin’s post Bits are free to a bunch of people I work with last week. I told them I thought it was brilliant. Of course, it’s brilliant largely through contrast. So many e-mails are a waste of everyone’s time – yours and your customers. So what is good about [...]

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Warn the world; forgive me — poetry threatens

by Bill Wren on February 20, 2006

I bought a book the other day — The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry. It’s a book about writing poetry. No, really. Now, I think I know enough about language and particularly English that I don’t need a book about how to write a poem. So why pick this up? The answer is simple [...]

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Apologies – I’m experimenting

by Bill Wren on February 19, 2006

The previous post was just to get an idea for something else I have in mind – moving another site to WordPress. And I’m leaving it up for a while so I can refer to it. Unfortunately, it’s a waste of your time. Sorry!

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Bandits

by Bill Wren on February 19, 2006

2001 – directed by Barry Levinson (3 stars out 5) Some years ago, maybe around the time of Pulp Fiction, Hollywood developed a new kind of movie genre which I call the chimera. In Greek mythology, the chimera has a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail. In other words, it’s a hodge [...]

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