Q: Can you take this man seriously? Q: Do you take yourself seriously?
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Old folks get down with podcats, RSS (and Medicare)…
Guess my dry sense of humour just couldn’t resist this medicare skit – “its easy, its simple, and its the right thing to do”.
Could Lord Attenborough help the MLK National Memorial Project Foundation?
Lord Richard Attenborough appeared in front of me today on TV at the Nelson Mandela statue event in Parliament Square, London.
Funny how he disappears out of sight for a while, and now he’s back with today’s event, and then I’m sure for the 10th anniversary memorial for the Princess of Wales. The Richard Attenborough Centre in Leicester where he is from includes a very nice signed pic from Diana, for example. Indeed I’ve heard from a guy who used to be in the same cub scout pack as Attenborough back in the day, but I do digress.
What I was going to say was that in reference to the memorial for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, DC, that maybe the organisers should invite Attenborough, a trustee of the Mandela Statue Fund, on to their Foundation to help smooth the way forward?
Is the pharma-freeze on new and social media thawing?
Is the pharma-freeze on new and social media thawing? It’s an interesting question, thanks to ‘eye on fda’.
‘Sicko’ gets ‘em talking
Michael Moore’s ‘Sicko’ has been stirring up the US healthcare debate, according to new poll research from Kaiser Family Foundation. Maybe it will have a more positive effect than Fahrenheit 911?
Outsourcing Dr. King to China?
Looks like there’s some controversy (for example in the The Gibson Report posting of 27 August) bubbling up about the awarding of the contract to a Chinese sculpture for the main piece for the MLK Memorial in Washington, DC. I guess from an objective level it also raises interesting issues about best outsourcing practice, especially as in this case the raw material (Chinese granite) as well as the specialized labor all came from China.
Sculptor Lei Yixin
Photo credit: John Harrington
Hole is “not normal”
God, you really couldn’t make this stuff up. When some science guys find the largest hole in the universe, one of the guy says, quote: “What we’ve found is not normal.”
The Cotton Mill, Leicester
Looks like my purchase of an apartment at the Cotton Mill, King St, Leicester is going ahead with the help of Shirley. And the good news is that the council are planning to turn the street outside into a pedestrainised area – to be completed by August 2008..
Do you have a shy website?
Make your mark
Nice to hear the logo of the healthy schools programme, where I worked 2 hard for 4.5 years has not been granted trade mark status, as I was just thinking the other day it would be nice to re-use it:
“The Department of Health application for HEALTHY SCHOOLS (device-word) was refused. This application appears to be linked to the National Healthy Schools, as the specification covers “certificates to schools awarding achievement of Healthy Schools status” and can be seen being used in this publication. Perhaps if Jamie Oliver had been one of the children depicted jumping for joy at their healthiness, this mark would have had more success!”