Monthly Archives: December 2005

Strategies to avoiding danger

Posted on Dec 28, 2005 by sim

Nobody wants to be a victim of a crime or other nasty incidents. While most people are still honest in that you don’t have to be constantly on high alert, some crime avoidance strategies are in order especially when you’re … Continue reading →

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One-year blogging anniversary

Posted on Dec 24, 2005 by sim

It occurred to me that around these days I have been writing this blog for a year already. I had a moblog earlier, too, but the technology was not quite mature for that at the time (and, IMO, still isn’t … Continue reading →

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Network abusers or valuable customers?

Posted on Dec 22, 2005 by sim

Whenever a new communications service is launched, the operators are worried about those who will “abuse” the service – paradoxically, these people can also be called early adopters or power users, and there is often a very fine line separating … Continue reading →

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How about grocery sales, you want a cut of those too?

Posted on Dec 20, 2005 by sim

This latest case has been brewing for some years, but it just goes to show that the world of royalty fees paid to the entertainment industry is getting weirder every day. At the same time when return-to-the-middle-ages style pillory punishments … Continue reading →

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Will you quit with the generations already?!

Posted on Dec 18, 2005 by sim

The human need to categorize, sort and group things together is amazing. One of the most visible signs of this collective obsession (especially, it seems, in the marketing world) is the almost annual emergence of yet another “generation” of people … Continue reading →

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