Useable
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/useable.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadNotice anything different about this site? Christmas came early this year, when Christian moved my site domain to http://annehodgson.de, installed an updated version of WordPress, and migrated my content into it. I then spent the weekend trying things out and putting in the tags and categories you see on […]
Japanese banking issues & winter fashion
Joan sent me this: “Following the problems in the financial sector in the US, uncertainty has now hit Japan. In the last 7 days the Origami Bank has folded, the Sumo Bank has gone belly up and the Bonsai Bank announced plans to cut some of its branches. Yesterday, it was announced that the Karaoke […]
No drama Obama
At the 2nd Presidential Debate on October 7, 2008, Barack Obama was in top sparring form. Go, go, go!
How long have you been here?
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/whatsyourname.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadManagement Circle offered a business communication seminar for management assistants in Frankfurt that I had the privilege to teach. They do a really professional job of organising these events. My students, Astrid, Christine, Elke, Petra, Sladana and Theresia were such a pleasure to be with. Two days are obviously […]
Kat Flint: Go Faster Stripes
Kat Flint, Scottish singer/songwriter, has just released her album “Dirty Birds”, the recording of which was entirely fan-funded. Go faster stripes are racing stripes, and the song is, as her press release tells us, “a tale of impatience, disasters and happy accidents”. She says, “I write lyrics about junkyard prostitutes, life in the fearsome crowd […]
Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winning economist, is famous for his analysis of information asymmetry, a phenomenon which causes markets to be inefficient because the players have incomplete and therefor insufficient information to make the best choices. A completely deregulated free market is not a good thing, he says; markets can benefit from wise government […]
SAP stock down 16%
This news article contains a lot of financial bad news vocabulary we will unfortunately be confronted with in the coming year or so. I guess it’s not a bad idea to get used to using it correctly. Note the false friends: English German stark = ungeschönt stark = strong loan = Darlehen Lohn = salary […]
