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25 years of PowerPoint – tips from the BBC.
Bizarrely, the BBC online magazine has an excellent article on “The problem with PowerPoint” with some…
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Running for Fitness website updated
About six years ago I threw together a website, www.runningforfitness.org, to make running-related calculations (for example:…
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Charging the poor for services
Tim Harford has an interesting article in this weekend’s Financial Times about private health and education…
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Special advisers and civil servants
Danny Finkelstein in The Times sticks up for Special Advisers. Alex Evans, who was a Special…
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What to bring to Africa
Scarlett Lion has this list. Her main advice is to keep it to a minimum. Here…
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15 beliefs on workplace management
Bob Sutton offers us fifteen tips on workplace management. Most resonate with me. Especially these two:…
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Gordon Brown: technology has changed foreign policy
The BBC reports Gordon Brown’s speech at the TED conference today: The power of technology –…
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That’s a different Owen
I was touched to receive the following message through my website yesterday: i am one of…
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Development podcast: US-Africa policy, and False Economy
I’m inordinately proud of the latest two episodes of my development podcast, Development Drums. In Episode…
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Development & Geeks. Cool.
If you are a geek who is into development, and you are somewhere near Washington DC,…
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