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Archive for July, 2008

hidden beauty

Posted in architecture, radio, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Thanks to Mike Todd for the shots of this beautiful and rarely seen stone carving from Eric Gill, uncovered during the renovation work on the old BBC Broadcasting House in early 2005. Gill sculpted Prospero and Ariel in 1932 and it sits proudly on the front of BH above the main entrance. He left this [...]

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out with the old?

Posted in radio, wifi, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This Grundig radio faithfully sat in my parent’s kitchen for the last 40 years or so. The tuning dial was fairly dodgy, making it really difficult to tune to another station then find radio 4 again, but that didn’t matter too much seeing as BBC radio 4 represents about 95% of my parent’s listening. (The [...]

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simple sabotage

Posted in business, tagged , on July 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I stumbled on the “Simple Sabotage field manual” from the US Office of Strategic Services from 1944 which has recently been declassified. It’s amazing to see how many of the techniques for sabotaging organisations have almost become institutionalised. Recognise any saboteurs in your organisation?! extract follows: “General interference with organisations and production – Organisations and [...]

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