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When someone takes you over – stealing your e-mail identity

At 7.50 yesterday I logged onto my Gmail account in Leeds  to find a message saying I’d changed my password twenty minutes before. Twenty minutes later I got a call from a friend in Australia that I’d asked him for money to … Continue reading

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What is better than sport?- nothing (apart from one thing)

Five a side Rockets v the Incredibles. Rockets move to within three points in the Rocks Lane 5 a side league *U14* after a fab 9-4 win, Fleetwood 2 v Yeovil Town 2. YTFC give a way a 2-0 lead in … Continue reading

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24 cheers for The Pension Play Pen Lunch

There’s a fine tradition in this country of people getting together in coffee houses and taverns and sorting out how and with whom business should be transacted. This was how the insurance market was founded in London and it still is how … Continue reading

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“Our weapon is the camera”

Perhaps the measure of political control in Libya is calibrated by fear.
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Sharing stuff

I won’t be the first to remark on the polarisation of the business community between those who see the internet as a threat to their intellectual property (grounded) and those who regard collaboration as a means of creating a better world for … Continue reading

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Linkedin Jungleland

It exists because of the same urge I had as a thirteen year old – I just wanted to get out more. Continue reading

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Top bum ,sedition and Gadaffi the penguin

“What” , you might be asking, ” is going on here?”. Continue reading

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Mittens- that wd stop em lootin

 “More than 90,000 people have signed an online petition calling for anyone convicted of taking part in the riots to lose benefits they get” Thomas Hardy wrote a book of poems entitled “life’s little ironies”. He’d have seen the humour in … Continue reading

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Kids stuff – what HR and Pension people can learn from Generation C

We will be competing for their interest with a whole bunch of others trying to get some space on their cloud. Continue reading

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“You’re on your own in retirement” claims blue-blood at Pension Play Pen lunch.

Dick Strattan gives collective DC a kick in the nuts.
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