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Writing your priorities on paper works if you’re able to knock them off in an afternoon. With a torrent of incoming tasks at home or work, many get carried over to the next day (or week or month). This Excel spreadsheet watches approaching deadlines and shifts task priorities accordingly. In 20 minutes the steps below provide a more effective way to manage your priorities.
Dubbed the “habitat for the 21st century,” the Dome House is an igloo-shaped structure built from snap-together wall sections made of 100% expanded polystyrene foam (styrofoam).
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Niel Gow (1727-1807) was possibly the most famous Scottish fiddler of the 18th century.
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Of all the great song-writers emerging from the independent music scene of the late nineteen eighties, Dave Gedge was the unrivalled master at observing human relationships in the simple parlance of the working classes but with the touch and artistry of a poet.
Beijing’s 70,000 taxis have had equipment installed in the run up to the Olympics, that enable the authorities to bug them, track them via GPS and disable them remotely. Apparently this is all in the name of driver safety, but then, that is the official line.
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China is an interesting case study for this kind of invasive technology. In democracies, we often believe the line that people, who do no wrong, have nothing to fear. While it’s possible that regime change would happen, it seems a pretty remote concept, even though I’m sure most Germans felt the same thing in the early 1930s. But imagine what Hitler and later, Stalin and his successors in East Germany, could have done if they could track every move their citizens made and every word they spoke, along with the ability to monitor patterns of words analysed by the powerful computing technology of today.
I will now invite you into my home. The pictures are used as inspiration, and below each picture follow a little story. Most of the items are from the Tine K Home collection, but can be sold out.