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A rose by any other name

June 23, 2009 – 6:14 pm

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet…
(Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, 1594)
Or not. I remember when a friend’s husband was employed by a large telco, he was asked to change his Islamic sounding name to “Michael” when taking calls from customers. Being a very easy-going fellow, [...]

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Through a glass, darkly

April 22, 2009 – 9:48 am

An online persona is an interesting thing – a reflection of the self in a very public forum. One of my old bosses used to say, “Never write anything in a file of which you’d be ashamed if it needed to be produced before the Court.” I tend to employ the same principle with regard [...]

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The information arms race

February 1, 2009 – 12:09 am

Like most Oxford graduate students, I subscribe to the UK’s ‘Milkround’ newsletter, which among other things is designed to give graduates useful employment tips and ‘inside’ information. Most of the time it’s anodyne but useful: I’ve secured some consulting work through it, as well as some legal work. Every now and again, however, something within [...]

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