Chris Gilbey OAM If you have come here, you presumably want to find out a bit about me. If you want to get the corporate bio and CV, go to my LinkedIn profile. If you want to read some of the things that I think about from time to time, you can read the Perceptric [...]
Last night I went to a belated Thanksgiving dinner at some friends, one of whom is American. One of the guests was a journalist who I haven't seen for at least 15 years – Bruce Elder. (Bruce is one of the most knowledgeable music journalists I have ever met and was incidentally a big supporter [...]
Today is Cyber Monday. If Black Friday was the mall and the bricks and mortar shopping explosion, today, as people sit at their workdesks with high speed internet connection is when they start online shopping for Christmas in earnest. The Washington Post notes that Visa does 20% of its yearly volume between Thanksgiving and year end, [...]
Another women died in Indonesia of bird flu. 6 deaths now, 42 reported sick, total confusion reigns. Australia is helping. The UN says its 80 mill short of the 100 it needs to fight bird flu. Meanwhile, 14 Russian towns are in quarantine. A race for a H5N1 vaccine goes on as Iran and the Philippines become [...]