My Week in Hell
Ric Vatner | March 1, 2010
The previous week was such a good week, you would think the Karma alone would have carried me through last week.
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2010: How Your Grandparents Saw the Present
Ric Vatner | February 25, 2010
I would like to ask you what do you foresee in the next 50 or 100 years? Not from a technological point of view but rather how do you feel man will evolve “sociologically” over the next 50 to 100 years? Will all the problems we face today; economic, global warming, population and environmental, change us for the better or worse or not at all? Will we still be here in a hundred years?
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The Great Chocolate Rip Off – A short Story
Ric Vatner | February 14, 2010
I just added a short story to my blog at Shadow in the Flame – you can read it here: http://bit.ly/avBfQd
It’s a simple parable about an enterprising boy who starts a great little business at infant’s school. I like the little blighter but he does make you think. This is the American Dream (which is now the world’s dream) but is it what we really want.
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Has America Peaked or is the Best to Come?
Ric Vatner | February 4, 2010
I found a lot of good material during my research and if you are interested in world affairs including who’s hot and whose not and where the world is heading politically I think you will enjoy reading it.
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Market Fragmentation is a Problem in China Too!
Ric Vatner | January 23, 2010
We discussed the problems inherent in traditional media and the fragmented market (i.e. you can’t just buy an advert on TV during prime time these days and know you will get to most of your target market). The surprising thing (for me) was that it seems it is the same in China and they were very interested in finding out how to overcome that issue.
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Giving a Talk to a Non English Speaking Audience
Ric Vatner | January 19, 2010
This was the first time I have ever given a talk to a non English speaking audience that had to be translated as I spoke. I can tell you it is not as easy as it looks.
I did everything I could in advance to make the talk work. I had my PowerPoint presentation translated into Chinese and I sent the translator a copy of my talk in advance so she could read it and prepare.
So what could go wrong?
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Speaking Engagements Jan & Feb 2010
Ric Vatner | January 8, 2010
I’ve got some interesting speaking engagements coming up over the next few weeks. On the 18th January I am giving a talk to 24 Chinese school principals who are visiting Australia on a study tour. The topic is Confucius / Confucian Philosophy. I hope I pass.
On the 22nd January I am giving a talk to another group from China. These are Chinese CEO’s and I will be wearing my business hat and talking about Internet marketing, Social Media and eSTV.
Finally on Tuesday 2nd of February I’m debating Stephen from Ariel Bookshop at the Philosophy Corner meeting which is held at Ariel Bookshop, 42 Oxford St Paddington. This is our first meeting for 2010 and promises to be a real corker. The topic is “American Dominance of world affairs is over and it is a Spent Force” or something similar to that.
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David Jones Parramatta – A True Story
Ric Vatner | November 13, 2009
I know David Jones in Parramatta. Or rather, I know the car park. I used to park my car there when I went to Parramatta to visit my clients. One Friday afternoon I parked there, visited my client, went for a few drinks (as you do) and then we decided to go out to dinner. We may also have had a few more drinks, I can’t remember much about the night except that when I went to pick up my car the car park was closed. I believe it was about 1am.
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A Love Story
Ric Vatner | November 10, 2009
“Excuse me” she floated over invading my space but I had already surrendered so I didn’t object. “It won’t go” She said looking back at the car and then at me waiting for an answer.
when I realised that she expected me to fix her beast I had a panic attack and just starred at her in awe and in terror. I couldn’t tell her what a useless sod I was she would find someone else (in a snap). This was a god sent opportunity and I was not going to pass it up.
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Check Out Chick
Ric Vatner | November 6, 2009
I ducked out yesterday to buy some milk for the office and when I got to the cash register you can imagine my surprise when I was directed to a self serve register. Or maybe you can’t, I’m not a regular shopper so this was very new to me.
At first I was told I had a choice, I could use the self serve register or I could go to a regular check out with a much more experienced cashier than me. But when I looked at the long line of registers that are normally manned by cashiers I noticed that 75% of them were empty and the queue to use those that were left was rather long.
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