The annoyance of trying to buy computer memory in Europe. You get all of these great prices from North America but most of the companies won’t deliver outside North America. Those that do, charge ridiculous delivery fees ($33 and up). If they do send it, you face customs and paperwork on the receiving end.
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Silicon Cloud » 12 Ways to Irritate Your Visitors: 7) Unnecessary Questions – Ensure that the subscription form to your ezine or newsletter spam contains at least 36 questions more than needed…. By adding other pointless questions such as age, sex, hobbies, religion and inside leg measurement is a sure-fire way to prevent people ordering your product or subscribing to your mailing list.
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For LaLa#3:CocoMotel, Laure Dever and Laura Vanborm brought one of the most ambitious builds I’ve seen in this space: a three metre and eight metre wide high green structure with movie screen on both left and right and a centre window. As we wait for the show to start we can just see urgent pacing behind the white screen on the left side.
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Willi Dorner in 404 has clearly demonstrated for all who would care to see that the conceptual need not be static, that there is scant excuse to waste dancers in non-movement.
Leave a CommentOf all the arts, dance and poetry are my true passions…. The dance this season has been deeply disappointing since the fabulous Jan Fabre-blessed season at Tanzquartier a couple of years ago. The dance which is being commissioned and presented is conceptual.
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Last winter when I was livigin in Paris, I went regularly to the cultural evenings and exhibitions at the Centre Culturel Irlandais on rue des Irlandais just behind rue Mouffetard. At one of the exhibitions I was introduced to a pair of tall and imposing Serbians with the incredible project of mounting a for free cultural satellite channel.
Leave a CommentMarion Barry, Act XVII: “There are no second acts in American lives” is one of the few truly dumb things F…. Everybody in America gets an Act II, and even an Act III — look at how Arnold Schwarzenegger went from bodybuilder to movie star to governor.
8 CommentsTechWeb | Retirement Benefits | IBM To Halt Contributions To U.S. Pension Plan: BM said it expects the announced changes, along with 2006 changes under consideration in several other countries, to cut worldwide retirement-related expenses this year by $450 million to $500 million. From 2006 through 2010, the company expects to cut costs by $2.5 billion to $3 billion.
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