Entries with the tag: ‘Social_Media’
Most of our lives consist of mundane, day-to-day, drudgery but sometimes, just sometimes, we experience something which acts like a watershed which changes our way of looking at the world; our own version of the “Damascus Road”. It might be a religious conversion like St. Paul’s but it might be somewhat more prosaic than the […]
When is a joke not a joke? April Fools’ Day, (or All Fools’ Day), is not a holiday but as in many other countries around the world is celebrated on April 1st by people playing hoaxes or practical jokes on one another. Most of them are small scale, private jokes, played on immediate family, friends […]
Twitter is officially five years old. The first tweet was sent out on 21st March, 2006. The idea apparently grew out of SMS (Short message service) codes that people were sending each other on their mobile phones, and it is sometimes described as the internet SMS. Subscribers are able to send short messages, no more […]
In the far off days of my youth, getting letters was something that happened quite rarely … it was quite an event. “Snail mail” was the only option open to us, (apart from the telephone, but we only got a telephone late on), and it took a couple of days for letters to arrive – […]
I was faced with an interesting dilemma this week … I received a Skype message from a colleague, the director of another tour company based here in Bishkek. He wanted to swap links between our websites.
Unfortunately things don’t always go right … even in the the best run establishment, things can go wrong, problems can arise, and grounds for complaint can occur. There are some people who complain “at the drop of a hat”, who think nothing of making a scene at even the smallest mistake or mishap, whilst others […]
I am not a great fan of Internet Chat services. Don’t get me wrong, they can be very useful, especially for someone like me, living so far away from home, with business partners and clients scattered all around the world. I have registered and signed up for a couple of services but, to be honest, […]
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