Connecting to the Net in 1992
a shel of my former self (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Spokane in 1992, making an online connection ran headlong into 1930s technology
direct line
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Explaining race conditions to a non-technical audience
Top Questions - Stack Overflow (Free subscription) | yesterday
Recently, I found myself having to write up some concerns I have about race conditions in an application that is in development (not by me). This will likely be brought to the attention of stakeholders who are non-technical and with whom I do not have a direct line of communication, so my explanation needs to be in written form. I have already made an attempt at this write-up. I gloss...
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Mathewson plays down job losses at Royal Bank
The Herald (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
... also has to decide within weeks whether or not to sell the RBS Insurance division which takes in Direct Line and Churchill and is one of the biggest employers in Glasgow's financial services sector. The comments from Mathewson, who retired from Royal in 2006, will fuel speculation that Hester will retain this defensive business.Mathewson himself played key roles in massive job cutting...
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Housekeeping Supervisor
Jobs 4 Careers (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, supporting the Director and Assistant Director of Housekeeping, motivating and directing line employees to ensure consistent and outstanding productivity in turndown, guest room and public area services, training and counseling staff in duties and policies, providing guest assistance and satisfaction, and completing all necessary administrative...
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RBS investors agree government bailout
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
... was passed by 99.3 per cent of votes cast.During the credit boom, RBS, which owns NatWest and Direct Line, maximised shareholder returns by maintaining a thin capital buffer against future losses as its loan book ballooned. It also went on an acquisition spree that ended in the £10bn buy-up of the Dutch bank ABN Amro's wholesale banking business, which caused about £2bn of first-half...
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I found where TalkTalk hid their Customer Service
bitjobs for the masses! (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... of mouth, a lot of customers are flooding the forum with requests to be upgraded. When I worked at Direct Line, it was on the ‘internet section’. We dealt with customers who had registered their claims online or wanted to query their existing ones. Although this was five years ago, it made a lot of people comment on how easy it was to get answers instead of having to wait on the end...
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Snowball eyeing RBS's insurance business
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Patrick Snowball, former head of Aviva's UK arm, is eyeing Direct Line amid continued doubts about Royal Bank of Scotland's ability to offload its insurance businesses
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We all want to die and go to Ireland
catholicmomof10revisited (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
As is clearly demonstrated by this joke I found at In Nomini Domini here & below George Bush is flying around the world making visits to other countries. He goes to the Vatican and notices a gold phone on the Pope's desk. He asks about the phone and the Pope tells him it's a direct line to God. Bush asks if he can call. So he gets on the phone, talks to God for about 5 minutes and hangs...
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Love, (Old) Italian Style
Style.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Proving that an obsession with marriage and weddings is hardly a recent phenomenon, the Met’s Art and Love in Renaissance Italy exhibit opens tomorrow with 150 objects, including one of the earliest known diamond wedding rings, and paintings from Titian, Botticelli, and Lorenzo Lotto that all revolve around the subject of romance and nuptials. Is there a direct line from these works to...
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Microsoft Will Kill Blu-Ray
Fool.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
... I thought we already had a plethora of those?What does Microsoft's in-house store offer that the online stores of Best Buy (NYSE: ), Amazon (Nasdaq: ), and Wal-Mart (NYSE: ) can't match? First, let's ask Microsoft."Microsoft Store is really about making that direct connection with the customers, and then making it a great experience from start to finish," says Larry Engel, the general...
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Employee referral schemes
XpertHR - Employment Intelligence (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
... If you have any questions regarding this research, please contact Neil Rankin, by email or phone (direct line) 020 8652 2255.
