Your voice into printed word

by | Aug 15, 2014 | Recommendations

I’ve been using Dragon Naturally Speaking for ages to dictate emails and articles and have my words instantly turned into printed words. Once you have trained Dragon it works very well… but you do have to take the time to train it. Now I’ve discovered something...

There is a nice way of doing it!

by | Aug 11, 2014 | Customer service

As you probably know the English are generally enormously polite and back in 2008 I commented on this lovely soft way of advising parking restrictions… When I saw this polite traffic notice in London it made me think that perhaps soft words would work better...

Another commercial

by | Aug 8, 2014 | TV Commercials

I’m indebted to Felicity, my miracle worker, for finding this lulu and her comments with which I full concur:  It’s had over 46 million views and I wonder if it sold any shampoo? Maybe it was all about branding.  Or maybe they just really felt it was...

Another train of thought

by | Aug 7, 2014 | Tales

Sorry to divert you from business for just a moment but I realised a dream while I was overseas. I did something I’ve wanted to do for a long, long time. Since I was a kid in fact I’ve gone out of my way to see model trains and it was a great day when I...

Is that sign necessary?

by | Aug 6, 2014 | Customer service

Sometime ago I wrote about the urge some people have of displaying explanatory or warning signs for situations where they are not really necessary. I think what happens is that the creators of such signs either just have lots of time on their hands or love printing...