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Opinion

Aug 25, 2010 Opinion

Diagnosing trouble with Google Medicine

by Leah Gibbs

It’s so tempting, isn’t it?
So tempting and so much easier than going to the GP.
I’m talking about Google Medicine.
Type in a few symptoms – headache, tiredness, and irritability – and a person can be surprised to find she has all the symptoms of pregnancy, or a young woman alarmed to see the signs of dementia [...]

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Aug 5, 2010 Opinion

Living on the edge – of a deadline

by Leah Gibbs

I have my own style of time management: wait til the pressure is really on, then sweat and work frantically to meet a deadline. I love it, I thrive on it. I advise others against this yet I cannot help myself.
It’s probably not the method recommended by experts, psychologists, or those people who turn up [...]

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Jul 22, 2010 Opinion

Phone Tones

by Leah Gibbs

I can always tell who my partner is talking to when he is on the phone, just by his tone of voice. There is the enthusiastic tone he talks with his daughter, the official tone with his work colleagues, the bloke-ish series of grunts (and shocking deterioration of language) that accompanies chats with his online [...]

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Jul 14, 2010 Opinion

Please go away, Superwoman

by Leah Gibbs

I have written about guilt before, and this is probably somewhat of an extension of that. Asking for help used to be something only men weren’t very good at: help broadly, but more specifically, directions of course. But now, I think the disease has spread.
I cannot, CANNOT ask for help, and even if I desperately [...]

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Jun 29, 2010 Opinion

Forty winks? That’s just greedy

by Leah Gibbs

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I have been suffering intense sleep deprivation in the past four weeks. But the funny thing is, I have never felt more alert.
After dragging myself sluggishly and reluctantly through the initial few days of little sleep, I suddenly hit my stride: as though my system realised, with a shock, [...]

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May 20, 2010 Opinion

Internet Leeches, Get Original, Get A Life

by Leah Gibbs

When people steal your ideas, it is always frustrating: when this theft threatens your business, reputation and everything you have worked for, it is terrifying, unjust, and enraging. Makes my blood boil.
Much has been written about both sides of the internet, the good and the bad.
The bad? Internet predators, leeches, scammers, false information, the lack [...]

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May 16, 2010 Opinion

Motivation creation

by Leah Gibbs

The other day, I just stopped caring.
I had had a bad week, with a range of things conspiring to get me down, and as I made my essential morning coffee, I realised: I do not care. I couldn’t be bothered, I just had one of those days.
I didn’t care about my work, the appointments I [...]

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May 10, 2010 Opinion

Sexing it up

by Leah Gibbs

Sex sells, so they say. And even if they didn’t say, the proof is in the pudding – ads for things as mundane as coffee and cleaning products generally have a writhing, pouting princess or macho man somewhere in the ad campaign, and even newsreaders are starting to look like glamour models.
Everything needs to be [...]

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May 6, 2010 Opinion

I had forgotten

by Leah Gibbs

I had forgotten, until recently, the little games that your mind can play on you when you have a pile of work to do.
Not exciting work – I’m talking about the dry stuff we all have to trudge through to keep our businesses afloat, keep our numbers up to date, and so on, not the [...]

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Apr 23, 2010 Opinion

When things get stuck in your head

by Leah Gibbs

It used to be annoying, but it never made me doubt my sanity, or my path in life. When songs or noises got stuck in my head I knew why they were there, and that probably most people on the train, in the street or at the office had a similar irritating jingle floating around [...]

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Apr 23, 2010 Opinion

Smooth Interview – Thanks to my botox

by Sally-Anne Blanshard

I was amazed to hear on the news the other day that some people are getting botox in their quest for a more youthful appearance and ultimately a new employment contract.
With the rise in unemployment globally, largely due to redundancies, more and more individuals are looking for the same jobs and there is an underlying [...]

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