05 Oct

The Week That Was

Questions on my mind this week:

1. If I go to Sydney for the weekend, does that enhance my foreign policy experience?

2. Is it really possible to read all the magazines in world, as Sarah Palin claims to have done? Even a speed-reader would struggle, I think.

3. Is buying a url similar to that of a successful blog (be it a .net version or just a typo of the same url) effectively drinking the blogger’s milkshake?

4. Does visiting a country for a couple of days really mean you have ’seen’ that country?

5.  Can I really be expected to pick up on your cryptic references to ’60s TV shows?

6. Is my $700B bailout in the post?

7. Is googling oneself really a narcissistic waste of time, or a useful exercise in monitoring one’s personal branding?

8.  Speaking of personal branding, are there any Gen-Yers out there who don’t have a tattoo?

9. If Metallica needed an on-call therapist for two years, what hope is there for the rest of us?

10. Why didn’t I win last night’s $20m lottery draw? I bought a ticket and everything.