Boxing: Bulwell cruiserweight Shane McPhilbin takes on Hastings Rasani at the Grove LC in Balderton on November 20.

The man from Zimbabwe is an 81-fight veteran. He has lost his last 11 but will present McPhilbin (5-3-3-2) with a stern test.

“Shane is training a couple of times a week and is down to 15st now,” said his new manager, Carl Greaves. (more…)

Blog is short for Web Log or Weblog and the Blogosphere is the online blog world, some parts of which are hyperlinked extensively to each other.

This is the Wikipedia definition: Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.

I recommend that you read lots of peoples blogs to learn what blogs are. Go to your favorite search engine and (more…)

What in the world is up with the world of blogs? Blogs are meant to be this great new technology where people can share their ideas and interests with others around the globe. As far as I am concerned, the state of blogs is one of chaos, confusion, and anti-interactivity. The other day I decided to do some research on the Web and try to connect to some blog writers out there that interested me. Let me tell you it was not an enjoyable task as I had envisioned. I spent four painful hours surfing through (more…)

They say that everybody has a story to tell. Some tell winning stories, happy tales of pleasant experiences and fun times. And everyone, it seems, has that one friend or relative that tells the whoppers. You know what I mean – the great big ol “one that got away” and the five mile walk uphill both ways to get to school. Stories began no doubt around the campfire, as a way of passing the cold winter night, settling rambunctious children, or teaching the next generation the legends and mysteries of (more…)

Call center services are a mainstay in the outsourcing industry, thus it is hardly surprising that when broadcasting network, NBC, released the pilot for Outsourced, the show that it terms, ‘at once reverent and irreverent’, it featured the call center setting with the premise of the story being that the US order taking call center was moved offshore into India. But while the plot of the show Outsourced is purely fiction, latest news among call center outsourcing companies do remind (more…)