Working On Our Twitter App

Ok, it has been a while since we posted anything here. In the last few months, things have not been going as smoothly as we would have liked at the office. In an effort to make saving and trim down operations, a number of our staff have gone... well, that's just the beginning according to the people at the top.

So, because of that, a number of the projects we had going had to be put on hold (including our planned fortnightly books and movie ticket give-aways). I will blog about the give aways in another post.

However, because of the said cutbacks at the office, one of our main developers has now moved on to a different company, leaving us with no one really good enough on our team to understand most of his code to carry on with those half completed project.

In our attempt to get things working again, we have now expanded our yearly interns recruitment programme and have 4 interns working with us this year - that's 2 more than we are used to. Luckily for us, one of the guys is very talented and was kind enough to look at the code in hopes of getting the application finished.

So, fingers crossed, we should have our very own branded Twitter App running in a few days time. There will be different versions for iPad, Android and web-based. So, watch this space.

We would like to say a big thank you to you all for being there and we hope to start Tweeting again soon. So look out for tweets sent via 'Greenwich Live' in your timeline.

About

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For the time been, this place will remain empty.

The Help

Having already had some insight into both sides of this coin - my grandmother worked for families as a babysitter and housekeeper, and I've had to hire both myself - I thought The Help did an excellent job of capturing the fraught and complicated dynamics of the help and the "lady of the house."

The author's sympathies are, rightly so, focused on the African-American housekeepers and the powerless positions they find themselves in, but she also captured the (admittedly, rare) examples of generosity on the part of some employers. A quibble though: the book is set in the 1960s, and most of the housekeepers are supposedly uneducated. How is it that so many of them seem immersed in the self-esteem movement of the 1990s?

There are several scenes where the African-American housekeeper repeats Mister Rogers-like mantras to her white charge, about how she's smart and beautiful and good, just for being who she is.

It seems contrived, and a bit clueless, especially now that psychologists are beginning to suggest that the idea "boosting self-esteem," especially with empty praise, is useless if not detrimental to kids. Here's the full review

Hello and welcome to GreenwichLive

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