An Officer’s Best Friend
bout de papier, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1990), p. 15 “User friendly” they said, “Menu Driven.Just follow instructions. Hit any key.Before you know, it’s indispensible.”Hard to recognize my IBM clonecomputer in that glowing sales pitch, asI sit here at night with the screen gone blankexcept for one *! message flashing forth;ERROR. FORMATTED FOR DEFAULT PRINTERBloody […]
Reflections of An Ur*-COSICS User
The Department, as most of its members know by now, is in the process of implementing a massive communications and office automation project known as COSICS (Canadian On-line Secure Information and Communications System). For two years or so it has been in…
Editor’s Notebook
bout has come a long way since it first emerged as a gestetnered information bulletin back in 1973. bout is continuing to evolve in an effort to continue to meet the changing interests of the PAFSO membership — both our internal concerns,…
PAFSO Professional Committee Breakfast Seminars: Fall Preview
by Margaret Huber
The Joys of Renting….
by Carol N. Markham
“So You Want to Learn Chinese”
Story by Hugh Stephens Photos by Fredericka Gregory
Reflections on a First Year in the Department
by Michael Boekhoven, Alison LeClaire, Ted MacKay, Gary Miller, and Benoit Prefontaine
Letters // Correspondance
Your readers might enjoy this postscript to Sidney Freifeld’s excellent article on “The Poets of External” in the most recent issue of bout de papier.
From the President’s Desk // Le mot du président
Like most foreign service officers, I had perceived PAFSO as a rather ineffectual bargaining agent and professional association that occasionally came up with interesting speakers, coffee and donuts for breakfast.
Editor’s Notebook
Lors d’une récente réunion, un de nos collègues, pince-sans-rire, a déclaré que la crise qui secoue à l’heure actuelle le Ministère peut se résumer par « P et P »”. Non, il ne parlait des Priorités et de la Planification, quoique l’on…
