We try to compile Top Ten lists (inspired by Guardian children's books top tens!), and talk about what we've read, though these discussions do easily get distracted... Golden Morning Reading Group The top activity we've ever done was have Alex T. Smith visit; he was brilliant and the school went Claude crazy!
It's one little detail among a few which get recycled as we try to compile the quick character sketches of the kind that filled many of Sunday's papers, where he was presented as "Super-Maro", "Harrow Maro", and "Sport's Latest Superstar".
So I have tried to compile a list of my absolute must-read business books.
He briefly tried to compile a timeline of every recording Miles ever made, then gave up.
Some big companies, relying on information technology, have tried to compile libraries of successful solutions to recurrent problems.
His office tried to compile a judicial directory about 10 years ago but gave up because of opposition from Supreme Court judges.
Because of the diversity of Reform prayer books, Wise tried to compile a standard work and in 1857 published the Minhag America ("American Usage").
Ai Weiwei, a prominent artist who often criticizes the Communist Party, had his Web site blocked after he tried to compile online a comprehensive tally of dead schoolchildren.
Successive archivists had tried to compile inventories but all had given up in despair, and I spent much of my time trying to group stacks of pages by century before they crumbled into dust.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, with information gathered from abandoned Qaeda hideouts in Afghanistan and Pakistan and from captured terrorists, the officials have tried to compile the names of everyone who attended the camps.
Sure, Mike Butcher over at TechCrunch Europe already posted a few pointers, and Nicholas Deleon from CrunchGear tried to compile an exhaustive list of websites, apps and podcasts as well.
