I limit the number of books I agree to review because I always have a long queue of books to read, and I find that agreeing to review a book changes my relationship with it from being a joy of exploration, to yet another task to be completed – a task that’s now four months [...]
We’re getting close to the weekend, so here’s some bubble gum for the mind from the ever entertaining British illusionist Derren Brown. If you work in marketing or communications it’s a great illustration of the power of well written words and visual cues. Both are very smart and well worth the watch… Tweet This Post
OK, this one is off-topic but I thought I’d share. I’m sure you are far more clever than I, but last night I shot a video of my daughter with my phone. When I finished I realized that I had shot the video in portrait rather than landscape, which meant when it was posted online [...]
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I love seeing creativity. Mixing creativity with humor to poke fun at an institution is better again. It’s why I love the Santa Brand Book. Serious kudos to Quiet Room on their magnificent work in support of one of the world’s truly enduring mega-brands. I will never use unapproved Santa® related vocabulary again. *I [...]
Blog notification: This is one of those self-indulgent rambling posts that I do from time to time. Part-introspective, part-grumpy… We “office” workers are probably are working longer and harder than ever before. We deal with more information from more sources, we juggle meetings, calls, work, e-mail, IM, social media and of course most important of [...]
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Sorcha and Anna (my 20 month old daughter) were walking through a store this morning. There were loads of Halloween costumes on display. My daughter stops, sees the mask pictured below, points at it, and says: "Daddy". Nice. Funnily enough Sorcha thought it was rather funny. Tweet This Post
I previously wrote about my love of language in general and the writing of the vintage UK TV series “Yes Minister” in particular. Yes Minister for the uninitiated was a sitcom based around the relationship of a UK government minister and his daily struggle with his civil servants. Well a story in the UK Daily [...]
General note to all those people kindly sending me offers to write guest posts. Unfortunately this blog only gets about 5 visitors a month (and that’s if I hit refresh a couple of times) so you’re probably better spending your time pitching and writing for a real blog like the Huffington Post or Engadget or [...]
Tags: Blogs
During a meeting earlier this week I spotted a well thumbed copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves on an office book shelf. This discovery sparked an enjoyable conversation on the power of language. Of course if you’re working in Public Relations then language is occupational currency. Later in the week I was absent mindedly browsing [...]
Following my last post, Sorcha feels that I am doing my poor daughter a disservice by using the photograph I did. She thinks that I should post some nice photos of Anna to make amends. I’m happy to comply (like I had a choice in the matter). Tweet This Post
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