Category Archive: planning

Smile Like You Mean It (Thoughts on Passion)

Above: England’s finest celebrating a goal. Picture via hout7. This has been sparked by a few conversations I’ve been having; it’s a response of sorts, so bear with me. As I’m sure I’ve… Continue reading

The customer is not a moron. The customer is your wife.

Anyone of my bloggy readership read The Guardian? Personally, I don’t. But I heard about this story. It’s more interesting for me personally, considering it concerns somewhere where I used to work, and… Continue reading

Gotta love slideshare …

Slideshare really is excellent. Just registered with it, and I urge you to do so as well. Great for putting random gubbins up on t’internet. So I have. Here’s a newly updated presentation… Continue reading

Job Hunting (or how that tall chap became a planner)

Hello. I’m usually a contentious, mildly sarcastic chap who posts on this blog (yes, I really am that tall, attractive man; told you I could be sarcastic). However, I’ll be frank – I… Continue reading

Authenticity is as authenticity does..

I should probably prefix this by saying that I find the notion that Dolmio is actually made in Holland absolutely, positively the funniest thing about these ads (no, I don’t get out much… Continue reading

Cocktail Parties..

Usual policy applies – thanks Mr Giles Before I get properly in the post, I’ve got to put a disclaimer on this one: *WARNING – OVERSTRETCHED ANALOGY ALERT* Right, that’s over with. Cocktail… Continue reading

Arrogance is a gift?

Consider the following quote: “If you are on thin ice, you may as well dance”. Not something I’d recommend, but hey. The point of the picture of Mr Mourinho and that quote is… Continue reading

Belated IPA Talk Thoughts..

The IPA talk was fascinating; always good to hear two heavyweights duke it out. But, as Chris Forrest rightly pointed out, there wasn’t enough blood on the walls; just a little bit of… Continue reading

IPA Blogging/Planning Talk – Who’s going?

So who is going to this tonight? I will be there.

Campaign Fame and an Announcement…

Campaign have taken it upon themselves to publish my article. Which is nice. Taking umbridge with Mr Bullmore, it’s just about how blogging helped me out. So, I guess, now is as good… Continue reading