Archive For November 2008

Jon Hicks has just launched Helvetireader a wonderfully minimalist yet superbly usable theme for Google Reader. I’ve used Google Reader as my RSS application of choice despite it’s rather cluttered and ugly interface; I mean what is it with Google and pale blue? Anyway, I’ve tried the Better GReader plug-in and a few other themesContinue Reading ›

Seth Godin has another great post on his blog today entitled How to Answer the Phone in which he states: The only reason to answer the phone when a customer calls is to make the customer happy. He goes on to say If you’re not doing this or you are unable to do this, doContinue Reading ›

I mentioned in my earlier post A Quick Chat About Netbooks that I had had problems with both my Eee PC and a new MacBook ; so here, as promised, are the details of my circular journey from netbook to netbook. When Jas interviewed me at FOWA I as using an Eee PC 901 andContinue Reading ›

Volkswagen have had consistently brilliant TV adverts for as long as I can remember, but Night Driving is one of their finest. The ad is beautifully shot, and Richard Burton’s narration of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas works so well with “ Don’t Blow It” from Cliff Martinez’s Solaris soundtrack that it’s as ifContinue Reading ›

If there was an election called now in the UK I honestly do not know who I would vote for, and to be honest I don’t actually believe that it would make any significant difference which party won. The same cannot be said for the US election; I know exactly who I would vote forContinue Reading ›