Ham on 07 28, 2009 | 35 Comments
Here are tributes to Yasmin Ahmad from her fans, friends, fellow industry colleagues from all over the globe. We have had hundreds of special tributes to Yasmin at our Tribute sub-site, however, if yo
Read MoreHam on 07 23, 2009 | 22 Comments
Yasmin has left us. Yasmin Ahmad passed away here at about 11.25pm, Saturday 26th July 2009. WHAT HAPPENED: Just after 3pm Thursday July 23: Yasmin Ahmad collapses while making a presen
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One of my colleagues wrote to an internet firm misnamed Articulate to ask three very simple questions. This reply came back from some wench in Customer Disservice: I've personally reviewed y
Read MoreHam on 04 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
For over ten years, at varying intervals, I wrote a column for Marketing magazine. Such are the vagaries of human memory that some people still think I do – even though I haven’t for nearly
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A fireman is polishing his fire engine outside the fire station when he notices a little girl next door in a little red cart with little ladders hung on the side and a garden hose tightly coiled i
Read MoreHam on 03 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
Several people commented on my last piece, and I agreed with much of what everyone said. God, what a spineless creature I am. In that piece I also meant to comment on what Rezbi wrote in his bl
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One incensed Scots reader has objected to my comparing The Great Toad to an excellent dish - the Haggis - which has unlike the the Toad brought pleasure to millions. So I will say nothing about
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Twenty years or more ago, David Ogilvy sent me the draft of a speech he was planning to make in France. It contained more or less the following. "Our world is divided into two warring camps.
Read MoreHam on 03 7, 2009 | No Comments
Yesterday I had lunch with my partner in a firm that runs events in a few countries, together with a lady friend he wanted me to meet. The excuse was to discuss an idea she has had for an online
Read MoreHam on 03 2, 2009 | No Comments
Last Tuesday morning I lurched off the plane from New York and whizzed off to the City to make a speech for the Market Research Society. This was not deliberate; just bad planning by this old fool
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