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admin2 on 02 18, 2010 | No Comments
Before I tell you about this video - another I found lurking in my office - I should tell you about something stupid I nearly did.
A year or so ago I got my trusty partner Al to make me list of
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admin2 on 01 27, 2010 | No Comments
Some spend their money on fine wines. Others go cruising or skiing. Still yet others invest in rare motor cars, paintings and antiques.
But what money I have left after my last divorce (score:
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admin2 on 08 28, 2009 | No Comments
Today I read of the death of a Malaysian filmmaker I had never heard of before.
Her name was Yasmin Ahmad. She made a very short (3 minute) very touching film not long ago, to be seen at http:/
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admin2 on 08 23, 2009 | No Comments
Pimlico Plumbers founder Charlie Mullins says the apprenticeship scheme fronted by Lord Sugar has wasted millions of pounds and left thousands of young people out of work.
The programme has cos
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admin2 on 08 23, 2009 | No Comments
My friend Andy Owen, speaker, copywriter extraordinaire and good pal sent me this:
"The budget should be balanced and the Treasury should be refilled.
Public debt should be reduced and the a
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admin2 on 07 15, 2009 | No Comments
It's no secret that the newspaper industry is in trouble. Advertising revenue is going down as fast as a well-paid call girl.
It's the internet what done it.
Now that everyone expects to get
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admin2 on 06 30, 2009 | No Comments
I only know two Donald Trump jokes.
One is a book he "wrote" called The Art of the Deal, which was dreadful. The joke was on me because I have a horrible feeling I bought it.
The other is ab
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Ham on 05 15, 2009 | No Comments
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
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Ham 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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Ham on 04 9, 2009 | No Comments
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
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