The other day I finished a proof copy of a book called The Return Man by V.M.Zigo. It is due to be published in March and I can wholeheartedly recommend it. It is a book set in a future where a mystery virus has created zombies, but the outbreak has been containe, albeit to a [...]
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Smashing Ideas
October 27th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Life
Today I finished reading The Smashing Idea Book, which I got through Amazon’s Vine programme. One of the many little pleasures of Vine is that I get to read things I would not normally have the chance to. There is no way I would fork out over £20 on a text book in a field [...]
Bad History
October 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
I recently read a book called Bad History: How We Got The Past Wrong by Emma Marriott. It was another of those books I got through Amazon’s ‘Vine’ programme. Here is what I wrote about it:
One year on
October 17th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Life
This time last year we were living out of boxes, getting ready to move house. It doesn’t feel like a whole year (well 51 weeks today) since we moved here. Today I spent a very large part of the day moving my desk about 2 metres. It took so long because I had to take [...]
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Minipigs in paperback
October 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Life
Back in February I wrote about a book called Oink! My Life With Minipigs by local author Matt Whyman. It is now out in paperback with a new title Pig In The Middle. I still haven’t got round to reading it – all those freebies from Amazon keep piling up, which I won’t complain about. [...]
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Smashing Logo Design
August 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
Smashing Logo Design: The Art of Creating Visual Identities by Gareth Hardy is another book I got through Amazon’s Vine programme. Here is what I wrote about it:
I’m feeling lucky
August 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
I recently read a book called I’m Feeling Lucky: the Confessions of Google Employee 59 by Douglas Edwards. No point explaining what it is about, the title sums it up quite nicely, but for what it is worth it is the erstwhile brand manager of Google telling the story of his five or so years [...]
Burden of proof
June 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
I finished the book I was reading this evening and even though it was just a first-person account of somebody’s years working at Google I had a good laugh right at the end. The reason is that it was an advance proof copy so not exactly the same as the version that will be on [...]
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Heinz outsauced
May 26th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Life
The latest bit of churnalism in the Guardian is about Heinz coming almost last in a blind taste test of tomato ketchups. Interesting because it undermines two brands simultaneously: Heinz and Malcolm Gladwell.
Lost in translation
May 23rd, 2011 · 4 Comments · Life
How strange. For some reason I have read very few English translations of foreign books. Of the thousands of books I have read only a handful have been translations. I have not read Tolstoy or Proust and would not be surprised if I had read less than a dozen ‘foreign’ books: a couple of Voltaires, [...]
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