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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The Map of Time
May 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Life
Just finished a book called The Map of Time by Felix Palma.  It is due to be published on June 9th though it is not entirely new: it was first published in 2008 in Spanish, but this is the English translation of it. A bit strange that it has taken so long to come out [...]
More audiobooks
May 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
I have been listening to more audiobooks, both via Amazon’s Vine programme, both with a TV connection. One was a Torchwood story, the other a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories. Interestingly the Holmes stories were read by Benedict Cumberbatch who plays the modern day Holmes on TV. My first experience with audiobooks (Bill Bryson: At [...]
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
April 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Life
The other night I finished listening to At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson.  This is an audiobook I got through Amazon’s Vine program. It is a book I would almost certainly have bought myself at some point, although I would have bought the paper version. It was an interesting experience [...]
Regarding Ducks and Universes
April 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
Today I finished reading a book called Regarding Ducks and Universes by Neve Maslakovic, another one from Amazon’s Vine programme. This what I thought about it:
Have you heard of the categorisation of political activists into...