If, like me, you have one or two planning craft skills but are finding you need to catch up really fast on things with a bit more a digital focus (and let's face it, who isn't? Not least when planning for anything that's likely to involve the web, which is pretty much everythin these days,…

Perversely for an odd looking bald man with no dress sense, I've spent much of the last two years talking to women about their hair and how they feel about how they look. I've looked at umpteen pieces of communication from beauty brands. I guess you could say that if you need a planner to…

Today I woke up at 7, instead of the usual 6am alarm. I had a bath, rather than stumble in for a super quick shower. I had a long cuddle with my baby boy, rather than leave him asleep. And then drove 40 minutes to start work here. Rather than a an hour to an hour…

It's Friday morning. One last push 'till the weekend. Can you feel the finish line? Here's something to help us along…    

I like this post on simplicity from love, wise words (and always happy to see promotion of In the Loop).

Interesting report here that alledges advertising as the source of all ills in society, driving all sorts of social evils, mostly overconsumption. So…..is advertising the cause of all ills society or a simply a mirror to it?

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For all those who think the internet it a bad thing I give you penciltalk.org. A whole corner of the web for pencil lovers. You would never have thought there was so much to do with the humble pencil, but there you go. Thanks to the internet, it doesn't matter what your passion, is, or…

There's a few very good books, the odd telly program (like this) but nothing that grips you in the visceral way it should. There's nothing more amazing, weird and jaw dropping than science when it's presented right. For example, everything you see is mostly empty space, if you removed the empty space in every single…