I really wanted to write some stuff today, but the day from Hades put a stop to that. I wanted to post about: My visit to the Howies shop My first visit to the swimming pool for two weeks AND a spot of going back to being a suit today – both showing the danger…

Following on from some thoughts on how to select one, here’s some pointers on your respective roles. When it comes to quant, there’s a big difference between ‘full service’ and ‘field and tab’. Full service is doing pretty much everything from your initial brief to the their final presentation of findings and analysis. A word…

Here’s lazy Kato, being, well, lazy. I want to come back as a cat.

I’ll be loitering in London for a bit next Thursday (4th Oct) afternoon if anyone’s around for coffee and stuff. Predictably I’ll probably be in the Breakfast Club.

Rob’s post about that Vodaphone Groundhog Day ad reminded me of why we’re all doomed to repeat our mistakes. And the value of doing research with people in real time, at the event. It’s sort of obvious we’ll avoid repeating something that went badly wrong, but it’s just not that simple, since our memories are…

In case you missed it, Boney M ended up beating the Smiths 2-0. Each vote was close, but history will record that there was only one winner. It got a bit heated at one point, after The Smiths camp pulled an ‘Obi Wan Kenobi strategy’ – "You can’t win Darth, if you strike me down…

Gareth’s done his feedback for his Account Planning School of th Web project. Not only a stupendous job, his comments are a great refresher for useful for most of us too I reckon.

Most of the world now lives in city, so it would be very easy to look for some connections between the brand you’re working on and the oppression of too much noise. That’s why I like this article from The Observer. It tells us that some city sounds are actually welcome, comforting and soothing. Like…

Sometimes you do take the easy route, take the short cut. Who will know? It will turn out okay, so what’s the point? But sometimes it’s worth doing it right. Like when you make tea, quick boil of the kettle, swill the bag in the mug with water, dash of milk. Done. Easy. So much…

A friend of mine was moaning about the inevitable victory of Boney M over the Smiths. He made a good point about how bad is really good. The Smiths should lose, it’s what they were about. If they won, they’d be popular which would be plain wrong. So a vote for Boney M is actually…