The final deadline for the Account Planning School of the Web project is looming. Just to confirm, deadline is 11.59 pm (GMT) 6th August. Just thought I’d check if there were any more questions, or if anyone desperately needs more time. Let me know. Otherwise, I’m looking forward to your entries (absolutely no pun intended).

I don’t just mean that Celine Dion makes me want to cut my ears off with a rusty scalpel, or how much songs are associated with memory…although both are true. Rather, there are complex reactions going on in the body when we listen to music, and an array of physical effects. Up tempo guitar music…

Since I get impatient with something when it’s not right it’s no wonder I’ve always been interested in John Mcenroe. He was a relentless perfectionist and incredibly hard on himself. If someone hit a forehand past him, you wouldn’t see him acknowledging the good shot, immediately he’d be berating himself for some mistake that ALLOWED…

On a more constructive note than the last post, it’s time to think about getting back to more planning basics. I’m promising this on the blog to make sure I actually have to do it…. In the next few weeks, I’m  going to get through as much about research as I can, then we’ll move…

As I’ve mentioned before that I have more than a passing interest in economics it won’t come as a surprise that I’ve enjoyed ‘Why most things fail’ by Steve Ormerod. Amongst other things he extends the idea that most of the theory you get in economic, and dare I say, marketing books, bears little relation…

It’s less than a month until the ‘swim a mile in the sea while not looking too stupid next to your nephews’ challenge and it’s going sort of OK, despite the fact it’s distance swimming, which is not something my body likes doing. The first few weeks were not easy. My body loves doing a…

Every silver lining has a cloud….. Insomnia Cursed Big Brother The constant rain The annoying music you get on the Sky TV guide HGV’s overtaking each other Spam emails offering to make me thin or hard Badly made tea. In the pot I tell you! IT people who think it’s MY job to support THEM…

Why Most Things Fail by Paul Ormerod. The daily re-runs of the X-Files on UK Living (or the big conspiracy episodes at least). God it was good. Mozzarella in salad. Heroes coming to BBC2 (missed the start on Sci Fi channel and had to wait). Poached eggs on toast at weekends. Jenny Yeardley. Old friend…

I bought the Mail on Sunday on, well, Sunday. This was due to Prince’s controversial deal with them, not some new political allegiance, or predilection for ‘blue rinse’ and wistfulness for the Empire. I did fleetingly enjoy reading something I disagreed with though. I’m a Guardian/Observer type and while it’s a useful way to get…

The ever-wise Scamp hosted a great conversation about Richard Dawkin’s God Delusion recently. There’s some interesting stuff, but I just wanted to add something here which takes it somewhere else. For the record, while I think he brilliantly argues for the improbability of a creator that made everything just for us, and the detail he…