Anyone got any evidence that proves or disproves that people HAVE or THINK they have a problem with the amount of time they have and the explosion of choices they’re faced with everyday? Ta Mucho

Famous Rob’s post on Live Earth reminded me of something I was pondering yesterday. I’ve been slightly confused about HOW much the average Joe in the UK really cares about environmental issues. Not least since a recent poll suggests that most of Britons believe the scientific community of still debating the role of humans in…

Despite the training for last year’s swimming challenge REALLY hurting, I haven’t stopped training. I haven’t been killing myself, but I haven’t taken it easy either. Since it’s the only thing I’m good at it would be daft not to do it.  Now it’s time to push it again. Time for a new challenge. To…

Sorry, change of plan. It’s nearly ready, but it’s nor fair to set anyone loose on it until Rob has given given his feedback. Soon as he’s done we’re on.

Righto, we know what we’re doing on Thursday. Seems Simon’s come though for us and picked the Cotton House (directions here) which is a hop skip and jump away from Picadilly station. People will start arriving from 7/7.30 ish. See you there. By the way, while I promise to set the School of the Web…

Here’s a simple recipe for a quick, light and very tasty Greek meal. For one of those warm evenings when you don’t want much and you want it quick. You need: Large tub of good Greek yoghurt 2 cloves garlic Half a large cucumber Teaspoon of chopped dill or mint. Pour the yohurt into a…

Next Northern Planning catch up is Thursday 5th July in Manchester. Simon’s going to arrange the venue and will update us in due course – he’s currently sulking after Rob criticised his efforts last time we did Manchester. I’m sure he’ll do better, and since he shaved his head, he looks well hard so –…

It was really nice in the pub after Interesting to meet some people. You all know who you are, but I’m just going to talk about Adrian Gunn Wilson right now. He manfully ignored the fact he spoke first and taught us all how to chop a log. He works for Howies and his talk…

Or at least thoughts on Interesting. I wont’ go on about the speakers individually, since other people are doing it far better than I could, and the videos will be up soon anyway. Everyone told me something new, and while it wasn’t officially a day about work, having my head that full of new stuff…

I’m kicking myself right now, as I seem to have misplaced my notes. So I’ll muddle through this last bit and hope parts 1 and 2 make up for it. First up after lunch was Jeremy Ettinghausen on how Penguin innovated their traditional brand for a digital age. I really liked this talk, especially the…