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What I do all day (3) 30 Apr 2013 | 08:21 pm
Recent beet.tv interview with me talking about audiences and video. http://www.beet.tv/2013/04/groupm-xaxis.html
What I do all Day 29 Apr 2013 | 05:21 pm
Good video from a recent panel I participated on with Rubicon and the other agency trade desks at AdWeek Europe. Well moderated and good discussion. Worth a look. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyda...
Book Review: The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson 5 Jan 2013 | 12:18 am
Let me say right upfront that I absolutely loved this book. As someone who has spent 3 months living in Chicago, it was fascinating to read about the history, especially presented in this historical f...
Book Review: Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes 5 Jan 2013 | 12:14 am
Wow. What a fantastic book. I could not put it down. I’m not really an avid reader of history or war books, but was travelling in Cambodia at the time, and had read lots of books about that country, w...
Book Review: Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President by Ron Suskind 5 Jan 2013 | 12:09 am
If you liked the West Wing as much as I did, then you will love this. Suskind has a great writing style, he manages to (pretty much) articular often complicated concepts very clearly and in a way that...
Japanese Light Trucks 23 Oct 2012 | 05:15 pm
Japan is great. I was very lucky to go there for work many years ago. More than any other country I have been to, it is like landing on an alien planet. Almost nothing is familiar, the entire countr...
Why we Don’t See More Aliens on Earth 17 Jun 2012 | 05:57 pm
So today apparently is the day that the Voyager space probe launched in 1977 will reach the edge of our solar system and become the first man made object to travel into interstellar space. Thats pret...
Shard 16 Jun 2012 | 03:50 pm
Over the past year we in London have all been watching the shard take shape. I have a splendid view of proceedings from my office window, so have watched it on a daily basis. From the angle that I loo...
Honesty at Nokia 14 Jun 2012 | 04:48 pm
Firstly, my apologies for the radio silence. I am going to try and put a bit more effort into my blog again. I have recently come across this blog post on the WSJ, and was absolutely fascinated by th...
Lucky Miss for the Lego Man! 28 Jan 2012 | 09:36 am
Of course I feel lucky that Earth did not get hit by the near-miss asteroid recently. But frankly, I’m also glad that the Canadian lego man with the flag didn’t get wiped out!
