Repositioning Slough
Just arrived back in the UK, where I’m visiting friends and family for a week over the holidays. Much amused to see Slough Trading Estate advertising at Heathrow’s passport control. No doubt trying to rebuild…
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Typepad outage – bloggers bail
Typepad went down for about 18 hours on Friday. Many bloggers are now bailing on the service – Neville Hobson has been planning his for some time and is moving to WordPress (see his new…
You know your agency is getting big when…
…people in your own firm start giving you business cards. This just happened to me. Seemed normal during our conversation to swap cards, but now I think about it, it’s certainly a milestone. I’m even…
Sony Bravia KLVS26A10 26“ WEGA HD-Ready Flat Panel TV – Initial impressions
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is by tradition a shopping-fest where all the stores slash their prices and shoppers stampede for bargains. Not to be left out, I hightailed it down to join the…
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving folks.
Thanksgiving – not really an export
I overhead this exchange on a local radio station the other day: Presenter: “I wonder how Thanksgiving is celebrated in other countries. I mean, in Japan, do they have turkey sushi rolls or something?†Co-host:…
Yes, but is it art?
The entrance lobby of our office block in San Francisco is decorated with corporate art. Every six weeks or so, the paintings rotate to other buildings. It’s a good idea since it keeps the entrance…
Relocating to new offices
We’re relocating our offices in San Francisco to bigger, custom-built premises in January. We’ll still be downtown in the thick of the action, but need larger offices to provide room for future expansion, and to…
Cultural Odyssey #1
Irish dramatist, George Bernard Shaw famously said ‘England and America are two countries separated by a common language.’ I often get asked what it’s like being a Brit working here in San Francisco. The truth…
Halloween
Halloween is a big deal here in the US. People decorate their houses with fake spiders’ webs, plastic pumpkins and put illuminated skeletons in their window. It always catches me by surprise. Halloween is right…