Okay, not very scientific but the first business day is done and it’s been a bit of a success. Only ten email messages in my inbox and lots of the things on my written list already completed. I did get a lot of Twitter activity today and a friend Ben Afia recommended I look up [...]
Filed under: Living without an iPhone | Tagged: Ben Afia, David Allen, Getting Things Done | Leave a Comment »
Okay. the first day of my new era. Life without an iPhone 4 and it all seems pretty smooth so far. Sadly I haven’t got my phone number sorted yet so can’t receive texts, but have managed to redirect all phone calls from the old number to the new. A clever feature of iPhones. Hmm. [...]
Filed under: Living without an iPhone | Tagged: iPhone 4, iTorch, Shazam, Sky Sports App | Leave a Comment »
Probably not the best start to the day when I discovered that I have managed to lose the micro sim converter that I bought earlier in the week in preparation for the switchover tomorrow AM. This is the little device that you need to make the iPhone 4 sim (which is essentially a cut down [...]
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We all have too much stuff in our life. Too many possessions, too many media choices and too many ways of accessing any piece of available information from anywhere in the world. And I’ve had enough, so i’m making a change to the way I run my life and the first stand will be against [...]
Filed under: branding, Living without an iPhone | Tagged: iPhone, Living without an iPhone, Phones 4U, Samsung GT-E2121b | 3 Comments »
I’m a bit of an Apple fan and believed they could do no wrong, but their battle with Adobe over Flash is killing them slowly and by a thousand small steps. I don’t want Flash on my iPhone as I agree it may well slow it down even further, but I do want a [...]
Filed under: brand values, branding | Tagged: Apple, Firefox, Google Chrome, http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/, Tim Garratt | 10 Comments »
Some of you may have seen this. 2 million people have already watched this, so there is a good chance that you have. But it is truly brilliant and inspirational. Firstly because Sir Ken is very funny in the speech. And secondly, he talks so passionately about creativity in children and how we have spent [...]
Filed under: branding | Tagged: Do schools kill creativity?, Rushcliffe School, Sir Ken Robinson | 3 Comments »
I have just been leafletted with a flyer promising the installation of 25m2 of solar panels on my roof for £500 against a normal price of £14,149. It sounds to good to be true. Because I think it actually is. With this deal, you don’t benefit from the feed in tariffs that could be as [...]
Filed under: Economics | Tagged: Feed in tariff, http://www.integr8x.co.uk/, lower electricity bills, Solar panels | 7 Comments »
James Lambert is not a name that many of you will be familiar with. I wasn’t earlier until I heard him on Radio Five Live. But he is the natural successor to our very own Eddie the Eagle – and he is 45 years old. There is hope for all of us yet. Another plucky [...]
Filed under: branding | Tagged: Alan Donald Jones, Alex Winterhalde, British Ski Jumping, Eddie the Eagle, James Lambert, Jason Weller | 10 Comments »
JJB sports are as good an example as any that changing a logo changes nothing. All the papers were this week reporting that they were closing a further 45 stores that weren’t viable. For me, you may as well close all of them as they are all pretty unpleasant in terms of a shopping experience [...]
Filed under: branding | Tagged: DW, JD Sports, JJB Sports | 2 Comments »
