I used to live between two pubs and directly above a butcher’s shop, so during the day there would be the smell of fresh meat, and during the night this would mix with the stench of alcohol and creep in to my dreams. I often had dreams of cows and pigs drinking their snouts off in the pubs. It was a disturbing time to say the least.

But what annoyed me more than the lack of sleep due to nightmarish Read the rest of this entry »

Some people believe that technology will ultimately destroy us, while others believe that when the natural end comes – something that came for the dinosaurs, apparently, and that will inevitably come for us – it will be the one thing capable of saving and protecting us from civilization-ending doom.

Technology and its infiltration in to every facet of our daily lives is the subject of discussion at the following link.

It’s an impossible debate, of course, one fraught with Read the rest of this entry »

Customer service isn’t everyone’s strength–to put it lightly. In fact, some companies’ idea of customer service consists of a harrowing (and sometimes frighteningly) bored voice on the end of a line which sounds like it couldn’t care less…sometimes it barely even sounds human; in the worst cases it may even be automated, forcing the user to undergo a tortuous hour or more of button pushing, sometimes resulting in the line going dead…

But not everyone is like that, of course. Read the rest of this entry »

Marketing, as I am sure you’re well aware, is the holy-grail of business practice. You’re more likely to get the blood out of a stone than get a company to spill all the details on their views on marketing and advertising. Yes, they’ll tell you a version of the truth, but it will have been edited to the extent that it’s more a distant cousin of the source material than a direct representation. Which begs the question–why should they have Read the rest of this entry »