Google [conceived while lying in bed one night, trying – in vain – to sleep.] – with apologies to John Betjeman Whatever will rhyme with Google? There’s only the Scottish name ‘Dougal’; Why! in Scots I shall try With my words to get by, IfRead more…
This debacle (for it is a debacle) about MPs’ expenses has left everyone practically foaming at the mouth. How can so many so-called professionals make ‘mistakes’ with their finances – financial acumen being one of the things for which they are supposed to be employed?Read more…
NANS. No, not those sweet, silver-haired old ladies we like to call Granny. NANS. Short for, “Not Another Networking Site!” Help. My life has become a constant battle with keeping myself* up to date: I am already at online interactivity overload. Just when I thinkRead more…
I got a fright the other day as I was walking down the toiletries aisle of the supermarket looking for some girlie sanitary products. There it was, emblazoned across the shelf, in large bold type, a sign advertising: “Digital Tampons”. What?! For one scary momentRead more…
In this blog post I’m going to be discussing some of the reasons why (if any) there are certain people on this planet that just seem to go OUT OF THEIR WAY to look unattractive. The opinions expressed in this particular post are purely personal, so IRead more…
…No, not the song by Radiohead. I refer to those communication “experts” who have, for mind-baffling reasons, seen it fit to allow the virtual eradication of the comma from the written word in the English language. These days, commas in text are about as sparseRead more…
I LOVE supermarkets. They’re an experiment in social behaviour just sitting right in front of you, awaiting analysis. Recently, I’ve come to the conclusion that there is a direct correlation between poorness and the number of loaves of white bread in the supermarket trolley. ARead more…
As a pedant and a lexophile, I have been increasingly troubled lately by what I see as the sad disappearance of simple words like ‘yes’ and ‘no’. Especially in the world of business. And in these humble words’ place, a new proliferation of polysyllabic verbalRead more…
Media fascinates me. It’s interesting to see where we’re going next in terms of the way we communicate. But two facets of the modern media really irk me. One is this perma-gravitation towards everything being “online”, and the second, following on from the first, isRead more…
Back in March of this year… I have just finished watching the BBC Six O’clock News for the first time in about a year, and all I can say is…”What???!!” It seems that times have changed both in broadcasting and in the way we speakRead more…
