Q: How do you take a 3000 year art form, freely practiced by millions and turn it into something new, proprietary and lucrative?
A: Simplify it and add heat exhaustion.
I love food. Not in a pig-like ‘swimming in food’ indulgent way, I enjoy the pleasure of cooking, eating and socialising around food. Food has [...]
Ok, so I know I’ve bitched about the quality of Aer Lingus food in the past and maybe also about their tardiness.
But, you know, when it really counts, Aer Lingus absolutely deliver. Above and way beyond expectation.
Let me share my story with you.
Today I was due to catch a flight from Shannon [...]
A Little Secret
I have to admit something, please keep it quiet. Come closer, I’ll whisper…
“LATELY, I HAVE BEEN ALL PLAN AND NO EXECUTION!!”
Its a damn nuisance, every time I am about to get going on something, life conspires to really slow me down, in the form of pesky childhood illnesses messing with [...]
It was a great pleasure to facilitate the recent Agile Coach Camp USA (twitter hashtag #accus) open space. During my regular walkabout to ensure all the sessions were happily bubbling along, I happened on an intriguingly titled session called ‘Steal My Frustration’ convened by @azagile (Michael Kutch). My observations on that session are contained in [...]
‘If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants’ – Sir Issac Newton
I have been thinking about this for a few weeks and it has been truly humbling.
No one ever got anywhere without help. Every step of our journey through this world has been aided and abetted [...]
I have been following the BBC reporting of the Israeli killing of 9 activists on board the Gaza blockade busting flotilla. 9 people were shot and killed by Israeli forces. The Israelis claim there were guns on the ship – none have been found. Now they seem to be saying they had ‘reports’ there were [...]
Peter Mandelson, more recently Lord Mandelson , an unelected cabinet minister in Gordon Brown’s waste of space Labour government today announced the row over the sell off of the UK Royal Mail business was making the task of finding a buyer much harder.
It would appear that Mandelson would not only want us to accept [...]
Barack Obama made history. That is undisputed and worthy of celebration.
But what is this fiasco about the order in which world leaders get to visit him?
On 5th Feb, the BBC reports that Tony Blair met President Obama. Other media mongers extended this as a oneupmanship against Gordon Brown.
Today , the [...]
@twitter...now!
- @QualityFrog you should blog about this experience. You are a tracer bullet through all the BS of Business 1.0 21 mins ago
- Staines has changed its name to 'Staines Upon Thames'. That helps. I wondered exactly where the stains were. Shirts, teeth? 24 mins ago
- shhaaatttappp baastard!! #PaulChoudry on #comedyGala 37 mins ago
- @julietjacques can you do both? maybe use the run as warm up for the football that may not happen? 11 hours ago
- RT @lisacrispin: It's not too late to register for all or part (it's agile!) of #SFAgile2012 http://t.co/nedPH3Ss Use your best Real Opt ... 23 hours ago
A little nugget...
QOTD:
"What women and psychologists call `dropping your armor', we call
"baring your neck."Bundles of Thoughts
What Folks Have Said
Words I Use Alot!
Posts I’m Fiddling With
- Improv, Forex Trading and Agile - Techniques for Cope with Uncertainty
- Dumb Democracy

