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Planning coffee morning in Sheffield on Tues 7pm View Comments

In London Russell et al do coffee at 7am.  Further North planners gather for beer at a rather more amenable 7pm. The sporadic Northern planning Summit is this Tues at 7pm starting in Runaway Girl, Sheffield.  Andrew, Gemma, Rob, Joel are booked [and their agents paid handsomely] and are probably practising their lines now in [...]

Doodle View Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } , originally uploaded by JamesB. I’m playing around with omnigraffle, gliffy etc.  And they’re great but you can’t beat drawing freehand initially: it’s quicker, you can get far more done and it makes me [...]

Camp Origami View Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Camp Origami, originally uploaded by JamesB. More here. Camping. The surge of popularity for sleeping under the stars and getting closer to nature fits so well with the move toward inconspicuous consumption, our desire [...]

Going down… View Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } down the hatch 2*, originally uploaded by annie_everywhere. Part of Anne’s set on the Under Water Hotel – a hut in the ocean and possibly the smallest guesthouse in the world – one of [...]

Not here, over there… View Comments

I’m mostly living at Stickrattling which was meant to be a place to post the odd ditty about advertising and planning type stuff but has become well, a home of sorts.   In particular my attempt at Russell Davies’ Planning School of the Web exercise 7 set by the uber smart Grant McCracken has been fun, [...]

Elliot Elvis Boardwell View Comments

Elliot Elvis Boardwell, bn. 15 June 2006 Other Elliots:Missy ElliotElliott GouldElliot NessBilly ElliotElliot SmithTS Elliot Good company. addendum: Realised I only had 1 day to go before registering the boy [you get 6 weeks] and on a bit of  whim outside the registry office he got Elvis as a middle name.  Woo hoo.

1.0 -> 2.0 View Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Web 2.0 – according to Second Life, this is the difference in 1.0 and 2.0, originally uploaded by pinhole. Kinda sums it up for me.

Wonderment View Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } elephant in the rain, originally uploaded by annie_everywhere. The Sultan’s Elephant Theatre showed the power of the magical, how the desire to be amazed by the extraordinary doesn’t have to be through the lens [...]

R&R View Comments

4 days in Les Get, France skiing the Port du Soleil in what appears to be the best snow conditions for years.

Come, hang out, talk, be my friend, do stuff View Comments

It’s [tech] conference walla season again.  And people are getting all hippy about it.  Even Metcalfe and Coates [and I single them out because I like offending them and also because I can't be arsed to find other people to back up my flimsy argument rant] are getting into the sandal wearing brotherly love thing [...]