Tag: Life

  • Guardian.jpgBlame Waldman

    Simon Waldman, the big boss at Guardian Unlimited, thinks we should start to assemble a kind of community history of the UK Internet business on the occasion of its sort-of-tenth…

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  • Wolff on the war

    Execellent writing on war frenzy in the American media from Michael Wolff in The Guardian. ‘The story now is about the war as a fighting-man event, not a political event.…

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  • It’s been ten years

    Thanks to Neil McIntosh for linking to this piece about Mosaic’s tenth birthday. It is my fervent ambition that one day I will be required, like Jim Clark, to say…

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  • Guardian.jpgWars, real and virtual

    This week, in my column for The Guardian’s web site, I finally caved in and wrote about the war. We can’t take it for granted that our increasing interconnectedness and…

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  • Butterfly about to emerge

    I learn from The Guardian that Richard Wilson’s Butterfly is nearly finished and this Sunday evening at 7.00 he’ll be talking about it (among other things) in a panel discussion…

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  • Domestic dilemma

    Billie is painting, Olly is at a friend’s house for tea, Juliet is waiting in an interminable queue at Watford General Hospital to see her consultant (our third baby is…

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  • Alien!

    Juliet’s latest column at Tigerchild is up. This week, with seven weeks until the birth of our third child, she’s having a G.E. Kane moment.

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  • And on… and on… A plug

    When he was UK MD of Ariston, Giuliano Gnagnati brought you those mesmerising TV ads (“Ariston… and on… and on…”). Ariston was an obscure Italian brand ? sales and brand…

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  • McDecline

    When McDonalds lost the disastrous McLibel case I used to say that it wouldn’t be the greens or the anti-globalisers that’d bring down the fast food giant but much more…

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  • Dead Herring

    In 1993 and 94, when I was learning about the net and about how to run a business and all the scary money stuff, I discovered a weird American business…

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