In Ethiopia they say that the grandparents speak Italian, the parents speak Russian and the kids speak English, based on the world ‘powers’ that have influenced this country for three generations. Earlier this week on Wednesday saw the 76th anniversary of the country’s annexation by Mussolini’s Italy… on the same day that the World Economic [...]
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Spending too much time in front of a screen?… go to a Cat Cafe in Tokyo
It’s February, the weather is sh*t, the media bombards us with stories about certain days being the most depressing of the year and mobiles, laptops, iPads, cinemas and TVs drag us into their screens of otherworldliness. The evenings are long, there are no spontaneous outdoor activities and if it wasn’t for sex we’d all go [...]
Mayhem, merging, mutating and maturing at the ME Awards
There were three big events in London this week, Tony Pearce and Graeme Ferguson’s Centurions networking event on Tuesday, the annual ME Awards on Wednesday and the MASSIVE LBi rave in Brick Lane the following evening. In days gone by I would have got the train to London on Tuesday with a change of clothing [...]
Live blogging and tweeting change the face of (boring) industry events
The industry event has been a feature of business since homo erectus sold his soul to become a biped, and sometimes nothing seems to have changed since those cave days. If you’re of a certain age you’ll know what I mean. Interminably boring, expensive, pompous, time-wasting events that are designed to pouf the egos of [...]
