I don’t pay much attention to advertising, especially TV adverts. Years of resenting the intrusion of advertising into the shows I watch have conditioned me to pay very little attention. Whenever I select a show to watch, I simultaneously select a second show to have as an alternate. By using the ‘previous channel’ button on […]
You know what I’m getting tired of hearing? It’s the phrase “times like these” in advertisements on radio and TV. Here we are, in a big old nasty recession and the businesses who are in part responsible for creating the conditions in which many of us became overextended due to the raw commercialism in our […]
Well, business has been booming. In the past month I’ve been in Alaska, Arizona, California, Michigan and New York working. I’m just a little bit tired of flying. OK, I’m a lot tired of flying. I can’t recall ever being quite as jet-lagged over such a long time as I have recently. Anyway, it’s good […]
Sorry for the absence from the ‘airwaves’. I’ve spent the past week in the Alaskan bush on a consulting engagement. The very frozen north. Minus 30 to 50; high winds; blowing snow and lots of dark. The worst part was the trip back - 36 hours of airplanes and airports, none of which are particularly […]
One of the guilty pleasures I’ve come to enjoy is a TV programme. Now that in and of itself is an unusual thing for me to say. As I’ve said before, I’m not much for TV. The networks are ridiculous, the ads are intrusive and most of the content is just not of much interest […]
As I said I would do, I watched this week’s episode of The Office last night. Again I was most unimpressed. Here are the notes that I took during the show:
It’s 6 minutes into the show - I’m already looking at the programme guide to find something else to watch.
Why are all the characters suddlenly […]
I look back at the days I’ve posted items in this blog and I notice that as time has gone forward, I’ve had more and more gaps in posting. That got me to thinking about why that might be. At first I thought it might be a form of writers block. I just didn’t have […]
