I’m having one of those manic weeks and simply haven’t had time to blog, even though I have stacks to write about. I’ll be back soon, I promise! Incidentally, it’s only two weeks to go until we come home to Australia for our Christmas holiday – yippee! Tweet

I have read some of the books on the list already. Some of them (eg. White Noise by Don DeLillo or Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier), I have read recently and I will not re-read them. Others (eg. On the Road by Jack Kerouac or The Lord of the Rings trilogy), I might choose to [...]

Media Week covers the commercial side of media, writing for media agencies (a type of advertising agency that plans where to put the ads and buys them) and media owners. As deputy news editor, I cover a wide range of stories but I have a specific reporting focus on the outdoor sector (billboards and the [...]

I have a new project to read the one hundred greatest books of the twentieth century (thank you to Betsi for the inspiration). Please see my new blog dedicated to this purpose, Century of Books. Tweet

On my recent trip to the US, I made a new friend and was inspired by her project to read the top one hundred books of the twentieth century. I have taken her original list and modified it according to my own tastes and ideas, along with some reference to other published lists and also [...]

One of the many tragedies of the Iraq war was the looting of the Baghdad Museum, regarded as one of the best in the world. It’s not often that you get to read some good news from that part of the world but this article offered some real hope. An American army colonel, Matthew Bogdanos, [...]

Much as I love Paris and Prague, I do love living in London as well. We’re having a cold snap at the moment – it doesn’t get much above zero most days and we’ve finally had to turn the heating on – but we’re enjoying blue skies and winter sunshine. I much prefer this sort [...]

Further to my earlier blog entry about how drinking coffee is good for you, here is a new one. According to this report in The Guardian, decaffeinated coffee is bad for your heart because it raises levels of “bad” cholesterol. Tweet

I was sitting at my desk yesterday, working on an analysis piece on digital advertising panels and preparing for a quiet evening at home. It was about 5.45pm and there were just three of us left in the office when the phone rang for my colleague Kevin. I heard him say, “no, sorry I have [...]

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