Everyone that I have ever worked with should read this article over at ‘Creating Passionate Users’. I have long advocated that powerpoint and other linear presentation forms stifle the creativity of a presenter and hide the real messages. Especially pay attention to the sections about testing your slides for suckage, and putting each slide on [...]

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I recently included a chilled out version of one of the tracks from Dualizm by Jori Hulkkonen on a mix cd (mail me for details) - the track was called ‘Lo Fiction’ and the more original version is included on this album. After using that track, I hunted down this album, and it was well [...]

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Watched Hostage during my trip to Paris - this is the new Bruce Willis movie where he plays a hostage negotiatior, who loses the plot and ends up being the sherriff of a small town. Its obvious whats going to happen next, as a what seems like a small time robbery goes horribly wrong, and ends [...]

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Have a meeting tomorrow (Monday) in Paris - so came over on the Eurostar earlier this evening…superb service, I cannot understand how they are still losing money. It took two and half hours dead to Gare Du Nord in Paris - then I was in a taxi within 5 mins, and at my hotel at [...]

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I have just discovered 6 music - a digital only radio station from the BBC…back-to-back this afternoon was Steve Wonders new single - What the Fuss, followed by classic Depeche Mode - People are People…I cannot think of another place where you might hear this. That was off the back of about 2 hours of excellent [...]

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Just got my first listen to the new Coldplay album - X&Y, and seeing as they will be EVERYWHERE very soon, I thought I’d have my pre-emptive strike on a review of the long awaited (by some) third album from the quiet boys of rock and roll. There truly are no surprises on this album, [...]

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