Author Archives: jb

Strrrrrodel is my name…….

Posted on 13 September, 2011 by jb

Steve Jobs’ commencement address at Stanford in 2005 should be required reading for anyone in business. Or life, for that matter. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust … Continue reading →

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Tunes for a Tuesday – 13 September 2011

Posted on 13 September, 2011 by jb

The Delfields – Bedroom Girls Corey Harris – Frankie Doris Ed Byrnes/Connie Stevens – Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) Fanfarlo – I’m a Pilot Kenna – New Sacred Cow Lucinda Williams – I Just Wanted to See You so … Continue reading →

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Time flies like an arrow.

Posted on 8 September, 2011 by jb

Fruit flies like a banana Groucho Marx HT Clueless in Boston

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Cheap flight, cheap flights…

Posted on 7 September, 2011 by jb
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Tunes for a Tuesday – 6 September 2011

Posted on 6 September, 2011 by jb

Alanis Morissette – Mary Jane Beatles – Good Day Sunshine Billy Joel – Summer, Highland Falls Brenda and the Tabulations – California Soul Chris Hillman and the Desert Rose Band – He\’s back and I\’m blue Field Music – Measure … Continue reading →

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The Limping Middle Class

Posted on 6 September, 2011 by jb

Excellent New York Times article by Robert B. Reich. Premise: 37% of all consumer spending is by the wealthiest 5% of Americans, this caused by an increasing wage inequality since 1980. Unless this inequality is reversed (as it was between … Continue reading →

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A day at the Kilnsey Show

Posted on 5 September, 2011 by jb
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Bent

Posted on 5 September, 2011 by jb
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Posted on 5 September, 2011 by jb
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On exactly which planet….

Posted on 4 September, 2011 by jb

…do these people live? An American astrophysicist, Dr Jason Steffen, has worked out a method that will cut the boarding time of an aircraft in almost half and save airlines £1m per plane per year. There’s madness in his method….er….method … Continue reading →

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