Big city living – the big not-so-easy

by | May 22, 2007 | Mobile

Having spent basically all my life living in big metropolitan centres around the [western] world, I am prone to wax on about their long vaunted advantages: cultural centre, variety of people, business opportunities, anonymity, blah blah blah. Then there are the...

The name game

by | May 22, 2007 | Marketing, Politics

Following only a couple days after posting a comment on old-fashioned marketing (starting with your ABCs), I came across an article in the Daily Telegraph (Tuesday May 22, page 29) entitled “Is your name to blame for your life?” The article featured an online study of...

Ipod – old fashioned marketing

by | May 20, 2007 | Marketing

I remember in my entrepreneurial days thinking that it was a good idea to have the name of the company start with an “A” so that we would appear at the beginning of the [old concept] yellow pages (sort of the ABCs of marketing). Today, we are confronted...

NYC Presidential Race (courtesy Freakonomics)

by | May 20, 2007 | Politics

I found refreshing, as a pseudo New Yorker, this blog by Freakonomics duo, Levitt & Dubner, on the possibility of having three of the US Presidential candidates coming from New York: H Clinton (D), Giuliani (R) and Bloomberg (Independent)…! When you know...

Nice airport

by | May 20, 2007 | Travel

If only for the English sounding name of this city, Nice might well have been named the City of the English. As it stands, we have the pre-eminent Promenade des Anglais. Yet, flying Easyjet, the French crew spoke of “boarding” instead of...

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