Russell Davies

presentation dilemma

Sometimes I look at this and think it's a picture of the worst presentation ever. And sometimes it looks absolutely perfect.

calories

Well, I've lost some weight and run the 10K (and seem to have buggared my knee) so it feels I can reward myself with some egg, bacon, chips and beans. And a cup of tea. So there are new entries here and here. It's been a good weekend.

the next olivier

Arthur displays the gamut of emotions in the School Christmas play. From mildly interested...

...to mildly uninterested.

egregious empowerment

'Empowers' is one of those words that you see too often. An especially bad example from AdAge's website :

"Welcome to Adage.com.
For access to our website, please login or register. Registration is free and empowers you with up-to-the-minute breaking news from the most authoritive source covering the Advertising Industry"

british hairways

If I was going to embark on another long and pointless project then this would be it - collecting punny hair-dresser names. Because this is a classic. From Sheffield.

dear bbc

I'm sure Steve's already blogged about this but it's worth saying again. Hurrah for the BBC and their listen again stuff and even more hurrahs for the In Our Time site and the huge wealth of incredible material they're making available for free. Particular favourites are youth, politeness, pi and bohemia.

fun with demography

I know it's geeky but I'm really enjoying the IT Conversations website. There's a lot of very arcane, very technical audio. But there are also some real nuggets in there - like this audio presentation from Joseph Chamie, the UN's head demographer. Firstly, it's just interesting; demography is such powerful stuff, most trend stuff is so wishy-washy while demography feels both inevitable and important. Secondly, he presents it really well. It's a great example of someone making technical stuff really personal and compelling.

nike/maharishi terminator hi

I don't often buy white trainers. Horribly impractical. But I couldn't resist these. Like a big, orange boiled sweet wrapped in marshmallow.