Re-Patted

How To Ruin a Career

johnny ingles — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:15:05 +0000

Question

johnny ingles — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:23:30 +0000

What do you get if you increase revenues for your company by over $5bn, boost operating profit from a loss to over $1bn a year and increase shareholder value by $30bn, all in the space of 5 years?

Answer: the sack.

The crime? You’re not Google.

Suicides. CD-ROMs.

johnny ingles — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:50:45 +0000

Fact: 255 British soldiers were killed in the Falklands War. 264 soldiers later committed suicide.

Great blast from the past: the first ever internet marketing conference. The introductory speaker, Ken McCarthy, explains why the ‘internet business’ is better than the ‘CD-ROM business’ to a sceptical audience. Features a young Marc Andreessen.

Wretched Rain

johnny ingles — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:43:25 +0000

Saturday afternoon. Raining, which suits my mood. Just ate 2 sticky toffee puddings. Now wretching. Which also suits my mood.

Was supposed to be going to Paris today, but just couldn’t face the journey. But have tackled the situation head-on…by not answering the calls of the person I was supposed to meet there.

Desperately Dodging The Sopranos

johnny ingles — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:54:10 +0000

Everything written about The Sopranos is true: it’s simply the best TV series ever and Shakespearian in significance. The very final episode screened on US TV last night. The final series hasn’t screened in the UK yet, so I don’t know the specifics but I know it’s ended on a cliffhanger – does Tony Soprano live or not?

99% of the blogs or magazines I read are American and 50% of these have postings on the final episode of The Sopranos. Most of these blogs, btw, are tech/new media related and nothing to do with mainstream TV, such is the crossover appeal of this series. My challenge for the next week or so is to avoid reading a blog that mentions the ending.

Fact: I’m a little out of my depth when talking about Shakespeare. I had to look up the spelling.

What Lesbians Like

johnny ingles — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:00:04 +0000

Those lesbians know a thing or two about women: The Lesbian Hot 100 List. Jodie Foster only made no 16 – weird huh?

Making a Buck

johnny ingles — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:38:13 +0000

Great New York magazine article on where the profit comes from ‘for everyone from a drug dealer to Goldman Sachs’.

Faces

johnny ingles — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:49:47 +0000

Seth Roberts thinks that seeing life-sized faces in the morning improves mood. Taking this as inspiration, alongside the desperate need to decorate my apartment after living there for over a year, I’ve decided to buy some photographic portraits. Here’s my list of faces. All are inspiring and some are, erm, stimulating, if you get what I mean.

Bill Clinton
Robert Kennedy
Bill Shankly
Kenny Dalglish
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
John Lennon
Stanley Kubrick
Stephen Fry
Mia Farrow
Burt Lancaster
Chuck D
Virginie Ledoyen

Crash

johnny ingles — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:03:13 +0000

Pile-up on the coast road by Marbella. Not my fault. The car behind me, who was hit by the car behind him, rolled on his side a couple of times before eventually hitting me. A foot higher and it would have landed right on top of me and I’d be dead. Dead or worse.

Seems To Be The Hardest Word

johnny ingles — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:59:29 +0000

To all the women who’ve ever had anything to do with me, I’d just like to say:

It seems clear to me that I have expressed a degree of regret that can be equated with an apology

Courtesy of Des Browne .