Recently, I’ve been noticing brands that are trying too hard to protect an image that doesn’t quite fit with everything else they are trying to do. Protecting a brand is one thing but the rules around how a brand must be presented, even while under your control seems like a constraint too far. More so in the age of social media where the boundaries of brands and people connected to them become even more blurred.
IBM are one such brand, the rules governing how you can use their brand if you …

This isn’t about politics. This isn’t about religious ethics. This is about human lives. This is about my olive harvest trip to Palestine in October 2009. This is about how the Nazi holocaust has been fashioned into an ideological weapon to immunise Israel from legitimate criticism.
My trip certainly opened my eyes to what is actually going on behind those blurry censored mass media cameras, the news corporations don’t want us to see for some still unclear, foggy reason.

Just getting into Palestine via Israel is a slight struggle. The reason for …

This month heralds 20 years since the fall of the Berlin wall, which reunited a country, brought about the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and change lives forever. It fell as quickly as it went up, while up it divided mankind from mankind, now down it inspires and unites.
Berlin for me is a special place, I’ll forever hold close to my heart, a place I’ll always have a bond, for many reason, none of which I’ll go into on this post. This post isn’t about Berlin, it is about …

A question that I have asked myself for a while is who owns the Bank of England? This post is dedicated to shedding some light on the matter.
BANK OF ENGLAND ACT 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6 c. 27)
An Act to bring the capital stock of the Bank of England into public ownership and bring the Bank under public control, to make provision with respect to the relations between the Treasury, the Bank of England and other banks and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

[14 February 1946]

Image by D1v1d …

I started this blog some time a couple of years ago with only a few things in mind. The first being that I wanted to understand the backend, tech side of things. I held the position in my job of an account/project manager for web development who was largely clueless about web development, so this project was about getting to grips with trying to understand more about what our developers were doing. My lesson from this, is that I’m still rubbish at the basics of coding and respect developers even …