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Mike’s Hippo-poem finds a good home

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An idea that has been buzzing around Mike’s head for some time has finally been put to good use. His comic verse ‘Hippoparadox’ has been included in TwitterTitters a marvellous collection of comic writing that has been bundled together to raise money for Comic Relief. The book creators, Linda Jones and Louise Bolotin, used the [...]

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Photography Books competition hosted by Blurb

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Blurb the people behind ‘bookshop-quality personal publishing’ have a competition running (closing date 16th July 2009) for the finest, most creative and innovative self published photography books and the people behind them. Get along to http://pbn.blurb.com if you fancy your chances.

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And should never be used to start a sentence.

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But is an equally bad beginning. Both these statements express widely held views. But, are they true? Rather than give a simple ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ answer to this most frequent of FAQs, writer Mike Reed has pulled together a panel of expert witnesses to answer the question. Testimonials from Kingsley Amis (The Kings English – [...]

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PSS NIVEA KI PRAY

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Saw this on the bus. Can’t help feeling Nivea have been short-changed despite spending longer trying to decipher their message than I spent on any other ad on the bus. I wonder if they get a special rate for restricted visibility? Alternatively, do they have to pay extra to have a special fitting of their [...]

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melo in the morining

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Seen on welcome screen of the tills at the Sterling Cafe in the ‘Gherkin’ early one Friday morining.

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Will the real David Hughes please stand up?

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Well, it’s hard to be definitive – there’s a lot of us about. And a lot of us work in creative fields of one sort or another. A quick search on Google will undoubtedly yield David Hughes the illustrator (brilliant) and David Hughes the dancer (also brilliant) and a host of other David Hughes’ of [...]

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David Hughes’ unwitting role in a recent email scam

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David Hughes is a pretty common name. But when a friend received an email from David Hughes and Associates he immediately thought of my business. He assumed I had been the victim of identity theft. And in a sense I had – along with every other David Hughes in the world. Below is the content [...]

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Where, exactly, did the time go?

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I attended a talk at the Kingston IET last night. I had a front row seat in a shed packed with aging engineers in the garden of the Lion Pub, Wicks Road, Kingston. Well, we’re all heading in the same direction at about the same rate so I guess we’re all aging something-or-others. I was [...]

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An end to entity envy

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Using entity codes in your web copy is the right way to ensure that what you say comes out the way you intended. It’s also good practice if you want your code to validate. Blogs are particularly prone to mishaps with missing entity codes. &s; frequently get mangled and text cut and pasted from a [...]

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I don’t always know which colours go, but at least I now know where to go to get them.

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It’s a sad confession for a designer, I know, but it’s born out of experience of hearing colour consultants speak about colour at a professional level. It showed me I really have no idea. We used to share office space with a colour forecasting company. The sort of business that predicts what we’re all going [...]

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