nottingham rocks...

[NB - this is our interpretation - not part of the real brand identity - see story]

Dave Wilson has posted to our company blogsite about the new brand identity work for Nottingham that Purple Circle did - they are getting hammered...

We like it - we think design gets a bad press in the UK - that has to change.

http://ilovepdg.blogspot.com/2005/03/nottingham-under-fire.html

Solidarity comrades...

metric diet update...

The story so far...

A simple diet for simple men - 100 days - I'm 64% of the way through --- here comes the joke someone told me --- "wow David - it seems like only yesterday it was 63%!"

haha!

I've lost 12.27 kgs so far - pretty good going...

(I had to use this converter - as I've been tracking in lbs - which is not allowed in the 10 rules... http://www.healthyweightforum.org/eng/converter.asp)

Still I think it's all down-hill now - I have learnt to love fruit and I no longer see taramasalata as a light snack between meals - IT IS A MEAL STUPID...

Blogsite still under development - but you'll get the gist from the link over there - CBA to link from here dudes...

swearing...it's not clever

...Just updated my personal information to make it perfectly clear that this is a personal blogsite and any swearing is just me being childish.

As my MD said, "Put a fuckin' disclaimer on the site you twat..."

[Thanks to Malcolm Hollingsworth at e-shotz]

podcast - show one:15th March 2005

Available on ilovepdg blogsite - my first podcast (AMENDED - WHEN I SAY "MY" I MEAN "WITH DAVE WILSON" - WHO I LOVE! xxxxx) - sound quality is rubbish - next one will be better...

http://ilovepdg.blogspot.com/2005/03/podcast-show-one-150305.html

Any ideas / comments please post here or on the pdg site.

Thanks...

It's all about China...

It finally made it to the front page in the Independent Education Review yesterday... fuck French and German - kids should be learning Chinese! That's my version of the headline - not their's ( I bought a learn Chinese CD-ROM about 2 years ago - ok I haven't learnt any yet - but it's the general idea!).

Tom Peters and I have been boring anyone who'll listen (- admittedly more people listen to Tom than me!!) about China for years...

It will all come to pass - including my space travel theory and everything!

AT PDG we spend a long time doing lots of EMEA wide translations - maybe we can just do english and chinese in future...

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By the way any hints on "how to be a visionary" and you're wife not just call you a "smug bastard" - even when you don't go around saying "I told you so"!

Podcasting Tests...

Dave W and I hope to be doing some test podcasts over the next week or two - if they're not too rubbish we'll blog them from here and the ilovepdg site.

Some initial topics will be:

• all advertising is just f**king spam...
• why do IT departments only promote the ****s?
• ad agencies are w*nk*rs...

enjoy...

What's Next...

My boss said to me the other day "David...you live the life" - went to see Engelbert Humperdinck at Nottingham Royal Centre last night.

Very good - must see experience - but whoa - what an old, old audience - made me and Polly feel like youngsters...

Strange warm-up comedian - helped set the scene for engelbert's sense of humour I guess?... anyway lots of risque / sex jokes but no f**king swearing - that would be rude...

No programme - but a v glossy brochure with lots of glam pictures of EH - nice to know that his philosophy is shared with me and President Bartlett from West Wing - "What's Next?..."

:)

nirvana of business cards...

Must see missing link new business cards:

http://www.helloworldblog.com/2005/03/
business_cards_.html

also love the strapline - "a modest little company, with much to be modest about"

Where I used to work we used - "yesterday's technology - at tomorrow's prices!" - that one used to go down well...