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7 Tips for Brilliant Logo design

So many logos I see these days are absolutely terrible, and have clearly not been designed for use online.  I’m no designer, but have had occasion over the years to produce product and company graphics for a variety of purposes. The skills and talent of design professionals is not in any doubt, but as a...
6 December 2012
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In Dreams

I have a friend, who has been having the same dream every night, for the past decade.  Not exactly the same dream though, repeating itself over and over like Groundhog Day, which is impossible to shake.  His dream is more of a continuing drama, involving the same set of characters, including himself, which picks up...
22 November 2012
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Prisoner’s Voting Rights

Can someone please explain to me why it is generally accepted as a good thing to deny prisoners the right to vote in public elections? What precisely does David Cameron think he will achieve, other than pandering to public outraged sentiment, and tabloid faux disgust, by stating that his government will NEVER allow prisoners to...
19 November 2012
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Here comes da Wooluff! Facebook Jobs

There has been a flurry of uninformed comment in the past 24 hours on Facebook’s new venture into the job advertising sector.  Like Google, people have spoken of the prospect of this colossal worldwide organisation getting into recruitment with a mixture of fear and loathing.  Facebook has over 1billion members worldwide, 800 million of which...
15 November 2012
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Alternate Day Fasting

Stop reading this immediately, if you get bored rigid with people talking about losing weight. I am about to write several paragraphs on the subject. I have long believed that most people are exactly the weight they want to be.  Becoming overweight, and maintaining it requires considerable effort.  I speak as someone who was becoming...
12 November 2012
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A Peek Behind The NORAs

At this time of year, and for the last 12 years, I am usually immersed in a sea of recruitment websites.  This is a lot less fun than you’d imagine, but far more fascinating too, and often involves very late nights squinting my eyes at spreadsheets and job boards.  Whose stupid idea was it to...
13 September 2012
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Sporting Loyalties, and Andy Murray

Why do I get so excited when Andy Murray wins at tennis?  An accident of birth means that he was born less than 20 miles from me, so does his success somehow validate me, and other Scots?  I may actually have more in common with other sportsmen and women, but location of origin is usually...
11 September 2012
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My Wee Boy

Today I delivered son number two, and a ton of gear, to his new student halls in St Andrews for the first time. It was an emotional day. When kids are little, all parents look for any signs that their children will have what it takes to make their way in the world. The first...
9 September 2012
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IS YOUR CAREER ALL AT SEA?

A ship at sea relies upon 3 things: propulsion, steering and navigation. Without any one of these it will never reach its destination, cannot avoid immediate obstacles or can only go where the currents dictate, and eventually run aground. These three components are also vital to any individual’s career.  Propulsion, or power.  Even the very...
30 August 2012
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