I was a fan of bubbly Italian telly chef Antonio Carluccio and his eponymous restaurants as soon as they appeared in London around two decades ago. The large presence who single-handedly sought to improve upon what he dismissed as Britalian restaurant blandness. With his sad passing aged 80 [http://www.

I’m okay with oysters. I don’t actively seek them out. Yet have thoroughly enjoyed them all over the world. From New York’s dedicated Grand Central bar [http://www.oysterbarny.com/] bearing their name, to the buzzing Knysna Festival [http://www.oysterfestival.co.za/] in their honour, to

[/content/images/wordpress/2015/05/whowantstobeamillionaire-salespitchfirstquestion-player-salespodder.jpg] A while back I helped a firm’s large-scale technology sales. It became apparent that a new way to class suspect buying likelihood existed. Their target market was turbulent. Lots of M&A activity. Big re-structures aplenty. To frame this new view,

Some labour-saving devices change your world. The spork. Spreadsheet auto-sort. A wife. Others are doomed to the robot-controlled dustbin of failure. Gmail’s ‘smart reply’ feels like the latter. It’s invaded my mobile inbox [https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/17/google-brings-smart-replies-to-gmail-on-ios-and-android/] since the Summer. And annoys me each time