BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #28 Near my beloved 90 Mainyard there is the GIGANTIC swimming pool that was left there when the 2012 Olympic Games moved on. As well as walking past it a lot thinking 'now I have joined I really must go in there', #Babybernie has a swimming lesson in there every Thursday. We do it on this day because I look after him on Thursday's. Yes I only show up to work four days a week amazingly I get more done in four days than I ever got done in five days. Think about how much time you spend kicking the ty
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #27 It's NIL until you ship it. I am not going to be looking back at these last 27 or so days and thinking 'that was the best work of my life' but I am going to be able to spot where the contributions are to what will happen in the future. I was lounging around on my desk at 90 Mainyard pontificating about blogging and inbound marketing - again. Poor Nils, the super smart developer lead who sits next to me. He patiently listens to y semi-insightful drivel everyday and then goes back to his code a
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #24 So I started this #justanother30dayblogchallenge thing to kick myself into shape. I have seen many people do it, shout about how they are doing it and hope to get more twitter followers. This time I am blogging and I don't care if anyone reads it or not. No really I don't give a rats arse. Why? Because I am working out loud. I am in Beta. I am finding my feet. I am jumping out my comfort zone and don't mind what I look like. Of course I mind what I look like but if I shoot forward like this I
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #23 Ok so this is your next post and you have already started.What is going on with you today and what do you want to share?.Really? I am so fucking chuffed that I just can't stop writing and can do it so fast.So how about how far you have come and that you feel like you have leapt out of a car going over a cliff that has been on the way for ages and you knew you had to get out of it but were too frightened to do anything.I have always known I'd make it, I just knew. If you had looked at me on the w
BLOG How To Get Your Bank To Listen To You I was going to start with a rant about banks and how they suck. However, I'll restrain myself as I'd hate to be childish and reactive after getting off of the phone with my bank.I won't say who they are, apart from they have the same name as a town in Spain, also that they have shown one or two fleeting glimpses of compassion in the 30+ years I have held an account with them.Actually, my issue is with the 'computer says no' mentality of organisations in general.In Seth Godins book 'Small is the
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #21 It was 1997 or maybe even 1998 and I was wondering around Canary Wharf where I worked, I felt like a teenager and was certainly acting like one. I had just only just got over big relationship number two and little did I know I was heading for big relationship number three and a couple of years later would have my heart ripped out again. I would excitedly meet 'then girlfriend' and gaze into her eyes over coffee at Pret, or wait in the rain by the Docklands train - no Jubilee line in those days
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #20 So reader, what is going on here? A few of you, well two people have asked "Hey Bernie how is the blog challenge going?" Honestly some days it is a curse, a curse in the way that small children who are alive and full of energy are. You want them to be that way and love them dearly but sometimes you are not in the mood and have to play anyway. On the flip side I have learnt a lot about choice from both #babybernie and my blog. For Years I have 'dreamed of being a blogger' I have dissected every
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #19 It was 1997 and we were coming home from my birthday party we'd been to the cinema or a pub and it was late, very late to be out with Jenny and Anna. One of the things I liked about being with Jenny and Anna is that it was all moments, no gasping highs and dreadful lows, just moments - little bits of music, food, walks interspersed with mugs of coco and good coffee. We'd been together on our birthdays at 18, 21 and now it was 1997. I was a bit starting to feel really lost but still 'acceptabil
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #17 This is the opening line and the one that shows on facebook so it better be good! Hell's teeth batman! Ok I could see how you think this is two days in a row I have skipped, but really it is one. Why? I am on the way home after clearing my head into Trello and Mindmister. This means I don't have to come up for air until Monday, well Sunday night. I am on the N25 "down the Ronford Road" we have just passed "Grafters Agency" which is on the right as you head towards sunny Ilford. What a day,
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #15 It was all going so well and then it happened. I woke up and quickly wrote my 750words.com and then headed out for the day. I had therapy and then the dentist with the rest of the family and then went home. Honestly, I just could not face walking across the wind and rain swept Olympic park, or getting the bus. So this is why I missed a day yesterday... #Supercoolwife and I dropped the boy back and nursery and sneaked off to our favourite Polish restaurant for some lunch before getting on wi
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #14 I am very sure that porn and inspirational quotes are what keep the internet going, we'd hate to admit it but what teenage boys thrive off is also what most of the human race with access to the internet seeks out. Every time I stick a few words over a picture it seems to propel what ever message I am pimping that week, it also annoys the hell out of me that posting a quote on twitter early in the morning is certain way to get a few early morning RT's (Re-tweets) - while we are here can you tell
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #13 So there I was wandering through the back garden of 90 Mainyard (some people call it the Olympic Park - but really it is our back garden) chatting on the phone, this is something I do less and less these days. In the days of Nokia you could not get me off the phone, these days I hardly talk on it and hide it at weekends. When I say hide it I mean I don't even take it out with me and I still reach in my pocket to check it, look at facebook, write something down, quickly check email, rearrange my
