Memories of Impact! magazine From 1992 to about 1995 I, along with a bunch of my friends at the time, were really into action movies; whether they be the latest Jean Claude Van Damme movie, or Sly Stallone action movie, I always wanted to watch these movies over anything else. Whether this is the influence of movies like Die […]
Ownership verses Subscription Over the past few years a number of businesses, startups and organisations are increasingly releasing products, services through a subscription method; where patrons would pay a nominal fee for access to services. Subscriptions, from a business perspective, reflect regular income streams; and may increase branding, fans, etc. However; one downside is that you never own […]
MDI – A retrospective Some time ago I wanted to write an article to retrospectively review my time on the 2018 Multidisciplinary innovation masters at Northumbria University; however I never seemed to have the time. I wanted to give an overview of what the course was about, what did we as students actually do, and give some thoughts for […]
Greed Incorporated (2006) – Boardgame Review Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/55952/greed-incorporated Publisher: Splotter (2009) — “Greed is good” – Gordon Gekko Published by Splotter in 2009, Greed Incorporated sets 3-5 players in the world of high finance and economics as corporate investors or corporate raiders who are, in my words, actively trying crash companies in order to get a big-time severance pay and use this […]
The Psychology of Selling (2005) Book review A very poorly written book about sales. I read the book in about 1 day, its a pretty worthless book. It has very little to do with the Psychology of Selling at all. – I was very excited by the chance to read “Psychology of Selling” through my local library, and I was very excited […]
Why does travelling to Sunderland by public transport take so damn long? If you live in Tyneside area you’ll know that its a real pain to get anywhere south of the river using public transport. Your only options are to sit on the Metro for 45-90 minutes as it stops at every stop going around the system before you finally get to your destination in Sunderland; worse […]
Fixing Blofeld “Spectre”, the 24th installment of the James Bond movie franchise movies saw the re-introduction of Ernst Stravo Blofeld. The noted arch-vile and mainstay villain of the classic 1960’s Sean Connery James Bond movies was rebooted for a modern era and audience. However, as many reviewers and commentators have stated; this version of Blofeld, played by […]
Throw away your metal Indian club bells Often hyped as “Indian clubs”, the metal club bells found on the Internet and some retail shops are often used for swinging motions to help strengthen, build and improve stability issues in the shoulder; such as the rotator cuff. However, having spent some time using the Wooden indian clubs, I can say that the metal […]
Swift 3 – Using .map to walk through and create an array of items with offset Sometimes I want to create a quick way to add a number of items with a name; such as creating 10 decks with an offset number. Usually this can be done like this; // usual way; var decks : [Deck] = [Deck]() for idx in 1…10 { decks.append( Deck.init(name: “#\(idx)”) ) } But I find […]
Locomotive Werks review Buy Locomotive Werks Board Game on Amazon Published in 2002 by Queen Games and designed by Dieter Danziger, this economic game pits 3 to 5 players as investors in building factories that produce locomotives and aim to sell them to a dice-driven market where turn order is critical. Locomotive Werks’ main gimmick is “obsolesce”; the […]
