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Boom sundry August 2011-08-08
ALBATROSS
“I want to create enthusiasm, structure and make a strong impression on financiers”
The problem with this quote is that it’s a list containing two nouns and an infinitive.
A few additions are needed.
“I want to create enthusiasm and structure and to make a strong impression on financiers”
That was what Toste Junestrand, CEO at Albatross, said when he let BOOM lead the process of developing the corporate business plan.
I’ve moved said which was in the wrong place.

APTILO NETWORKS

Being an expert in one’s field, it is easy to get lost in technical details when developing, dramatising and communicating customer benefits. BOOM helped Aptilo through that process and redesigned their two web sites.

I have added an apostrophe for one’s and an before expert.

NETWORK SECURITY

OK . The dog text is in Swedish but I presume that the campaign has only been done in Swedish.



CELLMAX

Mail campaign and invitation to housewarming cocktail event at the CommunicaAsia2011 exhibition and conference in Singapore.

I changed the word order and added “and conference”. Makes it clearer.

I don’t like the phrase housewarming cocktails. Those two words don’t go together in my book. They suggest two rather different kinds of events.

I suggest; cocktail party, housewarming party, housewarming event or even housewarming cocktail party.


ITSNILLET. (Ingen egen sida)

OK

Larkin

It's Whitsun weekend, so what better time to read The Whitsun Weddings - or better still, listen to Philip Larkin read it himself.

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=7108

Radio 4 book club nicks our ideas!

A brilliant idea. Listeners get to find out which book a writer will be talking about a month before the programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/2011/06/radio_4_bookclub_the_history_o.html

Jennifer Egan - A visit from the Goon Squad

Here's a book that should be put on the next HN list for consideration.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/may/07/jennifer-egan-life-goon-squad?INTCMP=SRCH

EngLit

This article takes a look at one of our topics of conversation at last night's very enjoyable HobNob Literary Summit Meeting.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2007/sep/20/learningtohateliterature?INTCMP=SRCH

Memoirs of childhood

All these sound very readable. I dread the day that Kai learns to write and starts writing his memoirs! I'll never be able to show my face in public again!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/01/caradoc-king-top-10-childhood-memoirs

McGregor on Yooftube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rjPMUjX8Lc

Scotsman interview with Jon McGregor

http://living.scotsman.com/bookreviews/Interview-Jon-McGregor-Author.6028059.jp

Interview with Jon McGregor

http://theexcerpt.com/2010/03/even-the-dogs-an-interview-with-jon-mcgregor/

Amis Junior and Amis Senior

Some interesting stuff on the way words change their meanings.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/27/martin-amis-father-english-language-kingsley

Another William Boyd Interview

Interesting stuff on both the book and the film.

http://www.mumsnet.com/qanda/william-boyd

Diabolically interesting stuff

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-devil-has-the-best-lines-how-satan-has-informed-much-of-our-great-art-2251137.html

Another book with lots of real people!

The Grauniad is full of stuff about AHH.Probably best to read the book first before one starts dipping into it all!


I found this article about the Windsors rather interesting.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/nov/13/william-boyd-any-human-heart-murder?INTCMP=SRCH

And here's more!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/oct/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview2?INTCMP=SRCH

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/oct/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview5?INTCMP=SRCH

William it was really something!

With the TV series of Any Human Heart starting there is a lot of fine Boydsiana around.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/nov/21/any-human-heart-william-boyd?INTCMP=SRCH

A slant of journalists

Marvellous letter in the Guardian last week:

The Somerset starlings were amazing, but the caption a little confusing (Eyewitness, 14 February). It's not that "Flocks such as these are known as murmurations", as you had it, but that the collective term for starlings is a murmuration. These terms were compiled in The Book of St Albans, published in 1486. Here you find not only the terms we still use, eg a bevy of beauties and a pride of lions, but those that have fallen out of common use, eg a crash of rhinoceroses and an exaltation of larks. This last gave the title for James Lipton's book on the subject. One of the many terms Lipton coined in his book was "a slant of journalists".
Richard Humm, London

"An exaltation of larks" and "a murmuration of starlings" are, hopefully, memorable. But I don't think I shall forget "a slant of journalists".

What, though, should one call a group of middle-aged gits chattering about literature, politics and the meaning of life?

A gaggle of geezers, perhaps?

No aversion to James

Some thought provoking pieces on the influence of the King James version on the English language. Read Linton Kwesi Johnson's comments on its influence in Jamaica and on reggae music!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/18/king-james-bible-language

Makes me wonder whether I shouldn't hit Kai with some Genesis or Revelations!


Shall we take the Old Testament as our next book????

The lost art of editing

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/11/lost-art-editing-books-publishing?INTCMP=SRCH

Apropos nothing at all, again

Paintings by George Shaw that might make you feel homesick. Or not.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/feb/13/art-george-shaw-in-pictures#/?picture=371660209&index=1

Any human start

Being a lazy couch potato, I may save myself the effort of turning all those pages and just watch the TV series instead.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Any-Human-Heart-DVD-Broadbent/dp/B003RRXUHS/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b

Something that I am sure none of the rest of you would even consider!

Boyd

The choice has been made!

Here's a bit of Willy for you all:

http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=808

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i340H3bx0_U

Everyone's a critic now

The internet is certainly broadening the whole field out! Nowadays an articulate blogger can get themselves a significant audience.



The article is interesting on the US grassroots response to European high-brow culture too.

Big First Issue Competition

A packet of Hobnobs to the first reader who:
1. Guesses where Virginia Woolf is in this photograph.
2. Explains what she is doing in said image.
3. Best expresses, in twenty words or less, the brand experience of munching a delicious Hobnob biscuit.

PJ