The lang cat’s 10 best albums of 2012
When we’re not banging on about retail and corporate platforms, pensions, transparency and all that good stuff, we’re usually banging on about music. Here’s a list of our favourite 10 albums that have powered us through, got us inspired and kept us writing in 2012. What were yours? Kreator – Phantom Antichrist – tremendous battle […]
A year in the life of the lang cat
Just a short post, and a touch self-indulgent (or more so than usual), if you’ll forgive. A year ago today I cut the cord with the mighty Standard Life, put my pass, phone, laptop and other bits and bobs in a locked drawer and went out the twirly doors for the last time. It’s been […]
A year in the life of the lang cat
Just a short post, and a touch self-indulgent (or more so than usual), if you’ll forgive. A year ago today I cut the cord with the mighty Standard Life, put my pass, phone, laptop and other bits and bobs in a locked drawer and went out the twirly doors for the last time. It’s been […]
High Fidelity
Well, this is a turn-up for the books. Fidelity FundsNetwork (the SPECTRE of fund supermarkets to Skandia’s SMERSH) has announced that it’s going to start publishing the rebates it receives from fund managers. Money Marketing has the skinny here. A couple of things jump to mind: Well done. Yes, Fiddy would have had to do […]
High Fidelity
Well, this is a turn-up for the books. Fidelity FundsNetwork (the SPECTRE of fund supermarkets to Skandia’s SMERSH) has announced that it’s going to start publishing the rebates it receives from fund managers. Money Marketing has the skinny here. A couple of things jump to mind: Well done. Yes, Fiddy would have had to do […]
Humanity 2.0
Forgive the ramblings of an extremely tired but proud dad. This clearly has nothing to do with platforms or pensions, but I frankly see no point in having your own website if you can’t do stuff like this on it. Anyway, April 17, 2011 at 0716 saw the birth of Angus Matthew Polson, the lang […]
Humanity 2.0
Forgive the ramblings of an extremely tired but proud dad. This clearly has nothing to do with platforms or pensions, but I frankly see no point in having your own website if you can’t do stuff like this on it. Anyway, April 17, 2011 at 0716 saw the birth of Angus Matthew Polson, the lang […]
Flogging meat to the vegetarians
My good friend Alsy – the finest web manager in the third sector – sent me this story and it seemed pretty relevant as our industry tries to work out how to market itself better. Our hero is a fella by the name of Mac Macintosh. I suspect that is not his real first name. […]
Flogging meat to the vegetarians
My good friend Alsy – the finest web manager in the third sector – sent me this story and it seemed pretty relevant as our industry tries to work out how to market itself better. Our hero is a fella by the name of Mac Macintosh. I suspect that is not his real first name. […]
Just a passing Sunday thought
Don’t worry, I’m not going to crowbar this round to something about platforms. Kurt Vonnegut, maybe my favourite author, once wrote: “Which brings us to the arts, whose purpose, in common with astrology, is to use frauds in order to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings […]
