Month: July 2014

  • How Starbucks have ruined their brand

    I am what people politely refer to as a “prosumer” when it comes to coffee. Suffice to say, Google Now tells me about driving time to two locations on a Saturday morning – the St John Ambulance operations center and the Starbucks Dunleavy Drive Thru and I will invariably have gone to at least one if…

  • DRIP passed through first phase

    It seems that the new Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill is going to get rushed through without any serious challenge. I’ve held back comment on the bill so far, unlike a range of people far more learned than I am, like David Allen Green, Lillian Edwards and even an FT Editorial [requires registration, free]…