Yes, I have gone a bit quiet, haven't I? Here's why. I'm working on a book for FT Prentice Hall on online marketing for small businesses - due to publish summer 2010. If you'd like me to consider your business as a case study for the book, please get in touch!

Something very scary happened to me this week. OK, not to me – to my computer – which I unhealthily consider an extension of myself. My first clue was when the Internet blocked my IP address and therefore my outgoing email. Specifically, the Composite Blocking List. No, I didn’t know what it was either [...]

Lunch with my nephew, Harrison, at our local airport, Fairoaks, at the weekend. Little more than an airstrip in the middle of Chobham Common – but they have a caf from where you can see light aircraft and helicopters taking off and landing. Entertaining for 3-year-olds and 37-year-olds alike.

You know how you go years without going to a wedding, and then get invited to three? I went to this year’s first wedding at the weekend – and I think I can safely say in advance, without fear of contradiction or offence, that it was the most spectacular venue of the three.

Well, not quite a deathmatch. A very civilized discussion on democracy between national treasure Tony Benn and his political opposite, David Davis. It’s amazing what strange bedfellows are created by opposition to 42 days without charge. They were having an on-stage chat as part of the London Literature Festival, which I attended on Monday with [...]