Careless comments, catastrophic losses.

For anyone unsure of the price to be paid for ill-considered words spoken to a journalist; try £3.5 BILLION.

BP CEO Tony Hayward sent his organisation's share price crashing down this week with comments that will also no doubt have a knock-on effect on the entire oil sector.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bfcd47a6-6b9a-11dc-863b-0000779fd2ac.html

The CEO of a £108 billion outfit REALLY ought to know better.

Belated Birthday Wishes

So it's birthday time for Bluewood Training, and I think we've just about had all the wine and cake we can handle. But what made me smile yesterday was finding out that we share our birthday with the WORLD'S OLDEST MAN.

Admitedly, 112 year old Tomoji Tanabe of Japan is probably going a tad mad, declaring that he wants to live 'indefinately'(!) but nonetheless he's is in pretty fantastic shape for someone so ancient.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7000487.stm

Happy Birthday Bluewood Training. And of course, Happy Birthday Tomoji.

Chocolate Monkey.

Viral marketing is a term that is being heard everywhere now. It is said by some marketing 'experts' to be the only way to reach your customers effectively these days.
But; what is it? Does it work? Is it just a funny clip someone uploads on youtube?
Well this is latest of them:

http://www.glassandahalffull.com/

Does it make you want to eat chocolate? Or just go and buy Phil Collins' Greatest Hits?

Mercury Microphone Shambles

Hats off to the Klaxons winning the Mecury Music Award last night, was great to see an outsider win over the more established acts.

However their acceptance speech handling left a bit to be desired?! Holding the mics so close that no-one could understand a word they were saying before then falling over the stand...

Musicians or not, I think those guys need some presentation training before their next award ceremony!