• C'est moi

    VP of Marketing & Communications for Rackup, but nothing here reflects what my employer or colleagues think. In fact, they probably think it's all cray-cray.

    Jackie Danicki
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Customers bite back

The Consumerist: A blog after my own crusty, bitchy heart. (I told my father - who always, always writes a letter to inform a company when they’ve done him wrong - that he should take all of his missives and put them on a blog. When I have a spare nanosecond, I’m going to help […]

“What are you gonna do about it?”

Amy Alkon, my trés chic friend, reports:
.. there’s no such thing as a “should” — just your preferred outcome when something happens. He “should have called you?” No, he didn’t call you. There is no should. Either it is or it ain’t — and what are you gonna do about it?
I find it a huge […]

Of Mena and Metcalfe

Drama bores me these days, but I feel the need to say something about Ben Metcalfe dogging Mena Trott in public, then getting shy about it and claiming he was acting out of ‘compassion’. (I first read about this via David Tebbutt’s Register account of the incident, which makes Metcalfe’s actions seem more positive than […]

Why I rarely work from home

1) There’s nobody to look nice for, so you don’t.
2) There’s nobody to smell nice for, so you don’t.
3) The new neighbours’ hourly “Fun with Drills” routine is even less charming on weekdays.
4) Not only are you sat at your desk when you should be commuting, you’re sat at your desk when you should […]

Not dead, just feel like it

The lack of posts here is due to the fact that my brain is being eaten alive by all things search. It’s a good thing, overall, but not in terms of updating this blog.
I was telling Jim Treacher last night about getting lost with my work boys in Spain last week, at 2.30 AM, […]

Meeting of the minds

I met up with Zopa inventor and Business Architect - and Zopa blogger - Dave Nicholson today. He had a latté, I chugged Diet Coke, and we had a lengthy chat about all kinds of geeky business and marketing stuff.
I don’t have much to say in this space about that, except that it was […]