Happiness is no longer a cigar called Hamlet, so where can we find it? At the WACL dinner last week we were all given a free copy of Alastair Campbell’s book “The Happy Depressive” (Arrow Books - £4.99).

Since Neil Armstrong’s immortal words in 1969 much has changed in the world.

Since the last blog the country appears to have slipped quickly back into the way we were before the golden sporting memories of the summer. 

I don’t like peanuts. To coin a phrase, I eschew them. I have seen no quantitative taste tests, but watching people nibbling in bars suggests most people do like peanuts. So disliking them is just a personal quirk.

What’s the smartest business move you’ve ever made? Recognising that the sole pursuit of profit is fruitless. Serve customers well, treat your staff well and have fun. Profit is invariably the outcome.

I think it was Stephen Hawking who observed that the opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

THE ANGINA MONOLOGUES:

1/ Koalas bellow. 2/ Facebook hosts 4% of all photos ever taken. 3/ Victorian housewives made jam with carrots as a stand-in for apricots. 4/ Yawning cools down the brain

Commute to office – 33 minutes and 09 seconds Arrive at office – 8.07am First chat with colleague – 8.20am First coffee/tea of the day – 8.27am Lunch – 12.57pm Lunch break

The Roman empire, the British empire – they rise, they fall, nothing surer. And equally sure is the fact that for a certain period of time no one on the planet could imagine they would ever, ever decline. So it is with Tech companies.