Alan Vesty
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Blog of a Bookslut
- bly.com blog
- Cook sister!
- Copyblogger
- Inside Facebook
- Paper Cuts
- PiKE's Thinking ...
- PostSecret
- riskingit
- The Press in Africa
- The Rest Is Still Unwritten
- True Crime Book Reviews
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Marketing |
| Location | Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa |
| Introduction | I'm a marketer in the publishing industry in South Africa, with a particular passion for emarketing and elearning. I am married to a fantastic woman for more than 13 years now. Together, we share our home with our devoted cat Stinker and a sage mother-in-law. |
| Interests | Much like my musical tastes my interests are extremely varied and I'm a ravenous online reader of Wikipedia and other stores of knowledge like it. I value integrity ingenuity and lateral thinking. Though we lead modest lives my wife and I hope one day to make a meaningful lasting difference to the lives of some of our less-fortunate countrymen. I enjoy irreverent humour good red wine and bungee jumping., hydroponics, military history, Tamil culture, Tamil customs, Hindu philosophy, Indian authors, Chinese authors, Japanese authors, cats, emarketing, web design, museums, whiskeys, red wine blends, RTS games, sales skills, writing, female nudes, anarchy, ancient history, barbarian history, space exploration, astronomy, microbes, botany, strategy |
| Favorite Movies | Blade Runner, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence |
| Favorite Music | Johnny Clegg, U2, Talking Heads, Sex Pistols, Pavarotti, Puccini, Santana, Beethoven, Mozart, Edith Piaf, Rolling Stones, Beatles, ZZ Top, Handel, The Cult, OMD, Sting, Chris Rea, Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf, Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Tears for Fears, Bryan Ferry, Public Image Limited |
| Favorite Books | The next one I buy, We were Soldiers Once... and Young, An Unpopular War - from afkak to bosbefok, The Art of War, The Book of Five Rings, The Devil's Dictionary, The Bookaholics' Guide to Book Blogs, The Rough Guide to Blogging, The Hobbit, Coral Island, Asimov's Foundation series, The Bicentennial Man, Gateway, Rendezvous with Rama, Red Mars, Dune, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, Mort, Kringe in die Bos, The Kama Sutra, Disgrace, The Hungry Tide, The Zigzag Way |