I wish I had an addictive personality.

To any creative, alcohol is more a professional tool than a personal vice; campaigns get greater after a bottle of Rioja, headlines and copy flow more freely. There’s scientific backing for the process, too: alcohol is a depressant, but the first thing it depresses is your inhibitions, allowing creativity to flood and the essential stuff of Big Ideas to make it onto an A3 pad in Magic Marker.

But at Christmas I decided to cut down my alcohol intake, and that was that. It wasn’t even difficult. I cut down to a glass a night and none midweek, and that was ALL. I wish it’d been harder.

Hey, I’m not going to bill anything in January, anyway. Sobriety rules!

I’m fascinated by Carl Warner’s tabletop landscapes. Wonder if he actually eats them afterwards? Carl is here, although his website doesn’t measure up to his talent, being the usual horrible Flash-infested wankfest common to visual creatives.

Here’s the idea: for the next month, whenever you update your Facebook ‘is box’, update it with something you’re NOT doing.

“Chris is NOT updating his blog when he should be studying.”

“Chris is NOT munching his way through a gallon of Ben & Jerries after midnight.”

“Chris is NOT entertaining anyone surnamed Portman, Moss or Sharapova back at his place tonight.”

You get the idea. Try it for a day or two and see if it catches on.