by Tom | Dec 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
@eddieizzard Caroline is loving the show. #
by Tom | Dec 7, 2009 | Business, Reading
It looks like the Taliban are in effect guns for hire for the drug traffickers in Afghanistan. If there was a legal business there, would the Taliban still get funding from farmers?
by Tom | Dec 7, 2009 | Personal, Reading
I have finally finished Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1000 pages, 10% of which are footnotes). It is truly great and worth a read for AFR, Eschaton, and a few moments of snort-out-loud humour. But, typically, for the hard books I have been reading recently,...
by Tom | Dec 4, 2009 | Business, Reading
Howzat. Eric Schmidt makes a good case that newspapers have themselves to blame. We send online news publishers a billion clicks a month from Google News and more than three billion extra visits from our other services, such as Web Search and iGoogle. That is 100,000...
by Tom | Dec 4, 2009 | Business
I don’t quite get limited purpose banking, but it feels like a credible route to restructuring the banking system to lessen the chance of a credit bubble. The Daily Mash on the other hand… “Bankers last night rejected calls to live in the real world...
