by Tom | Oct 23, 2007 | Reading
It’s an extraordinary number if it is true – the Mafia rakes in $120bn, 7% of the Italian economy. I suppose the question needs to be how much of the UK economy is grey, black or crime based?
by Tom | Oct 22, 2007 | Reading
Nice link to an article on one of the Bear Stearns hedge funds. Nice meaning scary. Are they all like this, just not caught out?
by Tom | Oct 12, 2007 | Reading
Interesting thinking about how government(s) might respond to the value created by networks like Facebook and LinkedIn and user-generated content like Wikipedia.
by Tom | Oct 12, 2007 | Reading
Some interesting groupings coming out of an analysis of company name changes. We are almost mentioned (not).
by Tom | Sep 28, 2007 | Reading
I use “formal” proof correction marks most of the time, but also use them wrongly. Here’s a very clear summary (PDF) of how they should work.
by Tom | Sep 28, 2007 | Reading
Unrelated, but I heart fonts and I really like Quicksilver, so much so that I’ve faked up some core functionality in Windows using Macro Express (none of the other tools quite do it for me).
