by Tom | Jul 7, 2010 | Government, Science
I’m glad that the whole antioxidant / happy bacteria / green tea industries are being not-so-gently proscribed by the EU. If the directive has been in preparation since 2006 and the more clinical trials needed take three years, then why haven’t they done...
by Tom | Jul 1, 2010 | Business, Reading
Cracking stuff (apart from “crucibles of change”, that is) from McK on five major drivers of global change for businesses and individuals. Lots to digest and redigest there.
by Tom | Jun 30, 2010 | Business
McK suggests that corporates make China their corporate second home. Not for labour arbitrage, but because the hundreds of millions of people being brought into the working and spending populations dwarf the workforce in the developed world (e.g. only 150m in the...
by Tom | Jun 29, 2010 | Personal
I’m not sure who I want to win, but it is a day of upsets at Wimbledon, and the crowd seems to be behind the underdog…
by Tom | Jun 27, 2010 | Personal
Just back from Billy Budd at Glyndebourne. Brilliant. The sequence where they are preparing to chase down a French ship put Master and Commander into the shade. Not bad comparison between an opera and a Hollywood film. Last night so you’ll have to watch the DVD...
by Tom | Jun 22, 2010 | Personal
It absolutely rocks after finishing the largest chicken ever. It will have feed seven people over three days.
by Tom | Jun 22, 2010 | Personal
So there I was watching the budget on a Sky plus recording, when who should call but HMRC asking me for money. Now I know we all have to pay for the excesses of the banks, but that’s really, really faster than I expected.
by Tom | Jun 22, 2010 | Reading
Live map of London Underground trains. Neato. Traintimes.org gets it spot on again. The yellow pins are tubes. See how they move.
by Tom | Jun 22, 2010 | IT
Wordbooker was doubling or tripling things. I hope it has stopped.
by Tom | Jun 22, 2010 | Personal
Having completed the line of school friends turning 40, I got a copy of Playboy for June 1970 ($1 seems quite expensive, but it is 200 pages long!).It is really, really tame and full of unreadable densely packed articles. On a sad note, I noticed that the featured...
