Mafia = $120bn?

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?

MS CRM offline error

Got an odd error “specified subscription does not exist” when trying to go offline with CRM.The solution on eggheadcafe worked fine for me.

Highgate Slopes after all?

I’m not a fan of estate-agentese, but I think even I will call my dwelling area “Highgate Slopes” if they rename the tube “Dick Whittington”.

How’s your science

Very interesting to be forced to remember stuff you don’t really have to remember. I got 100%, thankfully. I do self-describe as a scientist, donchaknow.

Hometips

HomeTips is an interesting story on how you can make money online by owning a niche you care about.

Facebook and Wikipedia in government

Interesting thinking about how government(s) might respond to the value created by networks like Facebook and LinkedIn and user-generated content like Wikipedia.

Shared services watered down?

I’m not sure that’s exactly the message that John Suffolk wanted to get across…The Cabinet Office has effectively dropped the idea of requiring largegroups of Whitehall departments to merge their corporate services underthe transformational...