I have been finding out more than I really want to know about Davos. Apparently the basic CEO rate is $71k. That is just to attend. Hotels, flights, food are all extra. But that only gets you into the sessions no one wants to attend. To get to the “private” sessions, the rate is $156k. [...]
Click the ad and you get: It turns out that you are not being offered a job in the usual sense, but an opportunity to work for yourself, getting paid by Google “£5 to £30 for every website link [you post] … on Google”. All you have to do is to pay a £1.39 fee [...]
All three of my phone lines have been down for about 40 hours. The BT fault and help lines have no information except that there has been a major incident in East London. A search on Google News brings up: Tens of thousands of phone lines remain disconnected after underground cables were damaged in east [...]
I find that interacting with many modern organizations is a kind of spiritual exercise. Unless I am in the right frame of mind, it is easy to get angry. The basic idea comes from the work on “expert systems” maybe twenty years ago. You organize your knowledge so that you deal with the most likely [...]
I don’t think I have ever watched the New York Giants or Miami Dophins, even on television. Indeed I am not entirely clear what the NFL is and had never heard of Jason Taylor before last week, so I will not be rushing to Wembley on Sunday. I ran into this screen and the huge [...]
