The post election lull and the lack of sympathetic stress hasn't only had an effect on tidyness ( Read more... )

Well, as people know, I started trying to fix computers to earn a bit of money. The people for whom I did the work for seem pleased, and have since then either asked for more work or passed on my details to someone else, who has given me more work. The net effect is that my work is threatening to bloom into small business territory ( Read more... )

I don't try and write much about stuff like this any more. There are plenty of opinionated blogs out there that do enough opinion economic analyses and wading into these areas has all the fun of stepping into a minefield. But sometimes I do think about these questions and, if I can think of a really simple objective answer to one single question ( Read more... )