The Christmas tree pub
If you’re near Kensington this Christmas make sure you visit The Churchill Arms, W8 7LN. Quite spectacular.
Last full trading week of 2019
This week will be the last full trading week of 2019. US stock markets are at all time highs, just buying the indexes this year would have yielded a very nice return, which you can see reflected in the performance of the major US sectors. More analysis to get you ready for the week in…
The new shopping frontier
Reading a blog post from Howard Lindzon this morning, looks like short video is the future of shopping. “Seventy percent of Amazon shoppers never click past the first page of search results. That’s because the platform’s homogenized product listings—title, price, photo, and star rating—are built for search, not discovery. As a result, sales are more…
Rush hour tube
I rarely get the tube, I would rather walk, and everywhere is pretty walkable in central London for the average person. Yesterday I had to get the tube during rush hour, it’s pretty hideous. An obvious change which would ease the crowding inside the carriages & increase capacity a fair amout, would be to make…
It’s like a plane
The fast train to London Euston.
O365 Powerapps running really slow
Microsoft have had issues for a week or so now with Sharepoint & OneDrive in their O365 suite. Access issues, speed issues, all intermittent. The Powerapp I have been working on has been really slow also, I put it down to the tie in with Sharepoint, however checking service health today all appears fine: Using…
Love trains
An extra 2 hours on the journey this morning due to signal and weather issues. Return journey waiting random amounts of time at each station for unknown reasons.
Chaos on top of the world
“The bodies were among as many as 200 corpses abandoned on Everest, most left behind because of the high cost—up to $100,000—and dangers of recovering them. They’re grim reminders of the mountain’s perils, and they’re likely to become more noticeable: As climate change thaws the mountain, the melting snow and ice are exposing additional corpses…
I thought you’d be bigger
North
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