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Household solar

Solar has been around forever. Without any seemingly real impact for the average Joe Bloggs. Thats seems to be shifting now. Freds powering 91% of the energy required to run his home by solar. Impressive.

Weightings

I was thinking over the weekend I should look at the weighting of my SIPP. I dollar cost average into a fund every month, but also taken some bets around some key themes. Stock / Fund Percentage owned Vanguard US Equity Index Income 25.90 Square 5.44 Facebook 4.16 Apple 3.88 Paypal 3.83 Alibaba 3.36 Tencent…

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Saturday golf

O365 backups

The million dollar question. Should I be spending money on backing up my Office 365 tenant. What even does this mean? Office 365 is the umbrella to many apps that can run independently of each other whilst also being tightly interlinked. You can backup Exchange mailboxes, Sharepoint content, if you wish. Or you could use…

Flight simulator

Used to love Microsoft flight simulator as a kid. I crashed trying to go under this bridge many a time. They have just released a new version and it looks amazing. Would love to have a go with the latest version. Doubt my old PC has the power to run it. One day.

£6.20

Minimum wage is £8.72 At these rates earning 1.4 pints per hour. Here are the ratios from 2011. Increased about 40% in the UK to 0.7 hours work to buy a pint based on the above numbers.

Victors

Victor is a local barber in my hometown. I used to go there 40 odd years ago. Too small to sit in the chair. Vic would put a plank of wood across the arms of the chair and I’d sit on that. Victor was where I had my first skinhead 20 plus years ago. A…