Financial Community To Float
Wouldn’t it be the answer to our prayers if the entire financial community were dispatched to floating mid-ocean data centres…
Treats
Southern Charm
After a week’s conferencing in San Franciso it’s off to Georgia for R&R. Barrelling down I-16 from Atlanta to the sea, we hole up at Statesboro, 30 miles short of Savannah…
The Last Great Drinking City On The Planet
Forget the churches, architecture, art galleries, concerts, Bellinis (painted and poured), carnivals, masked balls, vaporetti and gondolas - the great claim to fame of Venice is that it’s the last great drinking city on earth…
Your Next Significant Fortune
Last week I was pointing out that the Financial Times reckons semiconductor shares are cheap and next year could be a good opportunity for each of us to make our next significant fortune by buying at the bottom of the market…
The Six Year Light-Bulb From Sharp
Lightbulbs lasting six years would be a fine thing, and Sharp believes that this is round the corner, now that that the declining ratio of $ per lumen and rising ratio of lumen per Watt is propelling LED into the general lighting market…
Wonderful American Oratory
America is the last place on earth to hear English oratory. Oratory of the mind-changing, tear-jerking, rib-tickling kind. It was great to come home last week, turn on the telly, and catch the big speeches from the previous day’s proceedings at the Democratic Convention…
To Decant Bordeaux Or Not To Decant?
A couple of weeks ago I was put in my place by a French sommelier who thought it unnecessary to decant a bottle of Chateau Belgrave 2000…
Put-Down By A Sommelier
Taken, at the weekend, by a generous friend to Le Manoir Aux Qat’Saisons - Raymond Blanc’s place which has had two Michelin stars for the last 22 years – I am deputed to interface with the sommelier on condition that I ultimately defer to the sommelier’s judgment…