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Core competence of the potato
By Alan Betts

Christmas time! The search for “interesting” presents took me and Barbara to Daylesford Organics. This is a very posh farm shop in the Cotswolds. It is the sort of place where you can have a free lunch by trying all the different sorts of tastings available. Not strictly lunch (honest) but when offered to taste the very finest vodka it would be churlish to decline. So we tried it. Now I admit I am not a connoisseur of the vodka but this was very nice. It was made by Tyrells we were told. ...

Never gonna give Zappos up
By Alan Betts

Isn’t serendipity a strange thing. Couple of weeks ago I had never heard of Zappos, then I found the Harvard Vid “Why Zappos Pay New Employees to Quit and You Should too” – Check it out very interesting. Yesterday we had an internet crisis in our house, couldn’t get the darn thing to work, our go to guy Ben wasn’t contactable so I was going through my limited repertoire of turning things off and on. Anyway as such I was sitting at Barbara’s pc trying to get her email to connect and I saw a numbe...

Grateful for Dead Obituaries
By Alan Betts

Kettle on, cut bread, insert in toaster, create interesting mix of cereals, pour boiling water into large tea bagged cup, scan front page of newspaper, turn over paper and start reading from the back. The breakfast process is well honed and produces the optimum value with minimum waste.

Starting at the back of the paper means that I hit the obituaries at the second round of toast

My first step is to scan for familiarity, next to look at the age. I have a simple classification system
85+ ...