Airlines And Oil Companies - By Not Passing On Price Cuts You Look Like Thieves
Admittedly it is a drum I keep on banging but this is important.
In a perfect world, companies that annoy the public will be shunned and go down eventually but this does not happen.
Airlines like British Airways, Virgin, Swiss are not reducing their fuel surcharges by enough. The same is true of the oil companies who [...]
Petition To Save FireWire On Macbooks
There is only one thing less useful than a petition and that is an online petition, but I feel I should give this one some heat.
As I mentioned previously, a backlash is forming against Apple’s decision to dump FireWire from the new Macbooks.
If you are interested in at least voicing your displeasure, please do so [...]
Oil Consumption Must Continue To Drop
The price of a barrel of oil currently sits at just over $71, down from an all time high of $147.27 on July 11th 2008.
Without a doubt, the drop has been caused in part by fallng demand with people modifying their driving, transport and buying habits in order to lessen the pain that they feel [...]
An Excellent Explanation Of The Credit Crisis
One of the best (certainly the most straightforward) overview of how we got to our current financial crisis is this podcast from NPR.
If you believe the stories (and there is no reason not to) then you will want to chase the people that constructed these financial instruments right into a river.
One refreshing piece of honesty [...]
Apple’s New Macbook Range Is A Series Of Own Goals
I bought an Apple Macbook Pro in April this year and it is a machine that I love to use.
The supporting software community is better than I expected and I now have a fully fledged development environment on there, courtesy of the excellent work done by the people at MAMP.
I was quite excited at the [...]
