So…. how exactly do we get in touch?
Daily Archives: October 4, 2009
Mellow fruitfulness
It’s a race against time at Chateau Naughton. Will we get enough sunshine to ripen the crop?
Flickr version here.
On this day…
… in 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit, thereby triggering the alarm in the Eisenhower Administration that led to the setting-up of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), which funded the development of the Arpanet, which led to the Internet… Read all about it here
There’s life in them thar fogeys
This morning’s Observer column.
WE ARE all slaves of some defunct economist, said Keynes, who until the recent disturbances in the banking system was widely regarded as defunct himself. But it wasn't just bankers and politicians who denied their indebtedness to ancient economic principles. Newspaper and print publishers generally also ignored the axiom that, in a competitive market, prices tend to converge on the marginal cost – the cost of producing one more unit of the good(s) in question.
The internet provides a pretty good approximation of such a market…