Thursday, March 28th, 2024

I bought this gadget last week. It’s called ‘fitbit’ and it’s a small device that you clip on to your clothes that measures how many steps that you walk etc. Of course I haven’t actually used it yet, although it is set up waiting for the next time I actually get out of the chair […]

I never usually read the paperwork that comes with credit card statements. However, flicking through a recent Virgin credit card statement, I found this: I like this way of presenting information. All too often today any information is presented in a really unclear form, but this simply describes what happens when you change the way […]

I’m usually an aisle person, but on this last San Francisco journey I ended up having window seats. I like the ability to select my seat in advance with Virgin, but I hate the system that stops you from doing so once 60% of the seats are allocated. Anyways, the benefit of a window seat […]

I think this sums up UK infrastructure. Here’s the exit (and entrance) for a tube line at Paddington Station (rail station where the express train to Heathrow airport goes from): A complete and utter bottleneck..