More Oil Price News
Have you seen the way that the fall in crude oil prices is being reported now: the price is slipping they are saying. Three weeks ago they were bemoaning the apparently inexorable rise in the price of crude ... implying it is such a bad thing. Now they are viewing it from the eyes of the investor who has bought at the top of the market and who is now suffering.
They are trying to claim now that demand for crude is reducing and that is why the price is falling back. The strengthening dollar is seen as a factor too. It’s hardly strengthened though has it? Just take a look at the current exchange rates and see if you think the Dollar has strengthened.
Duncan Williamson
MS Office Live
Microsoft Office Live looked like a good idea so I tried it. I uploaded some files, I created directories and I moved some files around. I uploaded word files, powerpoint files, excel files, jpeg files and pdf files.
All worked nicely so I thought I would share some files with a colleague.
It performed embarrassingly badly so that I had to write and apologise and promise never to try to send them my files in that way again.
Bill Gates has retired? He should never have been allowed to get away with his laughable systems in the first place if you as k.
DW
Oil Price
There is a story in today's The Gulf Today newspaper that says that the UAE will be significantly reducing its output of oil for 40 days later this year. This is so that they can carry out essential maintenance of their equipment.
That's the world's fifth largest oil exporter cutting output by up to 7.5%.
Did the price of oil rocket today? Has there been a price spike?
And they say recent surges in the price of crude oil is based on supply and demand.
My @rse!!!
Duncan Williamson
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Sky products
I have tried to upgrade to Sky+ today. I tried through interactive television and got an error message. It told me to call a number and did ... I spent ages waiting but for nothing.
I went online and logged in to try again. Two screens into the process I was given an error message and told to call a number.
I called the number and hung on for ages but no one wanted to or could talk to me.
I probably won't bother with Sky+ now.
Discuss this true story!
Duncan Williamson
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Economic Indicators
I have written before about my three key economic indicators for developing countries:
+ What the girls are wearing
+ What the boys are driving
+ How many houses, flats and offices are being refurbished
Take a look at the article in the FT today that gives neck tie sales as an indicator for the UK at the moment. Indicative of a down turn apparently.
Duncan Williamson
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There's a Recession ... isn't there?
There's that Little Britain character famous for saying, "yeah, but, no, but, yeah, but, no, but ... "
This is what it's like watching business news from around the world.
British financial reporters have spent at least five years talking about the coming doom in the UK housing market. When the doom arrived it was for many reasons the doomsters had not thought about. Right answer, wrong working our maths teacher used to say!
I watched the BBC Business News from Singapore the other day and they trotted out this poor chap who said that there's probably going to be a recession. Yeah, there is a recession. Oh!, the official definition of a recession ... but, we think there will be a recession. Maybe starting in July.
Keep talking lads!
Duncan Williamson
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Massive new idea from Procter& Gamble ... not
P&G have come up with this fantastic and revolutionary way of managing their production resources: put them near to the customer.
Erm, isn't that what we used to do before all of those bright young things decided that outsourcing and centralising and optimising were the best things since sliced bread?
I learned these things under the heading of the location of factors of production. Wonder what they call it these days?
Duncan Williamson
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