Tim Worstall

The Big Cheese is interviewd in The Guardian. It all started in 2010 when Forbes threw its website open to bloggers, academics and experts from all sorts of areas relating to investing and entrepreneurship. In total DVorkin now has 1,000 contributors – he hates the word “bloggers” – alongside a core staff team of 100, [...]

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An economics teacher at a high school in Miami posed a homework question to her (?) students. Here are a series of articles. The answer to your homework is who wrote them? That answer being Tim Worstall. I found this out via Twitter. Obviously. This isn’t of any importance at all of course. But worth [...]

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Thre’s a well known saying about how when a company moves into a new and luxurious office building then it’s destined for failure. Or something like that. Now what is the exact quote and where is it from? I’m thinking either Galbraith or perhaps “Up The Organisation”. But does anyone know the full quote and [...]

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Just a small thought. But could you email me with a real email addy? Couple of questions I want to ask about Cirencester. Nothing massively important, personal stuff…along the lines of whether you know the Bathurst Arms etc.

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Der Gemeinderat beschloss den Pachtvertrag zur Verpachtung und Nutzung der Abraumhalde der ehe- maligen Kupfergrube Sadisdorf. Herr Worstall will die Halde aufbereiten und metallhaltiges Erz u.a. zum Auf- schluss von Scandium gewinnen. Der Pachtvertrag läuft vorerst bis Septem- ber 2016. Die Gemeinde erhält ab Sep- tember diesen Jahres pro Monat 1.000 Euro Pacht und im [...]

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Just a thought: anyone know how to do this? Would be fun to feed my Twitter account into it. See how little actually survives the censorship process.

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Four hours ago I was freezing my butt off in – 5 oC. Now it’s a postively balmy 15 degrees plus. Wonder if it’s anything to do with that three hour nap I had in that aluminium tube with wings on?

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I’ve tried cutting a specific graph out of this .pdf and I just cannot work out how to do it at all. It entirely boggles me that cut and paste works with text and not with an image. Why? Anyway, does anyone know how, or would anyone do it for me, to get Figure 4, [...]

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Set off at 7 am this morning to drive through the blizzard to a meeting. Leave meeting around 11.30 to drive back through lots n’ lots of snow. Just sat down after I got back, had a sandwich, looked out the window. The snow’s stopped. Sigh.

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A reader here, a student who reads this site (that’s one way to fail your degree!) has been inspired to write to The Independent: Low-skilled workers in service sector jobs are paid relatively higher and work in far better conditions than their counterparts in low-skilled manufacturing and agriculture. If Ms Bennett is arguing for the [...]

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Unfortunately. No toolbar appearing: so can’t add links, italics, quotes or whatever. You’ll therefore just have to do some guessing for a bit.

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Am back off to in Czech. You will be fascinated to know that I have found the HP Sauce shop. It’s three blocks over from the Czech mining engineer’s office in Prague. Woo Hoo!

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So, this Timmy in Czech thing seems to be progressing well. Obviously, slips ‘tween cups and lips and all that but well. Which leads to a little telecoms question. As we move into production I’ll be spending some time at home, in Portugal, of course. But the bulk of the time will be split between [...]

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From a reader here: I’ve set aside a sum of money for charitable donation this year and I’m looking for a suitable charity.  I want to avoid the usual bunch of lobbyists and fake charities and instead donate to a group who make some measurable difference in the third world.  I’ve been thinking about the [...]

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Here’s something you don’t see in many countries. Pottering back from topping up the internet account this morning, going past an advertising banner for a womens’ clothes shop. Which advertises: Moda z Anglie I’m not really sure that I’ve ever thought of, either myself or in any other country, the English looked upon as style [...]

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To follow all this stuff about how appalling a cook I am (which I know, 20 years with a woman who is a good cook and who refuses to eat anything at all that I prepare beyond a cup of tea, will do that to a bloke) I am in Czech and my dinner, self [...]

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One of the blokes I need to see up here in C. Europe. One of the blokes I am staying up here to see in C Europe: is off for hols in Portugal. Could have stayed home and driven round for a drink and a chat. Humph.

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Found the Marmite! Tiny, tiny, just one jar wide of shelf space, bit of Tesco’s. And not quite HP but Tesco’s own brand “brown sauce” which appears similar. And the one that’s driving me up the wall. Salad Cream. Yeah, I know, chemical muck but I like it. And I know that damn Tesco’s sells [...]

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Cuisine again. The Wurstellkraut was, umm, interestingish. Not sufficiently so that I would buy it again over regular kraut. But, you know, try the local stuff and see what happens, right? I do enjoy the way that German supermarkets have the spices, the hot stuff, on a separate little shelf well away from any of [...]

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OK, so, to avoid me going blind on this tiny screen on this netbook while I’m up here for a few months I’ve bought a 20 something inch monitor for what, 150 quid. 100 maybe. So, I’ve got it connected to the netbook. I’ve got two screens running. They’re showing exactly the same stuff. I [...]

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