Tim Worstall

Now, a campaign to overturn the Act’s deadly Section 5 has brought together an unlikely coalition of Right and Left politicians, libertarians and social conservatives, under the inviting banner: “Feel free to insult me”. The challenge is to do so more amusingly, more cuttingly but not necessarily more coherently than late night Arnald. Have at [...]

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So, I wrote that paper for the IEA on the FTT. Which was published in a journal. So I’ve actually produced a piece in a peer reviewed journal. Which sorta makes me a scientist. Yes, I know, more a comment on low barriers to entry than anything else. But I find that this paper has [...]

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Please celebrate Earth Hour by turning the lights on.

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Something that’s confusing me a little bit. That Lords committee (and yes, thank you Arnald, I do now get your little joke, it’s rather better than I had at first assumed) on the FTT. I’ve seen the written evidence, indeed have linked to it. Yet there’s some mention of their quoting me (as Mr. Forbes [...]

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“This American Life” has raised questions about the adaptation of AGONY/ECSTASY we created for their program. Here is my response: I stand by my work. My show is a theatrical piece whose goal is to create a human connection between our gorgeous devices and the brutal circumstances from which they emerge. It uses a combination [...]

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OK, reasonably trivial I agree but still. If you search for “Apple Boycott” (with or without the quote marks) on Google the first piece that comes up is “Apple Boycott: People Are Spouting Nonsense about Chinese Manufacturing”. The second is “The Apple Boycott Graphically Explained”. These two pieces, umm, by me, are about the absurdity [...]

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So, I decided not to take the 6 am flight out of Dresden this morning, thinking that the 9 am would be much better. You know, not necessary to get up at the crack of sparrow fart in order to get to the airport? And I failed to check the train times: on Saturdays there [...]

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So, back from a day trip to Usti nad Labem to look at a factory (“Yes, that’s a factory OK, I’ve seen one before you know!”) and I’m at the train station waiting for the Hamburg Express. Which is going to arrive/leave from platorm 3. So I am on platform 3. The station has 6 [...]

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Weather for Freiberg, Germany -11°C | °F Mon Tue Wed Thu Clear Wind: E at 11 km/h Humidity: 38% -11° -20° -11° -15° -7° -20° -2° -17° Amazingly, I’ve decided not to walk 5 km along the road to go and look a second hand cars today.

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It is entirely possible to be “an arrogant jerk with an ego complex the size of Texas” and still know what you are talking about.

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Are you a ‘hate reader’? Tell us if you deliberately read articles you know you’ll dislike, just so you can take issue with them

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Or not, as the case may be. One of my posts at Forbes has been tweeted by that nice Mr. Fry to his 3. something million followers. This one. It’ll be interesting to see the end result….especially given that I’m paid on traffic over there.

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Which reads, in full: dear tim, your writing is terrible. please stop writing. do not reply. best wishes, M I rather hope that it’s not this Michael Barbazette: Michael Barbazette Primary/Secondary Education Professional Greater Chicago Area Primary/Secondary Education Past SES Tutor at The Princeton Review Tutor at UNO Charter School Network Education DePaul University For [...]

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OK, this is now solved, thanks to everyone who gave advice. I know have a useless 1 GB memory card and a 2GB in the machine, courtesy of the little shop around the corner. Fortunately, as is true all over the world, computer nerds speak English. So I’ve now 1 GB of free RAM with [...]

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Back in the ‘Ore Mountains, lookin’ fer slags. Today is the day to buy a desk and a chair! Woo Hoo! More typing when I don’t have to sit on the floor to do it.

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I know this street very well. Used to work in one of the restaurants you can see up on the high pavement, at another just up the little alleyway there. Bought my flat from the estate agents you can see (upside down, when the altercation is going on) at the other end of the street. [...]

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This was something I found really rather odd in my recent trip to the ‘Ore Mountains. I did everything right of course, I’ve done this turn up in a new country and get organised thing before. You’ve no references, no contacts, no credit record, but you’ve got to find a flat, rent it, get the [...]

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What I want is to get the table on page 51 of this .pdf into a form that I can stick it in a blog post. Cut and paste doesn’t work, the formatting gets lost. Printing to a .prn file does something I know not what. So, err, how do I get Table 2 into [...]

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If you’ve got an old desktop computer with as little as 348MB of RAM, it could be fun and useful again with the help of Jolicloud. As little as 384 MB of RAM? Dang, I still recall the day my XT was upgraded to 640 kb.

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