tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135620462024-03-13T10:47:44.626+00:00Infinitives UnsplitWoolly Thinking Expunged!<br>
The Harsh Spotlight of Ridicule Shone upon Moral Equivalence!<br><br>
Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comBlogger1095125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-16802121593076820712011-08-25T14:41:00.002+01:002011-08-25T14:48:35.073+01:00Looking for webhosting<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->
<br />I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">think</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">we</span>'<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">re</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">all</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">up</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">speed</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">now</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">on</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">way</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">which</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">run</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">business</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">these</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">days</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">we</span>'<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">ve</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">got</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">have</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">presence</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">on</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">the</span> web? <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Yes</span>?
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<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">We</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">don</span>'t <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">have</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">running</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">business</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">entirely</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">on</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">the</span> web, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">don</span>'t <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">have</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">selling</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">something</span> digital <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">in</span> a digital <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">or</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">online</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">manner</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">But</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">we</span> do <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">at</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">very</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47">least</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48">need</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49">have</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50">presence</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51">something</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52">telling</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53">people</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55">we</span>'<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56">re</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57">here</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58">and</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59">what</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60">we</span> do.
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<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_61">And</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_62">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63">first</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64">stage</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66">getting</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68">presence</span> is to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_69">look</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_70">into</span> <a href="http://www.websitehosting.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_71">webhosting</span></a>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_72">The</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_73">various</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_74">different</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_75">places</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_76">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_77">can</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_78">put</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_79">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_80">presence</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_81">offer</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_82">diferent</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_83">bundles</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_84">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_85">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_86">things</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_87">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_88">might</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_89">want</span>.<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_90">Different</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_91">levels</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_92">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_93">reliability</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_94">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_95">uptime</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_96">different</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_97">bundles</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_98">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_99">memory</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_100">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_101">bandwidth</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_102">Which</span> is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_103">why</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_104">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_105">might</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_106">want</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_107">check</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_108">out</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_109">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_110">linked</span> site.
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<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_111">They</span>'<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_112">ve</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_113">section</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_114">of</span> <a href="http://www.websitehosting.com/reviews/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_115">hosting</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_116">reviews</span></a> for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_117">example</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_118">another</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_119">on</span> <a href="http://www.websitehosting.com/category/news/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_120">hosting</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_121">news</span></a>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_122">If</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_123">you</span>'<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_124">re</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_125">thinking</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_126">about</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_127">what</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_128">your</span> web <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_129">presence</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_130">should</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_131">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_132">and</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_133">where</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_134">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_135">should</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_136">put</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_137">it</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_138">worth</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_139">having</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_140">rootle</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_141">around</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_142">that</span> site to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_143">see</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_144">what</span>'s <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_145">on</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_146">offer</span>.
<br />Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-69466748862175981852011-07-24T13:35:00.002+01:002011-07-24T13:41:53.739+01:00Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>--><br />I doubt there's all that much surprise, shock yes, regret yes, but surprise perhaps not, about the death of Amy Winehouse. The thing is though, given the age of her death, <a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/timworstall/2011/07/24/amy-winehouse-and-the-27-club/">Amy Winehouse is in the 27 Club</a>.<br /><br />That's the club you really don't want to belong to, of musicians who have died at that young age.<br /><br />Now it all might just be coincidence but perhaps it isn't:<br /><br /><blockquote>Almost all of us go through a wild stage at some point but almost all of us are financially constrained when we do. Not so for those who earn millions in their teens or soon after. That spike in the death rate at age 27 can thus be seen as a marker of how long unconstrained excess takes to kill.</blockquote><br /><br />That's one theory anyway.<br /><br />The other question that arises is that she left a large fortune behind her. So <a href="http://www.examiner.com/uk-headlines-in-national/amy-winehouse-who-inherits-all-the-money">who gets Amy Winehouse's money</a>?<br /><br /><blockquote>Even in the presence of a will written pre-marriage which states otherwise the surviving spouse, or ex-spouse, will again be the natural inheritor. Only if, and I repeat only if, there was a new will written post-divorce which specifically left the estate elsewhere would Blake Fielder-Civil not be the natural inheritor of Winehouse’s estate.</blockquote><br /><br />While a marriage is a contrat that over rides all previous wills, divorce isn't a contract which over rides the marriage contract assumptions about inheritance.<br /><br />So, unless she wrote a new will after the divorce then it looks like it could be her ex, Bruce Fielder-Civil, who gets all the money.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-50997270753552792082011-07-15T14:43:00.002+01:002011-07-15T14:51:34.216+01:00Weaponry sales<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->One of the weirder episodes of my life was when I went into weapons sales.<br /><br />No, not quite like that, I wasn't shipping tanks off to Ethiopia and places like that. Rather, it was at the end of communism and I was working in Russia. The military factories there, given the end of the Soviet military altogether, were simply lost. Didn't have any orders, weren't getting any money: but given the way the old system rumbled on for a few years, they were still getting raw materials.<br /><br />This led to some pretty strange decisions by certain factories: there was one that used their plastic injection moulding machines to make sex toys. Didn't work very well as they didn't really know all that well what sex toys were. I didn't get involved with them but I did with the guys making night sights. It was extremely frustrating actually: there was more money to be made (by everyone) by simply taking the germanium metal they were using and selling that. They got it at such a subsidised price that the profit was larger doing that than actually making a night sight.<br /><br />We got that fixed though and ended up shipping quite a few off to various places. Then, of course, everyone started tightening up on the rules and we ended up in a morass of paperwork so bad that the entire business just wasn't worth the while.<br /><br />The whole experience made me rather jealous of people doing the same sort of work in the US. Those Second Amendment protections mean that they simply don't face the same sort of problems. They can ship <a href="http://www.gggaz.com/ar-15-m4-accessories.html">ar 15 accessories</a>, <a href="http://www.gggaz.com/ar-15-m4-accessories.html">m4 accessories</a>, these sorts of things, as they please and to whom they wish.<br /><br />All just so much easier, you know?Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-31747654916819645382011-07-13T15:13:00.002+01:002011-07-13T15:23:52.227+01:00Understanding the American medical system<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>--><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">It</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">can</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">confusing</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">when</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">first</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">try</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">understand</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">American</span> medical <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">system</span>: <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">it</span>'s <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">so</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">different</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">from</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">what</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">happens</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">across</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">rest</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">world</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">The</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">important</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">point</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">remember</span> is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">it</span> is, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">despite</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">government</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">actually</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">paying</span> for a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">good</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">chunk</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">it</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">and</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">insurance</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">companies</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">most</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">rest</span>, a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47">free</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48">market</span> medical <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49">system</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50">This</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51">means</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54">various</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55">providers</span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56">all</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58">competition</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59">with</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60">each</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_61">other</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_62">try</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63">and</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64">get</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66">business</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68">tending</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_69">your</span> medical <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_70">needs</span>.<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_71">So</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_72">unlike</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_73">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_74">UK</span> for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_75">example</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_76">where</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_77">if</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_78">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_79">need</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_80">travel</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_81">vaccinations</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_82">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_83">just</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_84">go</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_85">the</span> local general <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_86">practitioner</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_87">who</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_88">deals</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_89">with</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_90">almost</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_91">all</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_92">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_93">your</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_94">other</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_95">first</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_96">line</span> medical <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_97">care</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_98">if</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_99">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_100">were</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_101">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_102">say</span> San Francisco, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_103">you</span>'d <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_104">need</span> to do a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_105">search</span> for a <a href="http://www.onemedical.com/sf/services/travel-vaccinations"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_106">travel</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_107">clinic</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_108">sf</span></a>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_109">This</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_110">would</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_111">give</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_112">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_113">those</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_114">groups</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_115">and</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_116">physicians</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_117">in</span> San Francisco <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_118">who</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_119">specialise</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_120">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_121">travel</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_122">vaccinations</span>.<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_123">This</span> is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_124">pretty</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_125">much</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_126">true</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_127">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_128">all</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_129">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_130">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_131">US</span> medical <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_132">system</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_133">That</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_134">specific</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_135">tasks</span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_136">handled</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_137">by</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_138">experts</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_139">and</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_140">specific</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_141">clinics</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_142">much</span> more <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_143">than</span> is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_144">common</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_145">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_146">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_147">health</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_148">care</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_149">system</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_150">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_151">other</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_152">countries</span>.<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_153">Yes</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_154">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_155">course</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_156">they</span> do <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_157">have</span> general <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_158">physicians</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_159">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_160">don</span>'t <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_161">need</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_162">try</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_163">and</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_164">work</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_165">out</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_166">what</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_167">problem</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_168">you</span>'<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_169">ve</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_170">got</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_171">on</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_172">your</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_173">own</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_174">before</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_175">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_176">can</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_177">find</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_178">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_179">correct</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_180">specialist</span>. For <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_181">example</span>, a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_182">search</span> for <a href="http://www.onemedical.com/nyc/how-we-work/physicians"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_183">doctors</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_184">manhattan</span></a> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_185">would</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_186">give</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_187">you</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_188">listing</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_189">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_190">such</span> general <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_191">purpose</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_192">physicians</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_193">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_194">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_195">part</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_196">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_197">New</span> York.<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_198">But</span> as I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_199">say</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_200">the</span> general <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_201">way</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_202">look</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_203">at</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_204">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_205">US</span> medical <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_206">system</span> is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_207">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_208">there</span>'s a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_209">huge</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_210">network</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_211">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_212">different</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_213">specialists</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_214">each</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_215">chasing</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_216">your</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_217">custom</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_218">Which</span> is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_219">one</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_220">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_221">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_222">reasons</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_223">why</span>, as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_224">long</span> as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_225">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_226">can</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_227">afford</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_228">it</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_229">or</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_230">have</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_231">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_232">right</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_233">insurance</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_234">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_235">system</span> is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_236">so</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_237">good</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_238">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_239">course</span>.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-74177598945654440632011-07-08T10:33:00.002+01:002011-07-08T10:44:18.896+01:00Stick gold in your IRA<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->One of the things that few people seem to realise is that it's possible to have a <a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/gold-ira-and-gold-401k-accounts.html">gold IRA</a>. There are some limitations and specific rules that have to be followed but is possible to have part of your savings as <a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/gold-ira-and-gold-401k-accounts.html">IRA gold</a>.<br /><br />It's also possible to have a <a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/gold-ira-and-gold-401k-accounts.html">gold 401k</a>, this meaning that you can have as part of your <a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/gold-ira-and-gold-401k-accounts.html">401k gold</a>.<br /><br />The real question of course is whether something like this, or a <a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/gold-ira-and-gold-401k-accounts.html">gold IRA transfer</a>, is a good idea or not?<br /><br />Leave aside the vagaries of the gold market, that we're at an all time nominal high (although not yet in real terms) and think about the basis of any decent savings plan: diversification.<br /><br />There is no such thing as an absolutely secure investment: there is also no such thing as an absolutely, no doubt about it, profitable one nor is there one that is entirely inflation proof. All investments are a mixture of the three.<br /><br />And the point of diversification is to make sure that we have a series of different investments, each of which has a different mixture of the three characteristics. We do want to have some "high growth" stocks despite the risks attatched to them. We do want to have some Treasury bonds, despite the low returns, for they are also low risk. But the risk to bonds is inflation: so we also want to have some gold, for while gold might not earn us investment income it has historically been a very good hedge against inflation.<br /><br />Having all your retirement funds in gold probably isn't a good idea, just like having all your savings in the latest internet darling that's going to replace Google real soon now isn't a good idea.<br /><br />But a judicious mix of different investments, diversification, is a good idea.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-52249471351162698292011-06-16T11:29:00.002+01:002011-06-16T11:34:47.887+01:00Buying blinds on the netAs regular readers will know we've been restoring and sorting out a couple of houses here in sunny climes for some time now. Fortunately we've got past the building stage and are now just doing the last bit of fitting out.<br /><br />Which, as every male knows and dreads, means traipsing around the shops looking at home furnishings. Absolutely not my favourite activity, even if the wife seems to enjoy it all (fortunately, not too much otherwise I'd nver get her out of such stores).<br /><br />As a way of reducing the pain on me we've been looking at <a href="http://www.tuiss.co.uk/">blinds</a> on the internet. Where we are they're a necessity. In the summer, it being sunny climes, we need them to keep the place cool and also to stop the light itself from fading all of the furniture.<br /><br />In the winter, given the way in which houses here are built for the warm, not the cold, we need them to keep the heat in. So we must have them yet those out of town stores just don't do it for me.<br /><br />Fortunately, as you can see at that link. I've been able to find a way to get them from my desk. Hurrah! we get to finish the house and I don't have to leave it.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-10790840878640913852011-03-19T15:14:00.002+00:002011-03-19T15:19:02.733+00:00Algarve Golf Association<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>--><br />We've just startde a new little adventure called <a href="http://algarvegolfllp.com/">Algarve Golf</a>. It's actually two things working together. The Southern Golf Association, which is a not for profit members club and Algarve Golf LLP, which is a reseller of golf and other sporting tickets.<br /><br />The aim is that between the two we can bundle together the economic weight of our members and thus negotiate discounts on the green fees at various golf courses around the Algarve.<br /><br />And it's working too. We don't even launch until tomorrow but if you become a member of <a href="http://algarvegolfllp.com/">Algarve Golf</a> then we can provide you with discounted green fees on about half of the golf courses in the Algarve.<br /><br />Plus money off scuba diving, parachuting, Zoomarine, Splash and Slide and a variety of bars and restaurants along the coast.<br /><br />There are of course other golf associations in the area: but we're the only one with a club house and the only one that provides money off things other than golf.<br /><br />So, if you're coming down here, you might want to think about signing up for <a href="http://algarvegolfllp.com/">Algarve Golf</a>. You'll save much more than it will cost you...Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-17511976897361549822011-02-04T11:22:00.002+00:002011-02-04T11:27:56.709+00:00Where to get your ceiling fans<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->As regular readers will know we've been working on sorting out these two houses down here for some time. And living, as we do, in a warm climate we've needed to work on how to keep things cool more than we have on how to keep them warm. Log fires do fine for the latter but <a href="http://www.hansenwholesale.com/">ceiling fans</a> are definitely necessary for the heat.<br /><br />So of course I've been roaming around online looking for the best place to get such a <a href="http://www.hansenwholesale.com/ceilingfans/">ceiling fan</a>. And fortunately I've been able to find a great resource. In fact, you can <a href="http://www.hansenwholesale.com/ceilingfans/bestfans.asp">find out who makes the best ceiling fans here</a>. It's a really good guide, taking you through het various technologies, styles and prices. How big do you want it to be, how fast do you need it to turn. what would you like it to be made of? And perhaps most importantly, what would you like it to look like?<br /><br />Of course, the site is run by <a href="http://www.hansenwholesale.com/">Hansen Wholesale Ceiling Fans</a>, but that's fine. Sure they'd like you to buy from them but they are providing a great set of information about the whole field, which is great. The educated consumer is the better customer after all.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-70412754066071562152011-01-28T21:38:00.002+00:002011-01-28T21:48:55.464+00:00So just what is the price of gold?<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->I think we're all aware that gold has been a great investment for those who got into it a year or two back. Yes?<br /><br />The thing is, when riding an investment wave like this, it's necessary to keep an eye on what the prices, the <a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/Gold-Prices-Gold-Price-Price-of-Gold-Gold-Spot-Current-Gold-Prices-Gold-Charts/">gold prices</a> that is, actually are. For while prices might be rising at present, the one thing we do know about rising prices is that eventually they will fall.<br /><br />No, this doesn't mean that the <a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/Gold-Prices-Gold-Price-Price-of-Gold-Gold-Spot-Current-Gold-Prices-Gold-Charts/">gold price</a> is going to fall below its current level. It could go much higher than it is now and then fall without coming back to current levels.<br /><br />All I'm trying to point out is that if you're going to play in this market you need to keep a close eye on the <a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/Gold-Prices-Gold-Price-Price-of-Gold-Gold-Spot-Current-Gold-Prices-Gold-Charts/">price of gold</a>.<br /><br />Something which, fortunately, you can indeed do simply by clicking through one of those links.<br /><br />And finally, yes, I know, what you want to know is whether I am a buyer of seller of gold?<br /><br />Well, actually, neither, as my day job is in the metals trade. So when I diversify my investment portfolio, I go away from metals, not towards them.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-25049259751046438972011-01-08T15:21:00.002+00:002011-01-08T15:28:03.246+00:00Where should I get my hosting?<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->I think we all know by now that we really do need to have an outlet on hte web if we're going to have a business these days? Yes? Even if we're not going to be a "web business", we need to have a website, just as no one would these days dream of having a business without a phone line?<br /><br />Well, quite, but having understood that we do rather need to go through the various alternatives about how we could do this: are we going to try selling from the site? Is it for infomation only? Just so that people know we exist? Perhaps it might not be a selling interface, but something people can refer to for post sales technical information?<br /><br />The reason we need to work these things out is because upon those decisions will rest the decision of who to use for what type of <a href="http://www.superb.net/web-hosting/">web hosting</a>. We might just need the plain vanilla availability of such hosting. Or we might with higher volumes be much more interested in <a href="http://www.superb.net/managed-hosting/">managed hosting</a>. Or if we're going to be going further than that, then perhaps <a href="http://www.superb.net/colocation/">colocation</a> would be the right answer.<br /><br />This is the thing: while we might know that we need a web presence, until we've worked out what that presence is going to be ew can't decide upon the most basic technical decision, what sort of hosting we should have.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-85390838701844023142010-10-19T18:35:00.002+01:002010-10-19T18:42:31.103+01:00The coming changes in education<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->It's just one of those things about new inventions that we don't really know what they're going to be used for, how they'll change the world, until they've been out there for a bit and we can observe what people are actually using them for. for example, this internet thing we're on right now. Most seem to think that it's for porn and stealing MP3 files.<br /><br />However, I think there's a very good argument that what it's really going to change is education. For at the moment we gather everyone together in one room and someone talks at them. This is the essential education model and it's been the same for the past few centuries. What the internet allows is that people don't all have to be gathered together in order to be talked at.<br /><br />Have a look at this site for example. <a href="http://www.tutornext.com/math-help">Free math help</a> is their opening offer. But that's really the some on. What they're really offering is one to one tutoring over the 'net. Maths (and they work on other subjects too) is no longer something you learn in groups of 20 or more. You can work at your own pace, with guidance.<br /><br />They go as far as <a href="http://www.tutornext.com/algebra-help">college algebra</a> and <a href="http://www.tutornext.com/factoring-polynomials">factoring polynomials</a> as well. I really do think that this sort of use of the internet is the wave of the future: so much so that I think the industry that will be changed most over the long term will be education.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-56763827233535264702010-10-19T18:27:00.002+01:002010-10-19T18:33:55.631+01:00Where to find your webhosting<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->As we've pointed out several times around here there's no way a business is going to survive without having a web presence these days. No, you don't have to go the whole hog and only sell over the web, like, say, Amazon does. But you do need at least something to tell potential customers that you're there. If you're not in the search engines, you're just not going to be getting the business, your competitors will be.<br /><br />The first stage of getting onto the web of course is to work out who your <a href="http://webhostingrating.com/">webhosting</a> is going to be with. Are you really going to go and try and sell everything on the web? Market, sell, upgrade, interact with your customers purel;y online? In which case you're almost certainly going to want to look at <a href="http://webhostingrating.com/dedicated-server-hosting/">dedicated server hosting</a>. That's what's going to give you the control over the platform that you need.<br /><br />Or perhaps you just want a small site to make sure that potential customers can find you? In which case you might want to look at something much simpler (and cheaper) like <a href="http://webhostingrating.com/wordpress-hosting/">Wordpress hosting</a>.<br /><br />But whichever end of the market you're aiming for, or even whatever point in the middle, click through those links to see a useful site which can give you the details on who and where you can get those services.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-54420916194151660842010-09-29T18:28:00.002+01:002010-09-29T18:35:12.317+01:00Understanding spread bettingUnderstanding <a href="http://www.freebettingonline.co.uk/spread-betting/">spread betting</a><!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>--> can be a little tricky at first. The basic point is that one isn't betting upon so much the outcome of an event but upon the precision of your forecast of an event. To think in horse racing terms, we're not trying to bet on which horse wins the race: but by how many lengths the horse wins the race.<br /><br />Now it's true we tend not to do <a href="http://www.freebettingonline.co.uk/spread-betting/">spread betting</a> on horses in that manner: but there's an entire world out there of events upon which we can. Sports events, where we've got points being socred, are an obvious place for us to be doing that. If a soccer match could be won 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 and so on, there are a number of possibilities to be more accurate than simply Team X to win. Given that there are more possible outcomes of course odds tend to be larger. Thus the excitement is greater. As are all the variations in what can be done.<br /><br />But as with anything else new it's necessary to understand the basics and <a href="http://www.freebettingonline.co.uk/spread-betting/">spread betting</a> is no different. Fortunately there's anice site, which you can get to simply by clicking through any of the links, that can guide you through this process. Perhaps most importantly, guide you as to which companies are offering inducements to you to try out their systems and platforms on which to do such betting. Especially the free bets they offer.<br /><br />Good luck and have fun!Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-55412646514579946432010-09-29T18:13:00.003+01:002010-09-29T18:17:43.754+01:00The story of Melissa Petro<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->I have to admit that I find all of this absolutely fascinating, the story of Melissa Petro. To give you a<a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bx_teach_pected_posure_6wwZTU34XO4wnvA9RiTvUK"> flavour</a>.<br /><blockquote><br />Hooker-turned-teacher Melissa Petro yesterday admitted she knew her sex-for-hire past would land her in detention.<br /><br />"Didn't you see this coming?" fellow Bronx teacher Ruben Brosbe asked Petro via Facebook after her sordid former sideline was revealed in The Post.<br /><br />"We talked about it on the first day of training," Brosbe reminded his pal.<br /><br />"Of course I saw it coming," the feisty Petro, a third-year art teacher at PS 70, wrote back.<br /><br />Brosbe and Petro declined comment yesterday.<br /><br />But Petro -- who has been reassigned amid an Education Department probe of her blogging about her exploits as a "former sex worker" -- joked on Facebook about how she hoped a car outside was a teachers-union escort and not "one of the 200 creepy dudes now trying to 'friend' me."</blockquote><br /><br />Now the thing is you see, what's supposed to happen in Nwe York once youn qualify as a teacher is that you spend three yeasr on a sort of probation. Only after you've passed that probation do you get tenure: effectively, it''s near impossible for you to get fired at that point.<br /><br />The claimed aim of this three year period is to make sure that you are of sound character, of the sort of moral type, that peeps would like to have teaching their children. And there are supposed to be background checks and so on to make sure this is true.<br /><br />While in this three year period Ms. Petro was not exactly quiet about her former trade as a hooker. She was in fact blogging about it under her own name. And yet those checks didn't manage to pick up on it.<br /><br />Something of an embarrassment for those running the checks, don't you think?Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-85397301037572225802010-09-29T17:54:00.002+01:002010-09-29T18:04:42.084+01:00On the subject of mens' clothes<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->Hmm, actually, should that be <a href="http://www.republic.co.uk/Shop/Mens/icat/mns">men's clothes</a> or mens' clothes? Our approximation at solving the riddle of the Greengrocer's Apostrophe of the day perhaps (or is that Greengrocers'?). The clue to where the placement of that little piece of punctuation is is whether we are talking of clothes for a man or clothes for many men. And it could indeed still be both for while they might be clothes that would appeal to many men we usually expect that they'll be worn by just the one man. At any particular time at least.<br /><br />Hmm, anyway, to get away from the pedantry, this is of course the time of year when wardrobes get cleared out, last year's warm winter woollies checked for signs of moth damage and then the necessary replacements found. Of course, the necessity of topping up the <a href="http://www.republic.co.uk/Shop/Mens/icat/mns">men's clothes</a> selection foudn in said wardrobes does mean that one is also able to advance one's look to this season's fashions rather than being, like so many of our fellow Brits, stuck somewhere around 2002. Or, in particulalry sad cases, whatever year one's mother is stuck in when she buys your clothes for you.<br /><br />Which leads us to a little recommendation if you are indeed on the hunt for expansions in the selection of <a href="http://www.republic.co.uk/Shop/Mens/icat/mns">men's clothes</a> available to you. Just click through any of the links and you'll be taken to a site carrying the best of the best, up to date fashion for men. There's free delivery (if you're qquick) on orders over £50 and there's even a student discount. And if you don't like online shopping then there's a store locator so you can find out where to find the clothes in meatspace. What more could you possibly want?Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-38543650724534883912010-09-28T18:57:00.002+01:002010-09-28T19:02:36.015+01:00How could Jessica Alba appear naked?<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->Quite, how could Jessica Alba appear naked in a movie when she'd told us all that she wasn't going to do something like that. She is an actress by gum and nudity to turn on the audience is something done purely by starlets, the young wannabees, not something done by those who can actually act.<br /><br />And yet there she is, Jessica Alba in all her naked, nude, glory in her new movie Machete. So how can this come about? Actually, this <a href="http://www.examiner.com/uk-headlines-in-national/jessica-alba-naked-or-is-she">Jessica Alba naked</a> thing is quite simple. Here's how you do it:<br /><br /><blockquote><p id="bodycopy">Jessica Alba looks like she has broken her promise never to strip off for a movie role.</p> <p>But her white undies in the shot were actually digitally removed in Machete.</p> </blockquote><br /><br />Yes, that's right kiddies. You only think that you're seeing Jessica Alba nude. Jessica Alba knows that she filmed the scene in a bikini. What you're seeing is just the digital pixels that someone has painted for you.<br /><br />So that's how you can have an actress both naked on film and not naked on film and thus is artistic integrity preserved.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-18503871684865899982010-09-28T18:46:00.003+01:002010-09-28T18:56:57.835+01:00Cool jeans online<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->Yes, it's time to stock up that winter wardrobe and get ready for the joys of the British winter. By now, the end of September, we've already had the traditional seasonal turning points of successive Daily Mail headlines telling us that we're in for a frozen winter, Indian summer is here and on the third day, why the Met Office is always wrong. Even though said Met is more consistent than Daily Mail headlines. And this season's essential wardrobe component is, as it has been for the past 30 years or so, a few pairs of <a href="http://www.designerwear.co.uk/menswear-c1/jeans-c7">cool jeans</a>.<br /><br />No, this isn't, of course, referring to jeans which will fail to do their job of keeping out that British winter. Far from it, we are not using the word cool in that sense. <a href="http://www.designerwear.co.uk/menswear-c1/jeans-c7">Cool jeans</a> refers rather to fashion, to what is hip n' happenin', what is, with a bit of good luck and a following wind, going to raise the temperature not lower it as your display of current fashionability increases the number of people who want to get close to you. Hopefully, if all goes well, very close, inside your jeans type close.<br /><br />And where better to get your <a href="http://www.designerwear.co.uk/menswear-c1/jeans-c7">cool jeans</a> than online? As we all know the greatest concern facing us all at present is the climate (no, this is very different from the weather complained of above) and we'd all like to do our bit to make sure that that climate doesn't get any worse. And as that report in the papers yesterday said, as long as the delivery truck is delivering more than 25 items (and they all do, they all do) then there are fewer carbon emissions than if we went down to the shops ourselves individually. Save the planet and look good at the same time?<br /><br />Bit of a bargain, surely?Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-63439210968135628892010-09-26T19:51:00.002+01:002010-09-26T19:55:33.667+01:00Is Blanket Jackson really British?<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->Could it be true that Blanket Jackson, Michael Jackson's son, is really British? Or at least part British?<br /><br />That's the claim being made by a former bodyguard to Michael Jackson at least. He says that he was offered $500,000 to make a donation, a fee which he turned down, but he did make the donation. And at about the right time for the conception to have been <a href="http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-national/blanket-jackson-he-s-british">possible</a>.<br /><br /><p> <em>MICHAEL Jackson's former British bodyguard Matt Fiddes will this week claim he is the biological father of the dead star's youngest son Blanket.</em></p> <p> Fiddes, of Barnstaple, Devon, will tell Australian TV he fathered the eight-year-old by sperm donation for nothing - turning down a £500,000 offer from the superstar. He has told pals he will fight for custody if anything happens to Jacko's mum Katherine.<br /></p><p>He's obviously going to have a fight on his hands over that claiming custody though. For a start, Diana Ross is named in Jackson's will as being the next in line to take custody. But more than that, assuming that they completed the paperwork for a standard donation, he will have given up all his parental rights anyway.</p><p>Hey, the story might even be true as well but I doubt very much that anyone's going to let such a rich child potter off with a claimed but unproven sperm donor.<br /></p>Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-47523074146211122592010-09-26T19:41:00.002+01:002010-09-26T19:50:24.843+01:00Where to play bingo: online of course!<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->The world of bingo has been rather turned on its head of late: the last decade has seen what will probably be the death knell of the industry, one that only really grew after WWII. Well, the death of the bingo industry in bingo halls that is, not the death of <a href="http://ladies.888.com/">bingo games</a> themselves: those atre just migrating online. There's a number of different things that have caused thisw death and it's worth running through them for some seem almost deliberate and others, well, that's just the way it is.<br /><br />The most obvious problem that the bingo halls have had is the smoking ban. The people who were running them all make exactly the same point. Attendance dropped off right at the time of the ban and it simply hasn't risen again since. And this in itself causes further losses in attendance: <a href="http://ladies.888.com/">bingo games</a>, while being just as popular as ever, don't work all that well in large but empty halls. Something of a coordination problem there.<br /><br />But the other major one, the one that's just happenstance, is the rise of the online <a href="http://ladies.888.com/">bingo games</a>. This is partly the availability of the technology, it simply wasn't possible to do this on any large scale only a decade ago. That the availability of this technology coincided with the smoking ban is just that: happenstance. But it does mean that those who like their game can do so from the comfort of their front rooms now, and simply don't need to brave the weather nor stop smoking while they play.<br /><br />Bingo just isn't going to go back to the halls, whatever people try to do about it and with that ends one of the great post war leisure activities: beaten by a combination of technological revolution and government stupidity.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-12251547066262029732010-09-26T19:01:00.002+01:002010-09-26T19:09:27.591+01:00Is Lindsay Lohan on heroin?<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->Pictures of Lindsay Lohan posing with a syringe and torniquet have surfaced leading some to think that she was taking heroin.<br /><br />About the only thing we can actually be certain of is that she's not been taking heroin recently: it would have shown up on the drug test which found the cocaine which sent her back to jail over the weekend.<br />However, the pictures are more than <a href="http://www.examiner.com/uk-headlines-in-national/lindsay-lohan-on-heroin">suggestive</a>:<br /><p> <em>CROUCHING in a dark corner, Lindsay Lohan is poised to inject herself with what appears to be a syringe of heroin.</em></p> <p> <span style="font-style: italic;">Our shocking picture shows the troubled Mean Girls star wrapping a tourniquet around her lower arm - the method addicts use to raise a vein.</span></p> <p><span style="font-style: italic;"> Her right hand hovers the needle over the skin of her left arm. </span><br /></p><p>Perhaps she was taking heroin: she wouldn't be the first and won't be the last person whio has tried it and doesn't carry on taking it.</p><p>Maybe it was just a pose for the cameras, a laugh with the girls?<br /></p>Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-2428681320817178332010-08-24T14:15:00.002+01:002010-08-24T14:25:21.178+01:00Finding the right web host<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->We all know that...well, all of us still in business know that anyway......in order to keep a business going these days you've got to have a presence on the web.<br /><br />You don't have to be running your whole business on the web, this is true. You don't have to be selling over the web, or to be servicing your customers that way, but you do at least need to have a presence, a reference site.<br /><br />And of course you can actually service your customers, sell to them, over the web as well. What you want to do is really up to you: and is of course contrained by the real world. A business which sold bridges over the web wouldn't be all that successful while one that sold MP3 files certainly could be. But even so, a bridge building company will need a web presence just to let people know where they can go to get bridges.<br /><br />Once we've decided what we're going to do online then we need to decide who is going to host it. If all you need is a static site with a bit of email for your bridge building company then one host or type of host may be all you need. If you're going to be selling MP3s then a whole host of different matters come into play. Bandwidth, reliability, how quickly can you expand servers and memory, all these sorts of things. Which is where <a href="http://webhostingrating.com/vps-hosting/">vps hosting</a> might be worth looking at.<br /><br />It's a sorta half way stage between a shared server and a dedicated one. You get the interface, the access to the nuts and bolts of the machine, of a dedicated server but still running on a shared server. the detail of one system and the cheapness and flexibility of the other.<br /><br />Worth checking out.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-9166909043172243122010-08-24T14:07:00.002+01:002010-08-24T14:15:47.859+01:00The Danielle Staub sextape<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->So, things aren't working out all that well for Danielle Staub at present.<br /><br />She's been booted off the reality show, Real Housewives of New Jersey....partly because it's <a href="http://www.examiner.com/celebrity-headlines-in-national/danielle-staub-axed-from-real-housewives-season-3-sextape-drug-past-no-good-for-bravo-execs">now surfaced</a> that there's a Danielle Straub sextape out there.<br /><br />And this sextape comes only a couple of days after the revelation of a drug and prostitution soaked past.<br /><br />All of which is really rather sad I think. for if we're going to have a reality TV show then we probably should have one that includes, you know, reality. And yes, there really are a number of women of a certain age who in their youth did other things. So why should this reality not be shown on a reality TV show?<br /><br />I guess there's always the possibility that this is too much reality....Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-33090839163732682582010-08-11T17:25:00.002+01:002010-08-11T17:34:06.902+01:00Private tutoring has never been so cheap<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->One of the things that economist are puzzled about is that no one is really quite sure what people are going to use the internet for. Sure, we know it's a great big new technology, just like electricity, mass production or the train was. But just as when those were first invented, what people actually use it for is unknown.<br /><br />Why this matters is because we're not really sure which industries are going to be over turned by it. One bet, one that really hasn't quite been grasped as yet, is that it will be education that is transformed. If you can learn everything you need to over the net, with one to one instruction when needed, videos of lectures at other times, or with online textbooks, what's the point of having to go to a school each day?<br /><br />And there are services springing up which show how this can be done. For example, need tutoring on <a href="http://www.tutorvista.com/algebra-2-help">Algebra 2</a>? Can't quite grasp <a href="http://www.tutorvista.com/content/math/mathcontentgrade5.php">5th grade math</a>? Need some help in <a href="http://www.tutorvista.com/how-to-add-fractions">adding fractions</a>? Maybe it's the <a href="http://www.tutorvista.com/volume-formula">formula for volume</a> which is your problem?<br /><br />Now, OK, that's just maths....but this one company will give you all the tutoring any one child or pupil desires, 24/7, in any and every subject they cover, for just $99 a month. Add that sort of tutoring to a decent set of textbooks and why would anyone be spending $12,000 a year per child on the public schools? You can get a better education for one tenth of the cost!<br /><br />It really is possible that the major industry that will be overturned by the internet isn't newspapers, or movies, but education.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-83219594805182555372010-07-26T18:07:00.002+01:002010-07-26T18:15:03.335+01:00Fascinating stuff about the gold price<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->This is a fun little article talking about how the <a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/Gold-Prices-Gold-Price-Price-of-Gold-Gold-Spot-Current-Gold-Prices-Gold-Charts/">price of gold</a> is set. It's really rather archaic and dates all the way back to 1919. OK, they've moved a little bit with the times now and they use a telephone rather than actually all meeting in the same room but the old ways still do seem to persist.<br /><br />Perhaps we shouldn't say <a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/Gold-Prices-Gold-Price-Price-of-Gold-Gold-Spot-Current-Gold-Prices-Gold-Charts/">gold price</a>, but one of the <a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/Gold-Prices-Gold-Price-Price-of-Gold-Gold-Spot-Current-Gold-Prices-Gold-Charts/">gold prices</a> is fixed in this funny old manner. The five main dealer banks all meet up (telephonically now of course) and essentially barter about the price at which they're willing to buy or sell gold. Under the old system if they wanted to take a little break in the bartering (to talk to someone else, just to think for a moment) they would raise a little union jack flag they had on their desk.<br /><br />When they lower it then it all starts again. When the bartering was finished then all the flags would stay down. Now, of course, over the phone, no one can see the flags: so, instead, they say "flag" when they want that break. Funny how these things go really, old traditions hanging on.<br /><br />But do understand, this is how the <a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/Gold-Prices-Gold-Price-Price-of-Gold-Gold-Spot-Current-Gold-Prices-Gold-Charts/">gold spot</a> price is fixed: futures and options prices change all the time. And it's only the London <a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/Gold-Prices-Gold-Price-Price-of-Gold-Gold-Spot-Current-Gold-Prices-Gold-Charts/">spot gold</a> price that is fixed this way: everyone else just does it on the internet.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-37877001198939027682010-07-22T16:55:00.002+01:002010-07-22T17:05:54.020+01:00Finding those women's t-shirts<!--<a href="href" target="_blank">this</a><a href="http://arthursseat.blogs.com/" target="_blank">Mr Seat</a><a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/" target="_blank">Tim Worstall</a><blockquote></blockquote>-->Yes, yes, we've all heard what globalisation has done for the costs of clothing. You can nip down to the shopping centre and get a t-shirt for less than the cost of a beer and wear it straight home. However, the problem is with the quality: the t-shirt is unlikely to last as long as an open beer at a student party. And that's not the only problem. Given that everyone will have seen the same t-shirts for sale everyone will equally know that you're wearing some really very cheap and tatty t-shirt. Not really what you want to be flaunting.<br /><br />On the other hand we all also know that really good quality designer clothes cost a fortune. What we'd really like, if only we could find it, is some way of getting the good quality gear for a more reasonable price. Not the easiest of things to do that. But it would be good if we could, yes? For then we'd be able to show that we've the good sense and good taste to buy and wear that good quality designer gear without having had to pay the full price for it. We're smart and well clothed and yet even smarter than those who simply buy it from the stores, right?<br /><br />Which is why you might want to look at this site and their <a href="http://www.designerwear.co.uk/womenswear-c22/t-shirts-c26">women's t-shirts</a>. They've got the brands you want, French Connection, Henley's, Goi Goi, but at prices which could save you as much as 50% of the recommended retail. Look good, look smart and save money: what could possibly go wrong?<br /><br />Leaving, of course, more money for those other necessities of a life well lived: no, it doesn't have to be beer, there are plenty of other things which can add to such. For example, the savings on a Goi Goi t-shirt can be enough to purchase a Motel one: designer clothes at two for one prices!Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0