Multiple Hundreds of Reports: Is Booking.com in trouble?
Is booking dot com having financial problems? I see from researching the payment delayed situation that it affects hundreds of hoteliers across multiple countries. Here are some stories from Japan, the UK, Hungary, Thailand, Denmark,… and there are still new cases coming in. So I started digging through their financials: CEO, CFO are both selling…
All the Nines: Losing weight or not?
So it’s been a battle to figure out why I’m not losing weight as fast as before. In fairness, I put on a couple in August/September. And I’m back to an average of about 88kgs. So today I looked at the period I lost 5kgs and compared it to what I’ve been doing recently. Result:…
Supermarket Watch: Taiwan
LOL! Well… in our area, we have two supermarkets but neither of them is good enough to get everything. Combined they don’t even make one decent supermarket. There are times when I go in to buy stuff and leave with nothing because they didn’t stock any more, or they’ve done a promo and it’s sold…
Milk, butter and cheese are all expensive in Taiwan. Why?
So it farmers get NT$27.7 for a liter of milk. $3billion / 108000000 liters of milk. ChatGPT says it’s about NT$32 for farmer’s rates in Ablerta. I guess global input costs are similar and there don’t seem to be any subsidies for milk production here. So… local milk is quite expensive. I’m impressed how much…
Summer 2023
I didn’t take much this summer in Scotland… but here are some shots that did catch my eye! Weird… I lugged that heavy camera everywhere but I just didn’t feel the urge to shoot with it!
Ou est du vrai fromage? Je sais pas!
I did buy some cream cheese and some camembert. But really CF has way too much square cheese-like product! And way too many that don’t even say they are cheese! They don’t even say the word “cheese” on the product label. Pourquoi? I would love to buy some real cheese, but the local market thinks…
Does it help OUR students?
Vendors forget one typical question when they approach our business for sales. Now we’re getting pitches for online materials (like who wants to be stuck in front of a PC?). So the real question as always: ‘Does it help OUR students?’… The great online experiment of education during Covid was generally reckoned to be a…
