Iberia Airlines – We don’t Really DO Baggage

Just received a message from a very good friend of mine who is visiting her parents in Italy. She flew there successfully with Iberia Airlines… unfortunately her baggage preferred to go to Madrid… From Alessandra: Very jet lagged! Just making sure I got it… And testing yr patience! And, be nice, cause I am still in distress for Iberia losing my luggage. I am wearing my mum’s clothes From me: Hi Alessandra, Hmmm… A couple of points come to mind here. Re: Iberia. I flew with them in about 1979 from Barcelona (or should I say Barthelona) to Athens. After checking in, all the passengers were then herded onto transit [...] . . . → Read More: Iberia Airlines – We don’t Really DO Baggage

This Weeks Blog OR How to be an Unsuccessful Writer

“Let’s start a blog,” I said to my mate Lance. “œEveryone’s doing it; we can be rich and famous without breaking a sweat. I can write, you can do the tricky posting stuff. What could be easier?” I’ve always wanted to be a writer ever since I learned how to read. Writing stuff is great. It’s cool. You write stuff and then people read it and you become like Charles Dickens or Agatha Christie and when you die your words live on. Who wouldn’t want that? I wanted it. So I wrote. I didn’t write a lot but what . . . → Read More: This Weeks Blog OR How to be an Unsuccessful Writer

Too Big to Fail – Too Dumb to Succeed

It’s incredible that huge corporations like Enron, AIG, etc etc etc etc could fail so spectacularly that they need bailing out, right? On the other hand it’s very OBVIOUS why they failed – they were grossly mismanaged, must have been operating on completely erroneous economic principles, and had been encouraged to ignore all the common sense rules of operation the owner of my local noodle bar (who has not been to Harvard) practices as a matter of survival necessity. Therefore you’d be really interested in what the guy who won a Nobel Prize for Economics has to say: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a2aNOdTIAtLc . . . → Read More: Too Big to Fail – Too Dumb to Succeed