http://shaggyentrepreneur.com Scribblings of a confused entrepreneur Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:14:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week, Janet Street Porter became the latest journalist to jump on the twitter-bashing bandwagon. In her column for the Independent, she describes twitter as something to allow "middle aged, middle class, work weary wannaby trendies" to "exchange mindlessness", an area in which she is well versed, judging by the ... http://shaggyentrepreneur.com/2009/08/19/twitter-janet-street-porter-and-the-myth-of-usage-statistics/ Ok, get ready for some shameless self-promotion. Furnish.co.uk has finally opened to the public! Well, actually, it happened a couple of weeks ago, but I've been too busy being its CEO to blog about it. So... what's this "furnish" all about? If you didn't know, furnish.co.uk lets you can shop across the ... http://shaggyentrepreneur.com/2009/07/16/furnish-co-uk-launches-the-finest-home-furniture-designers-and-retailers-in-one-place/ Adapted from a post by David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D, Professor of Economics, University of Georgia: Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to £100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The ... http://shaggyentrepreneur.com/2009/05/07/the-uk-tax-system-explained-using-beer/