Site searches

A quick tip for when you’re looking for information from a particular website, and you know it’s there somewhere but you just can’t find it: Go to Google and type site:[thewebsiteyouwanttosearch.co.uk] and add the search term here What you’ll...

Domain flipping

Here’s another business that people earn from: they buy a domain name (eg yourname.co.uk) then sell it later for a profit. Most domains in my experience are relatively cheap to buy and, as I learned a few years ago, they’re like land: once they’re...

‘The greatest speech since Gettysburg Address’

Earlier this year, I learned about Jimmy Reid, the Glasgow trade union activist, and the speech he delivered on his inauguration as rector of Glasgow University in 1972. When this speech was reprinted in the New York Times, it was described as “the greatest speech...

Reading material

Which books would I recommend young people, parents and teachers read to understand more about the commercial internet and working life today (compared with the world that schools generally prepare kids for)? That’s a big question, obviously, and I have my...