In addition to lengthy online surveys, bayesian algorithms, mutual compatibility profiles, there is now genetic matching to help boy meet girl. Gene Partner claims that true love (or at least a piece of the online dating market) can be found in DNA sequences.

I’m planning a trip to Cambodia and India next month, and I expected that being able to use the internet to, for example, choose a hotel in Delhi would be simpler that the old way in which you either booked a famous high-end place or just showed up and took your chances.

It’s not.

I don’t really need or want to look at the 200 hotels that are available and read dozens of reviews (many of them obviously planted) for each place.

In his recent book, Jason Zweig explained that after a certain point investors with access to more information tend to underperform investors with less info to work with. I am beginning to understand why.

The Japanese have the right idea about Valentines day. Much better to have the girls buy chocolates for the guys.