Affairs and Business – Bricks and Bluebottles

Not Good at Being Bad

The control of information and opinion is always essential in wars and The Economist reports on how Russia is using Twitter to do just that.

As the article mentions, just as Ukraine’s resistance should not be underestimated, neither should the information resistance.

Frac sand, which gets blasted through shale rocks to unlock oil and natural gas, is averaging $55 a ton, up from $22 at the end of 2021.

Someone is doing well if they can manage to sell sand to a person living in a desert.

Bunnings has announced that it is increasing the price of its sausage sizzle. The first increase in 15 years.

I guess the world can’t have nice things – other than Keanu Reeves.

The recent announcement that Apple’s word processing application, Pages, was getting mail merge functionality was a welcome return.

It’s been nearly a decade since the merge function disappeared from Pages and is a much needed addition to the application.

Something worth announcing to a lot of people.