Q&A November 2, 2011 Q.WHAT IS THE CLOUD? A.Instead of accessing files from your hard drive, you are accessing files remotely. Cloud email is simply the way you’ve always accessed your webmail or Hotmail or Gmail. Cloud computing is taking that idea and extending it to everything you traditionally keep on your hard drive such as documents and pictures. [...]
OUT OF OFFICE November 2, 2011 SKYLON COCKTAIL CLASSES Jazz up your Monday and join in Skylon’s cocktail classes. Learn how to make the perfect Manhattan cocktail with mixologist Zoran Peric and evoke old school New York glamour against the London skyline. These drop-in classes are informal, so brush up your classic cocktail skills before taking dinner in the restaurant, or [...]
Houellebecq’s bizarre new novel is (almost) brilliant November 2, 2011 THE MAP AND THE TERRITORY BY MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Heinemann , £17.99 THE arcane title of this book should serve as a fair warning to the reader familiar with Atomised, Platform and other cult Houellebecq novels. While those books are driven by sexual desperation and erotic tragedy (alongside the usual heaping helpings of profound dystopia), The [...]
GOING OUT November 2, 2011 The Hawksmoor empire has opened their third and beefiest establishment in Guildhall and its separate 50-seater bar helps reinforce the group’s penchant for cocktails as well as steak. Pall Mall just got a bit posher with the addition of The Balcon and its new St James’s Bar. Drawing inspiration from Coco Chanel’s 1920s Paris apartment [...]
Two cookbooks to add flavour to your winter kitchen November 2, 2011 My Kind of Cooking Mark Sargeant Published by Quercus £20 Odd bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal Jennifer McLagan Published by Jacqui Small £20 Mark Sargeant was a Gordon Ramsay protégé and Head Chef at Claridges formerly unnoticed in the shadow of his boss. Now, he’s done it on his own – [...]
Kuwaitis to buy up Hammerson asset November 1, 2011 KUWAITI property firm St Martins Corporation is close to buying 60 Threadneedle Street at the heart of the City from Hammerson in a deal said to be worth more than £175m. The offices, which were completed in 2009, are 99 per cent let, producing £8.8m of rent a year from tenants including Talbot Underwriting and [...]
DTZ says City offices resilient November 1, 2011 OFFICES in London’s Square Mile offer one of the best defensive plays for property investors seeking to safeguard total returns if the pan-European sector is dragged into a second recession by the Eurozone debt crisis, research by DTZ claims. The property consultancy carried out research based on a worst-case scenario, with the 20 per cent [...]
Life beyond the web for a new age of daters November 1, 2011 IT’s been a long day and you’re tired. But when you get home you have another job to do: search through thousands of faces for your potential life partner and reply to a half-dozen or so relevant messages from fellow cyber love-seekers. Internet dating is no longer considered weird or sad – roughly 5.2m Brits [...]
BEYOND THE INTERNET | MATCHMAKING THROUGH PEOPLE, NOT ALGORITHMS November 1, 2011 • Shared Tables Society, sharedtables.com Arranges dinners where four single men and four single women meet. Members are invited by existing members: each time you sign up to a dinner or “table” you have to recommend four other singles. Attracts a high-calibre, international crowd of late-20s, early 30s professionals. Website is truly “cool”. Upsides: Almost [...]
The Q3: Audi’s likeable compact SUV November 1, 2011 INTERNALLY, Audi calls it “the product firework”. With 12 new models introduced in the last five years and seven more planned for introduction by 2015, it seems the Four Rings can do no wrong. The Ingolstadt manufacturer seems to have an almost alchemic ability to find success in whatever niche it enters. But it is [...]