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Global domination from a Pizza company! Don't forget the taxi services, it will work for them as well.

Back in my happy days in Al-Khobar the only reliable way of being sure you had found the right address was the Domino's Pizza sticker (complete with unique number) at the entrance.

In a more remote part of the Kingdom, another deliver guy told me that they used the water meter number! There's always a way.

Meanwhile, when I came back to Blighty some years ago, and the "dot.com" boom had happened during my lengthy absence, I realised straight away that reliable (secure) delivery of stuff bought on line was were the money was to be made. Pity that I never found anyone else willing to have a go.

But, there again, I guess that market is already pretty well sewn up by the various courier companies whose massive vans can be seen Sprinting by everywhere you go. Not to mention the home delivery vans of the all the leading supermarket chains. Now there's a business model that would do well in Jeddah and Riyadh!

Things are a bit more organised in the UK, of course, with the house number, Post Code, and a Sat-Nav being all you really need.

But (back to deliveries) I'm told that in other parts of the world (eg, the US) folk have secure containers (the size of industrial garbage bins) where deliveries can be left when no-one is at home. There's another business opportunity, then. Just as long as the thing didn't end up getting confused withe the Biffa* bin (or vice versa).

The Bottom Line here is:- if you want to make money, stick to everyday things that the population in general need. The basics, like food for example. Or even car mechanics. In the UK, property maintenance and its associates ("garden services") always seems in demand. Forget all about esoteric stuff like biomedical engineering.

In fact, it may not be wise for a young person in UK to consider engineering at all. Certainly not manufacturing, anyway. Britain's so-called "economy" (now, there's a laugh) has been "service based" for many years. I know blokes around here who make their money exercising (other people's) dogs! Twenty-odd years ago I had the chance to buy a grass-cutting round for £ 4,000. I wish now that I had gone for it!

* Other private waste disposal companies may be available!

I may need to put in some more time on this one ... if only in celebration of the fact that my old 100 MHz "Pentium-1" PC is fifteen years old today.

I bought that one from the Shula Center in Al-Khobar (I'm sure that others will remember that emporium - unfortunately it burned down a few years later) for the equivalent of £ 650. It's seen a lot of use (and travelled about a fair bit) since then.

Never let it be said that I forget old (loyal) friends.

With reference to the original post ... and just in case anyone was wondering ...

I'm still plodding through this one from time to time. It's a great therapy, and one that I can recommend to all:- carrying out maintenance (and hopefully improving) upon code that was first written seventeen years ago.

As with all such things, it's OK once (if) you get in the groove. And if you can't, then you may as well power down and do something else. Such as sleep, for example.