His Royal Dryness, The Duke of Cork

With the advent of sites like BetFair, it's possible to be the bookmaker as well as placing bets.  Clearly, if you can place a bet at high odds, then lay the bet off at low odds, you cannot fail to make a profit*. It is rare for the BetFair Exchange to be at a level which would allow you to do this, and you also have to take into account the commission BetFair charge.  Also, the margins are usually tiny, if you actually stumble across such a glitch. So what can you do?  Well, most bookmakers will offer free bets.  Not only for new customers, but as frequent enticements to return to their site.  The offer may be bet £10 on Saturday, get a free £10 bet on Sunday.  Now, the odds are genuinely in your favour. Usually the qualifying bet must be placed on an event at longer odds than evens.  But consider this :- If you placed a £10 bet at evens with the bookmaker, you may be able to lay a bet off on BetFair at 2.1 decimal odds.  Let's say you took a bet on BetFair of £9.76 (y

I have always found the Work Offline feature in Outlook extremely useful for a number of reasons. After recently upgrading to Office 2016, I could not find a way to start up in this offline mode, as it looks as if Microsoft has removed this functionality. After a bit of investigation, I found that the answer wasn't too painful, as long as you're familiar with macros. Just add the following into the Visual Basic code and you'll be fine.  Private Sub Application_Startup()   Dim objExplorer As Outlook.Explorer  Set objExplorer = ActiveExplorer   Dim oNS As NameSpace  Set oNS = Application.Session  If Not (oNS.ExchangeConnectionMode = olCachedOffline Or oNS.ExchangeConnectionMode = olOffline) Then   objExplorer.CommandBars.ExecuteMso ("ToggleOnline")   End If   End Sub