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I’m sitting in a bar in Cologne, nursing a flat beer and wishing I’d been able to sleep. I’ve been up since eight in the morning, installing new mini-bars in a posh hotel in the town centre. It’s boring work, and I hate it. I’d originally got into the hotel mini-bar business as a way to legitimise my assets, and against expectations it was still making me a good living, years later. As the guests got more imaginative in their ability to bypass the security on the mini-bars, our job was to mak...