Is This Really India’s 9/11?

I was just listening to the podcast of CNN’s AC360. I like listening or watching American news. Obviously the coverage of US politics can be more in depth than elsewhere but often I like the over the top reporting of incidents, making them out to be much more important than they are to justify hours [...]

Justice For Materazzi

At the time I had some discussion with an Algerian friend of mine who said that Zidane should have killed Materazzi for that comment as this is the worst kind of insult you could direct at an Algerian. … So it turns out that Materazzi did not say anything of the sort, instead saying that he preferred Zidane’s sister to the French captain’s offer of his shirt, which Materazzi was pulling at a corner.

How Much Time Have You Wasted Changing Your Gmail Theme?

Google rolled out Themes for Gmail overnight (European time) and I have so far gone with about 8 of the designs before settling back on the original.
How much time have you wasted on this feature? Some of the themes are pretty nice, even the Terminal theme, but none of them were as good as the [...]

Why Subprime Borrowers Are Like Rioting Colombians

There is a story on the BBC website that tells of a group of Colombians rioting when they tried to hunt down a group of pyramid marketers who basically took their money and then did a runner.
These guys were promising rates of return of up to 150% in the short term, numbers that surely have [...]

A Sense Of Treading Water

There is a strange sense at the moment, a lot of the major outcomes from the financial crisis have yet to really be put in motion and we are still getting stock markets movements up 5% one day, down 5% the next.
The latest crisis sees Nancy Pelosordi calling for a financial bailout of US car [...]

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