Oh, the egos that esist in the banking sector. Apparently, it was a single trader who tipped the price of crude oil to over $100 a barrel, if only for a few seconds. As BBC News reports: Last Updated: Thursday, 3 January 2008, 13:11 GMT Single trader behind oil record Open outcry trading is being [...]
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According to Holiday Gifts on Facebook, it’s National Impotency Month in the USA. Is it just me that I think it’s someone’s in-joke that it lasts for a month and not just a day?
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Ok, so you enter a competition. In this case, a baking competition. You come second. Horray! Except there was no other entry. How? Well, it’s what happened to the lovely Jenny Brown in cake baking contest in a fete. See the news article link below for more details. I’m off to make a cup of [...]
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It’s official, there are too many Wangs and Zhangs in China. And the government officials there are proposing changes to allow the registration of different names. The problem stems really from the fact that parents often choose particular names for their kids which sound good (each character in a name retains its meaning in Chinese). [...]
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Rules: Google Game: Go to Google and type in quotation marks your name and then "likes to" (eg. "Jez likes to"). Type in the first ten things that come up and repost in your own note. Lester likes to: joke say, "I’m not laughing at you, I’m laughing near you!" sing in a very loud [...]
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