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The meaning of life ... doughnutsThe meaning of life ... doughnutsLife is a funny old thing sometimes. This blog is a collection of my comments on life and daily events or news stories, and various fun things I've found on the internets ... enjoy Articles
HOUSES WORTH LESS THAN THE BRICKS THEY ARE MADE OF
2008-04-11 22:07:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } brickx, originally uploaded by NELVEY.com. BRITAIN'S houses are now worth less as homes than they are as individual bricks, it was claimed last night.Estate agents say most homeowners are dispensing with their services and instead dismantling their houses and selling them bit-by-bit at car boot sales or down the pub.Others are breaking up individual rooms and selling them off piecemeal in a bid to stave off repossession while retaining a habitable portion of the family home.Wayne Hayes, 36, pulled apart his detatched, four bedroom house and put all the bits on e-Bay after the best offer he received was a can of dog food and a dirty stick.He added: "I got nearly 500 quid for the bricks. Once you add in the copper wire, the light fittings and the Belfast sink I've only lost about three-quarters of a million."B... More About: Houses , Made , Worth , Bricks
West Ham - I'm forever blowing bubbles
2008-04-11 12:19:00 Something for Hammers fans .... I'm forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in ... More About: Video , West , West Ham , Forever , Bubbles
Surf's up dude.
2008-04-04 20:08:00 Crazy guys throw a stick of dynamite into a canal to generate waves.....FOR SURFING!!! hell yeah!!!!!! More About: Dude
Scooby Doo 1969 Theme Song
2008-03-30 13:43:00 It's amazing what you can find on youtube. More About: Song , Theme , Scooby Doo
That Was The Quarter From Hell
2008-03-25 13:26:00 i_will_use_google, originally uploaded by NELVEY.com. Let's take a quick look at what made the news in the first-quarter. And let's hope things get better from here! JANUARYBear Stearns appointed Alan Schwartz as its new CEO.UBS came out and said that 2008 would be a 'difficult' year.Citi reported a fourth quarter loss of $9.83bn (the biggest in its 196-year history), after subprime lending-related write downs totalling some $17.4bn in the period.Merrill Lynch posted a huge fourth-quarter loss of $9.8bn, after writing down a further $11.5bn in subprime lending-related assets. Societe Generale revealed that a rogue trader, later to be identified as Jerome Kerviel, has cost it $7.1bn in equity derivative trading losses.Bank of America reported that its fourth-quarter profits fell 95% to $268m, after larger than expected CDO-related write-downs of some $5.28bn. Goldman Sachs is said to be axing 1,500 workers in its annual 'performance-related' cull.FEBRUARYUBS posted the bigg... More About: Hell , Quarter
Rogue Trader Charter
2008-03-20 13:35:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Rogue _070626092150352_wideweb__300x375, originally uploaded by NELVEY.com. A welcome Basel IV regulatory change will require a brand new capital tier, 'Rogue Capital', for any bank deemed to exceed the Maximum Rogue Trader benchmark. A White Paper on the precise metric is currently under consideration, but early indications are that the capital percentage will be a factor of 'front office white noise to compliance tut-tutting, multiplied by managerial temper volatilities'.A 'People's Rogue Trader Charter' has been jointly proposed by US and UK regulators. Both novice and experienced Rogue Traders alike, in the employ of institutions regulated within their respective jurisdictions, will be covered by the Charter. Until 12/31/08, mandatory compliance with the Charter will be voluntary, but thereafter volu...
You've Gotta Sing This - Probably The Best Market Ditty Ever
2008-03-19 13:08:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Stock, originally uploaded by NELVEY.com. Please sing to the tune of Queen's Bohemian RhapsodyIs this the real price ? Is this just fantasy ? Financial landslideNo escape from reality Open your eyesAnd look at your buys and see. I'm now a poor boyHigh yielding casualty Because I bought it high, watched it blowRating high, value low Any way the Fed goes,Doesn't really matter to me, to me. Mama - just killed my fundQuoted CDOs insteadPulled the trigger, now it's dead Mama - I had just begunThese CDOs have blown it all awayMama - ooohI still wanna buyI sometimes wish I'd never left Goldman at all. I see a little silhouette of a FedBernanke! Benanke ! Can you save the whole market ? Monolines and munis - very very frightening ! Super senior, super seniorSuper senior CDO - magnifico I'm long on subprime, nob... More About: Market , Sing , Gotta
Fun Business Quotes
2008-03-08 12:52:00 "The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill." Peter Ustinov. "More and more these days I find myself pondering how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits."John Nelson. "Gentlemen prefer bonds."Andrew Mellon. "I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside."Ken Dodd. "We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure."Keith Davis. "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."JP Getty. ... More About: Business , Quotes
Lois Kills Stewie - Family Guy
2008-03-02 21:51:00 Source: Hulu More About: Video , Family , Family Guy , Stewie
The A-Team - Episode 1
2008-03-01 13:15:00 Part 1Part 2Enjoy. More About: Video , Episode , Team , Episode 1
Evolution of Dance
2008-02-29 12:54:00 Another spot of fun, hey it's Friday More About: Video , Music , Evolution , Dance
OSX and Windows the musical.
2008-02-26 12:39:00 Some people have too much time on their hands.Windows (from XP and 98 only)Mac More About: Video , Music , Musical
Wise words from Ferris Bueller.
2008-02-22 00:13:00 Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.Source: IMDB More About: Words , Wise
Simpsons
2008-02-18 20:52:00 That '90s showE Pluribus WiggumSource: Hulu More About: Video , Simpsons
What's your deepest fear?
2008-02-17 20:27:00 Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.Source: Coach Carter More About: Fear
7UP Burping Bunnies
2008-02-16 20:26:00 I don't know what it is but I find this hilarious. More About: Video , Burping
Important petition for the US Govt.
2008-02-15 18:19:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Irish, originally uploaded by NELVEY.com. http://www.proposition317.com/ More About: Petition , Govt
More SuperBowl fun
2008-02-12 00:19:00 More can be found at : hulu.com More About: Video , Superbowl
The Meaning of Life ... Doughnuts podcast goes live on iTunes
2008-02-09 17:37:00 It's here the video podcast has final gone live and can be found in iTunes. Click here for the link. If you don't use iTunes then you can just use the shows direct link by clicking here or here or here .... enjoy More About: Life , Itunes , Podcast , Live , Meaning
Microsoft Offers to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion
2008-02-01 21:43:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } yahoo-microsoft, originally uploaded by NELVEY.com. Story from Bloomberg:Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, made an unsolicited $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo ! Inc. to challenge Google Inc.'s dominance in Internet search services and advertising.The $31-a-share bid of cash or Microsoft stock is 62 percent more than Yahoo's closing price yesterday. Yahoo, which posted a 23 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit this week, had fallen 18 percent in Nasdaq Stock Market trading this year before today. Microsoft fell the most since 2006 as investors expressed disapproval of the deal.Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is attempting the biggest-ever technology takeover after failing to compete with Google in a market that may almost double to $80 billion by 2010. M... More About: Offers , Yahoo! , Billion
Au revoir Mister Franglais
2008-02-01 18:58:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } _44397175_cafe_416, originally uploaded by NELVEY.com. The British are notoriously bad at learning foreign tongues. But with Franglais, the late Miles Kington showed anyone could get by on holiday with just a petit peu of effort. If there is one foreign language that English speakers always seem to crack, it's Franglais. Its rules are simple. Insert as many French words as you know into the sentence, fill in the rest with English, then speak it with absolute conviction. Although it wasn't known as such then, Franglais is found in Shakespeare and has probably been used for as long as the English and French have had to talk to each other.It is simple to learn - Bill Wyman's line, "Je suis un rock star", being a good start. But Miles Kington, who died on Wednesday, did it best. After all, he coined the name fo...
Dilbert Widget
2008-01-30 00:53:00 Check this out .... great for all Dilbert fans More About: Widget
Happy 50th Birthday Lego Brick
2008-01-28 18:26:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lego , originally uploaded by NELVEY.com. More About: Happy , Birthday , Brick
iBook vs. Masonry Drill
2008-01-28 14:08:00 What is it about apple. Why is it when they release a new product do nutters on the Internet feel they have to destroy the old one? More About: Video , Drill
Watching Paint Dry
2008-01-27 15:23:00 If you have time to kill then why not watch some paint dry....or for extra boredom why not watch a guy watching paint dry....I wonder what is worse, 'you' watching the paint drying videos, or 'me' having found them and put on this blog as I figured they would be interesting??? More About: Video , Watching , Paint
SG Denies Rogue Trader Under Stress From Working 30 Hour Week
More articles from this author:2008-01-26 13:37:00 'FRIENDS of rogue trader Jerome Kerviel last night blamed his $7 billion losses on unbearable levels of stress brought on by a punishing 30 hour week.Kerviel was known to start work as early as nine in the morning and still be at his desk at five or even five-thirty, often with just an hour and a half for lunch.One colleague said: 'He was, how you say, une workaholique. I have a family and a mistress so I would leave the office at around 2pm at the latest, if I wasn't on strike. But Jerome was tied to that desk. One day I came back to the office at 3pm because I had forgotten my stupid little hat, and there he was, fast asleep on the photocopier. At first I assumed he had been having sex with it, but then I remembered he'd been working for almost six hours'.As the losses mounted, Kerviel tried to conceal his bad trades by covering them with an intense red wine sauce, later switching to delicate pastry horns. At one point he managed to dispose of dozens of transactions by hiding... More About: Week , Stress , Working , Hour , Rogue 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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