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Apr 14, 2009

Webby Awards: Financial Nominees 2009

The 13th Annual Webby Awards nominees have just been announced, with Awards presented in June. The Webbies recognise the best internet sites globally, and there are 70 categories to choose from … far too many to checkout, so checkout the ones that interest us: Banking and Bill Paying Billeo by Billeo; Rudder by Rudder Inc;…

Apr 11, 2009

The Masters, John Daly and the Credit Crunch

In a sign of the times, former major winner John Daly is selling signed golf balls and T-Shirts from his motor home outside the Augusta gates this week. It's in order to make ends meet whilst he serves a ban from the sport whilst having to pay out to support his many ex-wives (he's been…

Apr 11, 2009

The Masters, John Daly and the Credit Crunch

Apr 11, 2009

The Masters, John Daly and the Credit Crunch

Apr 9, 2009

Banking in an anti-terrorism world

Found a wonderful site today thanks to the Ridiculant. This site is one where a nice chap has taken a picture of this anti-terrorism poster (double-click picture to see larger text): and allowed you to remix it into any poster wording you like. I chose this one: which naturally led to this one: but by…

Apr 9, 2009

Banking in an anti-terrorism world

Apr 9, 2009

Banking in an anti-terrorism world

Apr 5, 2009

Vive le revolution!

So the G20 protests were a bit of a damp squib, thanks to tight police controls, but not so in France where the NATO Summit in Strasbourg saw a lot of trouble. But I was more interested in two other stories. The first is from the Times and relates to the growing trend in France…

Apr 5, 2009

Great predictions of the past

It's easy to catch people's prediction out in hindsight, with the most common ones being things like "I see a worldwide market for about five computers" from Thomas Watson, IBM's CEO in the 1950s, and "640k is enough memory for anyone" from Bill Gates. Now there's a website dedicated to collecting these predictions called "Wrong…

Apr 5, 2009