MrKotic

Apologies Count, no you didn't, I imposed my own flippant interpretation on "have done it deliberately or otherwise".

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Close, but no cigar. FTSE 100 5092.23 16:35:30 -239.37 -4.49 There's always tomorrow.

Perpetually. Still there's nothing like an emoting mother on Oprah to test a man's mettle. Let's hope she finds herself, and gets lost again. This threads meandering a bit eh?

Yeah but you'll have to evict one of the little piggies first (sitting tenant)

Have you got the hump?

Me too, millets have got a wicked tent sale on.

I'd like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realised that humans are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern... a virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer on this planet, you are a plague, and we... are the cure. - Agent Smith, The Matrix Actually, in common with anything that exhausts its host, we are our own cure in effect.

LONDON (ShareCast) - US dole claimants rose to a 25-year high last week despite a slight fall in the number of new claimants last week. The US Department of Labor initial filings for state jobless benefits fell by 4,000 to 481,000 in the week ending 1 November, bringing the total number of claimants up to 3.843m. Economists had forecast 476,000 claims. The figures for people continuing to claim benefits number increased by 122,000 for the week ended 18 October, the most current data available. A year ago, the number stood at 2.59m. More bad news for the economy came from productuivty figures with third quarter efficiency slowing. Compared with the third quarter of 2007, productivity rose 2%, down from 3.2% in the 12 months to June. Employee output per hour rose more than forecast at a 1.1% percent annual rate, but labor costs climbed faster at 3.6%, pointing to more cost-cutting on the way.

What y'all on about, the DJI just went UP!

Ironic considering their shares got hammered today: DSGi 26.25 -7.00 -21.05%

Did a CHAPS transfer of all bar £20 from KE at about 10:30 this morning, funds just turned up in my linked account at 17:00. Now have too much with HSBC, but at least their share price went up today!

From the site: "There are a number of moves promoting the requirement of 'ID' cards to allow photographers to operate in a public place. It is a fundamental right of a UK citizen to use a camera in a public place, indeed there is no right to privacy when in a public place. These moves have developed from paranoia and only promote suspicion towards genuine people following their hobby or profession" Ahhh so you will effectively have to be licensed to take photography in public places, wonder how much that will cost? "V for Vendetta" anyone?

Doesn't CPI usually drop in January due to the *sales*, which were particuarly aggressive this year because retailers were panicking a little at poor pre-christmas sales? CPI monthly change seems to suggest that trend across all items. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/tsdt...1.asp?vlnk=mm23 Just the usual reactive reporting then?

Good evening, I've been working in IT for 7 years at the thick end in Applications Support, I started late and missed the Y2K boom, but have done well since then. I'm a jack of all trades, but master of none; I believe in a pragmatic approach to IT and that has exposed me to a wide range of technologies and ideas. I'm not too worried about the current offshoring trend and believe there will always be a need for good technicians, PM's etc. In my experience they are few and far between and most projects are built on the efforts of a these few. That holds true for pretty much all businesses. I have with some experience with offshoring, being recently TUPE'd to an Indian company. It's ... disheartening. But I found this article to be both enlightening and of some solice http://www.journalhome.com/codecraft/13920/ I do believe that there will be an increase in offshoring as Corporate's attempt to save money: "Capital always chases cheap Labour". Especially in a recession. Undoubtedly this will result in a cull of IT employees, but that was always going to happen once IT was commoditised. IT was a bubble too and all bubbles burst one day The trick seems to be avoiding being commoditised? Now that's hard work!