Wednesday, January 09, 2002  

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Blogger's servers are currently under too much load ... let me cry , pls dont stop me , have to wait for 1 whole day to publish !

I maybe a star wars fan , but i have a day job which is totally different from what these guys have - http://www.seattlestarwars.com/ waiting for the movie to be released in a theater in May 2002, while the theater management do not even know if the movie is going to be screened in that theater . Now what if it gets released in the theater next to it and they are not the first ones to get the ticket - DOH !

Story of the year :http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/net_fraud_020107.html
"This case … demonstrates that just about anyone — even a 17-year-old high school student — can mastermind a securities fraud over the Internet," said Stephen M. Cutler, director of the SEC's Enforcement Division.

Invest Better 2001 apparently offered - YES 2500% return on investments over christmas.
Want to know what the people who invested in the scheme think ? they are discussing over here
http://communities.msn.co.nz/investbetter2001support/general.msnw : Weird that people do fall prey and trust such claims - 2500% return , phew.

NB pls read this : http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/cyberfraud/questions.htm
Bottom line INVESTigate before you INVEST -http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/cyberfraud/investigate.htm
Noted before i logged off : http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:x8VPqptd3coC:communities.msn.ca/InvestBetter2001/settings+forbes+invest+better+2001&hl=en Now the website was claiming to be quoted in Forbes magazine Feb2002 :)

Let me tell you something , if you have way too much time on your hands ( give or take 10 mins ) read this , and oh , did i say - dont miss the voice mail mp3's ?
go on indulge yourself , take a peek at what's happening here:
http://petemoss.com/spamflames/ShifmanIsAMoronSpammer.html :
http://www.geminione.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=911 - Moral of the story = how not to search for a job ?

Now after Euro was introduced over new year's day , my logic is being defied. I was trying to book a flight to Italy on Expedia and was looking up the exchange rate of lire to Euro's to Pounds to Punts and what do i see ?
600.00 European euros = 600.00 European euros . Fine then that means the exchange rate =1 right ? Wrong Exchange rate: 0.999999
http://www.expedia.co.uk/pub/agent.dll .I guess i will have to get used to rounding off now .
No wonder why an italian pensioner tried to get a cappuccino by paying 600 odd euros , in effect trying to exchange Euro's to Lire, needless to say she was unsuccessful and the cafe cashier refused . I think her monthly pension in lire would have been around 1,200,761 how does that number compare against a meagerly 600 odd euro's ?
When it comes to coins , i like the italian euro coins , they are by far the superior in design ,mainly because they have Vitruvian Man on 1 Euro and 2 Euro has Raphael's portrait of Dante Alighieri.
Boring is probably , best said when it comes to design of the belgian euro coins.


Brief encounters on the main street : http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/portfolios/humantraffic/index.html I didn't even remember that i was out shopping on oxford street until i saw this site ...I am very much interested in street photography (now) and i have to admit , this is much better than the freak watcher's website