Living on a Narrowboat
The financial markets witness the largest series of events this century and the Wall Street Stock exchange rallies.
This is truly a miracle…
AEX Amsterdam Index -13.84 -3.59%
DAX Index -98.99 -1.63%
CAC 40 Index -81.57 -1.96%
Nikkei -605.04 -4.95%
Hang Seng -1,052.29 -5.44%
Shanghai Composite -93.04 -4.47%
Dow Jones Industrial Average +141.51 +1.30%
Here’s a selection of the best photo’s I’ve found on Flickr.
You can find more favourites in my favourites folder http://www.flickr.com/photos/lonelyplanetexchange/favorites/
Seems that one of the richest companies in Silicon Valley is having trouble finding lawyers to correctly T & C it’s latest browser release, Chrome.
Deep in the User Agreement, which all you downloaders have signed up to ,is something which we suspect Google has been doing all along. This just proves us right.
So here it is in black and white and from the Google-Horse’s mouth.
By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.
Thanks to the US firm of lawyers acting on Google’s behave for the head’s up on that one.
Google currently refuses to display a valid privacy policy from it’s front page in breach of US federal law.
In additional clicks the company, one of my favourite world-wide hoteliers, tells us.
A conversational blog by it’s founder and CEO Bill Marriott ranks amongst a list of 15 blogs (by sitepoint) where the corporate’s have got it right.
Here’s a picture from my favourite Marriott, Marriott Jordan Valley. Cheap, and great breakfast, I’d recommend it to those visiting the ruins who can’t get bookings at the Movenpick (founded by relatives of the Swiss Explorer who discovered the ruins and in the ideal situation).
Hammer time? An amusing anecdote about things you can do with house-hold tools.
AUGUST 6–While on patrol Monday evening, an Indiana cop noticed a naked guy standing in the window of a Fort Wayne home. So she approached the man’s front door, which was wide open, to investigate further. It was then that Officer S. Hughes and a colleague were treated to the sight of a prone Ronald Miller, 56, engaging in a remarkably lewd act on his living room sofa. For the dirty details, you’ll have to read the below Fort Wayne Police Department report, which notes that Miller is apparently handy with a claw hammer and some motor oil. Miller, pictured in the mug shot at right, was arrested on a felony indecency charge. A neighbor told cops that Miller was “not right” and parades around naked “24/24.”
