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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Hulk

Monday, October 27, 2008

I watched The Incredible Hulk at the weekend (the one with Edward Norton).
For some reason I thought that most people believed that the previous film was rubbish and this was much better, even good, but I didn’t think so.
Or maybe I imagined that.
Anyway, how Norton got an Oscar nomination for it is beyond me. Hurt [...]

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Christmas

Friday, October 24, 2008

A number of people I see and people in the media are groaning about it still being October yet the Christmas decorations are up in some places, Christmas ads in magazines and shops etc, and it’s true, it’s all a bit much.
But the other day, whilst in Sainsbury’s, I saw Hot Cross Buns! 
That’s like half [...]

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Gran Turismo

Saturday, October 18, 2008

I’ve given up waiting for the full version of GT5 to come out on the PS3, so will just go back and play GT4 on the PS2 all over again.
It’s still a great game.

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Scottish Banks

Sunday, October 12, 2008

I wonder what the Scottish Nationalists think about the UK government taking controlling stakes in RBS and HBOS.

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Wordpress User Spam

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

In recent weeks, I’ve been getting a lot of user registrations on this blog. The users have typical spam characteristics like random-looking email addresses and names with “cheap” and “buy” and the name of some pharmaceutical brand in there.
But they never post anything. Not even try. So what’s the point?

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New Job

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Well, actually it’s my old job, although not completely.
So Lehman Brothers Holding filed for Chapter 11 a couple of weeks ago, the US bit got bought whole by Barclays Capital, and Nomura International are in the process of buying the Equities plus other bits of Lehman UK, the whole (I think) of Lehman Japan and also Lehman [...]

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