We've lost some money, boss
Ooooppps! JP Morgan Chase have
unexpectedly lost $2bn. With another $1bn to follow. Ah well.
Troubled global economic times and all that. The 'unexpected' is a
bit worrying though. Like, two billion gone, out of the blue. Like
that fiver dropped on the kebab shop floor after a few beers. It's
also two billion gone in six weeks. That's $166,666,667 a week. That
seems a lot. Didn't anyone notice the dollar fuel-gauge thingy
dropping alarmingly? Didn't anyone notice the hole in the bank's
pocket? The further $1bn loss is at least un-unexpected. Apparently
the losses were made in the chief investment office, a department
charged with managing risk. Lucky it wasn't one of those
risk-friendly departments, I suppose. Imagine how much they could've
lost.
25 lashes for what, exactly
An Iranian cartoonist has been sent
down for 25 lashes for a caricature of a politician that has been
deemed insulting. To an MP. I have some questions:
- If their MPs are anything like ours, how far must you have to go to be insulting?
- What real harm does an insulting drawing do, actually?
- What century are we living in?
Computers, can't live without 'em...
I had to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 last
night, and lost a lot of stored emails and stuff in the process. The
system hung, because it didn't (couldn't?) recognise any input
devices and was in low-quality graphics mode. It asked me what I
wanted to do via some radio buttons and a next button. But it didn't
recognise the input devices so I couldn't operate the buttons to move
out of the loop I was stuck in. Bit frustrating that, typical
computer stuff. To be honest, my first 12.04 install didn't wipe the
system or the existing software, and things are now flying again,
speed-wise, so it was all for the bet in the end.
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