Outstanding.

I haven't blogged in a while for a variety of reasons, primarily apathy and procrastination I should admit. However, I was moved this morning to get back on the blogging trail by this frankly outstanding pice of human endeavour. How good is this?

The ridiculousness of the market.

Did anyone see this? Porsche, a company worth around about $7bn has managed to acquire options of up to 75% ownership of Volkswagen, a company worth up to $115bn, by playing the hedge funds at their own game. Of course, now the hedge funds are complaining about it which is a real shame for them. I particularly like the comment made by the former Deputy Chancellor of Germany, Franz Munterfering, re certain people in the financial services industry:

"Some financial investors spare no thought for the people whose jobs they destroy. They remain anonymous, have no face, fall like a plague of locusts over our companies, devour everything, then fly on to the next one."

Masters of the universe, if you will. Or not.

Guess I was wrong.

You know how I wrote a post about the Al Burj in Dubai being massive? Turns out it's not so massive in comparison to this badboy:



Ridiculous! It is part of a litany of projects that are mooted for construction in Dubai, of which more can be found here. I particularly like the Dubai Death Star and The Cloud. Sounds like some architects have been watching a little too much Star Wars.

A thing of beauty.

I love Scrabble. it's one of my favourite games. It saddens me that I no longer get to play it face to face very often, so imagine how pleased I was to find that Facebook had it in an application called Scrabulous. Pretty pleased. Not as pleased as when I played the word 'tentacle' for all 7 letters out and a 50 point bonus. I was very pleased about that. Not as pleased as after my next go which will be ANOTHER 7 letter word out and ANOTHER 50 point bonus! LOOK!


I love Scrabble. I suppose you'll be wanting proof of my play though?

Here it's!


Who would have thought the word 'invalid' would make someone so happy? And before any of you start trying to burst my bubble- I play the games for a couple of minutes over the course of a few days. And yes, the thesis is *nearly* done. Honest.

Still, two 7 letter words in a row. That NEVER happens to me. I'm so glad blogger allows me to document this milestone in my life.