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As part of my job I read a large number of newspapers online. I get to see the delightful standards of Indian journalism, indicating better than aything the way the Indian mind works. On many sites, I have the joys of reading stuff by junior reporters who clearly (a) know nothing about business and (b) don't want to be financial journalists anyway. I'm used to this on Radio Four but, amazingly, some of these people seem to be finding their way into Reuters and Bloomberg.
So, it takes a lot to surprise me when I see stuff online. But I was a little bemused to see the following at the bottom of a financial news story this morning:
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"Del.icio.us" ? "Digg"?
God help us. Particularly given the identity of the newspaper concerned. The UK's very own Daily Telegraph.
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Later:
Forgot to mention. I saw an SUV driving through Trafalgar Square a few days ago. On the number plate were five cards next to the number, just in case the viewer was unaware of the poker reference. And the plate number itself?
K4o LOL
Excellent.
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Headline on the BBC Business News This Afternoon:
Dubai pays $100m to buy the Queen Elizabeth 2 liner which will turn into a floating hotel.
Now, that is some serious balla stuff.
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It took a "C++ Visual Basic buffer overrun" signal when I tried to start up Rio Music Manager to make me realize that I hadn't actually run a virus check on one of my computers for many a moon. So long, in fact, that my version of Ad-Aware was seriously out of date. It foud two infections, so now I'm running a full "deep scan". If that fails to cure the problem with the Rio software, then I'm a bit puzzled.
And, yay, I found a malware file on the D drive. And, boo, still getting the buffer overrun error for Rio Music Manager. Weird, as it's run fine for a couple of years. A corrupted file when RMM scans the system would be the logical guess.
Perhaps some judicious deleting of files might be necessary.
One day, of course, someone in the computer world will prvide a solution to a problem that I have with a computer. Actually, that has happened. The guy in Hanoi mastered it. But that was actually AT the computer. I don't think that any instructions that I have followed online have ever worked.
So, it takes a lot to surprise me when I see stuff online. But I was a little bemused to see the following at the bottom of a financial news story this morning:
Post this story to: del.icio.us | Digg | Newsvine | NowPublic | Reddit
"Del.icio.us" ? "Digg"?
God help us. Particularly given the identity of the newspaper concerned. The UK's very own Daily Telegraph.
+++++++++
Later:
Forgot to mention. I saw an SUV driving through Trafalgar Square a few days ago. On the number plate were five cards next to the number, just in case the viewer was unaware of the poker reference. And the plate number itself?
K4o LOL
Excellent.
+++++++
Headline on the BBC Business News This Afternoon:
Dubai pays $100m to buy the Queen Elizabeth 2 liner which will turn into a floating hotel.
Now, that is some serious balla stuff.
+++++++
It took a "C++ Visual Basic buffer overrun" signal when I tried to start up Rio Music Manager to make me realize that I hadn't actually run a virus check on one of my computers for many a moon. So long, in fact, that my version of Ad-Aware was seriously out of date. It foud two infections, so now I'm running a full "deep scan". If that fails to cure the problem with the Rio software, then I'm a bit puzzled.
And, yay, I found a malware file on the D drive. And, boo, still getting the buffer overrun error for Rio Music Manager. Weird, as it's run fine for a couple of years. A corrupted file when RMM scans the system would be the logical guess.
Perhaps some judicious deleting of files might be necessary.
One day, of course, someone in the computer world will prvide a solution to a problem that I have with a computer. Actually, that has happened. The guy in Hanoi mastered it. But that was actually AT the computer. I don't think that any instructions that I have followed online have ever worked.
