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england, football club, manchester city, money, website

How to be happy in business.

[Via swissmiss]

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diagram, happiness, money, success, Venn

Parting words from Columbian scammers…

Now for being stupid and believing in witchcraft you will have to work much harder to recoup the money you gave us.

›› Columbian pyramid scheme crooks taunting their victims

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cheat, colombia, crime, finance, money, pyramid, scam, scandal

US Treasury on the US$700bn bailout…

It’s not based on any particular data point… We just wanted to choose a really large number.

›› A Treasury spokeswoman confides in Forbes.com

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america, crisis, finance, money, mortgage, treasury

Wednesday, 17th September 2008

The financial state of the union.

No better illustration exists of a culture where private gain has eclipsed the public good, public service, even public decency, and where the cult of the individual has caused the commonwealth to wither… That’s the culture we’ve lived with. It’s over now. Some new American beginning is needed.

›› Roger Cohen from the IHT lambasting the financial sector

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america, culture, finance, greed, money, public service

The simplest alternative to a wallet.

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alternative, clip, minimal, money, running

English League matches outside England.

The beauty of football is you have some values, you have the teams, you have the fans, you represent something important and you are not a travelling circus.

›› Michel Platini on the crazy English League ‘export’ idea

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barclays, circus, england, harlem globetrotters, league matches, money, overseas, premier league, UEFA

Why I don’t like and don’t use Advertlets.com…

I signed up with Advertlets when they first launched, but never quite served out their ads here. After logging in again, I think I know why I never used them.

The choice of ad sizes from them is limited to about five.
You don’t have the option of showing text ads.
The smallest ad size is 165 pixels in width – 120 pixels would be a good ’small size’.
There’s no option to serve text ads.
You can’t really customise the colours of the ad frame – it would be nice to be able to select the border colours, logo colour, etc.
And yeah, there’s no option of text ads.

( An actual ad served by Advertlets.com )

Honestly, I actually think Advertlets is a good product. Bloggers and self-publishers in Asia can serve targeted ads and earn some cash, while their readers get to see relevant ads for Asia-oriented products & services.

I am sure they will tweak their offerings as they grow, but until I can choose text ads and be able to customise their appearance, I’ll stick to Adsense.

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ads, adsense, advertlets, banner, blog, google, malaysia, money, nuffnang, singapore

Monday, 28th January 2008

Where in the world can you lose $34 billion, and still get hired.

It is always an assumption on Wall Street that it is not the individuals that lose money; it’s the system. You can fail big time, but you can also succeed big time.

›› IHT explains the way Wall Street operates