And we all know who gave it to him…
H/Ts Everyone
Thursday, 14 May 2009
Geoff Burch - Business Guru
Geoff Burch, the international business guru and speaker, is running a virtual seminar next Tuesday. Designed to attract business leaders in Scotland, anyone can register here.
Headlines.....
Ryanair to charge for not flying Ryanair.
Hansard set to publish leaked details of journalists expense claims.
Swine flu cured by media attention on MPs expenses.
H/T DML
News.....
Man arrested for citizen's arrest. And you wonder why the Police are so unpopular.
MoD 'still failing' on kit supply. The MoD continues to fail our forces.
I Guess You Had To Be There The Barack Obama Celebrity Roast
from Iowahawk.
The Coming Ice Age. So much for global warming.
Slurred by the adoption Nazis: Critics of gay parenting are branded 'retarded homophobes'. Bulls**t.
Time to go, Gorbals: As calls to axe Speaker grow, respected Betty Boothroyd joins critics. Drag him out.
We face biggest slump since Depression, warns Bank chief as he stamps on recovery hopes. I think we had already noticed.
Crowds pay silent tribute to four fallen soldiers killed in bloodiest day in Afghanistan for nearly a year. A great tribute to our fallen.
Elliot Morley claimed £16,000 for mortgage that did not exist: MPs' expenses. Jail time.
Aung San Suu Kyi taken to jail to face trail. The Burmese Junta need a good slap.
Pakistan president accuses Taliban of trying to create 'new world order'. No s**t.
Hugo Chavez threatens to take opposition TV station off air. Time for Hugo to have a rest.
Exercise Flying Rhino cements Army and Air Force links for Afghan battlefield. All we need now is a lot more troops and kit.
Russia warns of war within a decade over Arctic oil and gas riches. More bullying bull from Putin.
Moderate Muslims in Pakistan stir silent majority against Taleban. About bloody time too.
Catholic TV Says Vatican Will Step In-- Obama Will Be Disinvited to Notre Dame. Good.
and finally
"little phil" sheridan and yasser arafat, on israel waging nuclear war against the arabs.
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Origins of Famous Brands..
There are many companies / brands / products whose names were derived from strange circumstances.
Mercedes
This was actually the financier's daughter's name.
Adobe
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apple Computers
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock.
CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.
Compaq
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
Corel
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.
Google
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders- Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'
Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
Hewlett Packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Intel
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce'but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapoor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Microsoft
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.
Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.
ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.
Sony
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
Yahoo!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
H/T Shelly
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
International Security levels....an oldie but a classic
The British are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats in Islamabad and have raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved." Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even "A Bit Cross". Brits have not been "A Bit Cross" since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies all but ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from "Tiresome" to a "Bloody Nuisance". The last time the British issued a "Bloody Nuisance" warning level was during the great fire of 1666.
The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "Run" to "Hide". The only two higher levels in France are "Collaborate" and "Surrender". The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France 's white flag factory, effectively paralysing the country's military capability.
It's not only the French who are on a heightened level of alert. Italy has increased the alert level from "Shout loudly and excitedly" to "Elaborate Military Posturing". Two more levels remain: "Ineffective Combat Operations" and "Change Sides".
The Germans also increased their alert state from "Disdainful Arrogance" to "Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs." They also have two higher levels: "Invade a Neighbour" and "Lose".
Belgians, on the other hand, are all on holiday as usual, and the only threat they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels .
The Spanish are all excited to see their new submarines ready to deploy. These beautifully designed subs have glass bottoms so the new Spanish navy can get a really good look at the old Spanish navy.
Americans meanwhile are carrying out pre-emptive strikes on all of their allies, just in case.
And at a local level...
New Zealand has also raised its security levels - from "baaa" to "BAAAA!". Due to continuing defence cutbacks (the airforce being a squadron of spotty teenagers flying paper aeroplanes and the navy some toy boats in the Prime Minister's bath), New Zealand only has one more level of escalation, which is "Shut, I hope Austrulia will come end riscue us". In the event of invasion, New Zealanders will be asked to gather together in a strategic defensive position called "Bondi".
Australia, meanwhile, has raised its security level from "No worries" to "She'll be right, mate". Three more escalation levels remain: "Crikey!", "I think we'll need to cancel the barbie this weekend" and "The barbie is cancelled". There has not been a situation yet that has warranted the used of the final escalation level.
H/T Rodney
A man is sitting in a bar far from home when Barack Obama comes
on TV. The man looks at the TV and says, "Obama is a horse's ass."
Out of nowhere, a local jumps up and punches him in the face,
knocking the first guy off his bar stool, then stomps out.
He gets up, rubbing his cheek and orders another beer.
Shortly after, Michelle Obama appears on the TV. He looks at the
TV and says, "She is a horse's ass too!"
Out of nowhere, another local punches him on the other side of the
face, knocking him off his bar stool again.
He gets back up and looks at the bartender, "I take it this is
Obama country?"
"Nope." replies the bartender. "Horse country."
H/T Shelly
Coincidence?
2007 - Chinese year of the Chicken - Bird Flu Pandemic devastates parts of Asia
2008 - Chinese year of the Horse - Equine Influenza decimates Australian racing
2009 - Chinese year of the Pig - Swine Flu Pandemic kills hundreds of pigs around the globe.
Has any one else noticed this???!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It gets worse........ Next year......
2010 - Chinese year of the Cock - what could possibly go wrong?
H/T Rodney
Katie Price and Peter Andre are splitting up.
Apparently it all kicked off at the weekend when he heard on the news that the Pope had been in Jordan.
H/T Tim
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