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Make sure your partner is richer than you

Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal has ruled that a couple’s assets should be equally divided upon divorce, no matter what each spouse brought to the union. According to its latest judgment, marriage is a “partnership of equals” and “there is no room for discrimination between husband and wife”. Paul McCartney will most likely disagree. Previously,… Read More »

Friend or foe?

Sometimes acronymns indicate the opposite meaning. Consider this: Friends of the Earth If you shorten this, it becomes “FOE”. Not exactly friendly, huh? Technorati Tags: Friends of the Earth FoE acronymns

Death to social networking

Face it, social networking is a silly idea. The countless social networking sites may be fun and novel at first, but once you’ve established contact with your long-lost “friend” (loosely defined here to include everyone that you’ve come across, no matter how brief the encounter), you’ll get bored quickly with these online procrastination services. That’s… Read More »