I wish I could say something profound today, but an explosion in Makati’s Glorietta mall this afternoon killed eight people and injured 80 to 100 more (depending on where you get your news). The explosion was suspected to be caused by a bomb. What puzzles me is that the malls (and most commercial buildings) in… Read More »
After the embarrassment of having to announce repeated delays to the delivery of its flagship super jumbo, the folks at Airbus must be gloating over the similar misfortune that has befallen its rival. Boeing said that it would have to postpone the first deliveries of its new 787 Dreamliner to late November or December 2008.… Read More »
No, I’m not talking about the disastrous performance by Britney Spears at the recent MTV awards. Seems like average folks like you and me have gotten tired of aspiring to have the impossibly thin figure of fashion models. Now the tide is turning. Following the banning of super-skinny models (i.e. those with a body mass… Read More »
Saw Gina on newspapers: She won a “Miss Sexy” title in a beauty contest! How things have changed!
A 12-person jury in Duluth, Minnesota has found a Minneapolis woman named Jammie Thomas liable for piracy and ordered her to pay US$222,000 to six music companies for illegally downloading and sharing copyrighted music over a peer-to-peer network. The six music companies – Capitol Records, Sony BMG, Arista Records LLC, Interscope Records, UMG Recordings Inc.,… Read More »
According to Warren Trokis, a manager at Shoprite, a South African grocery chain in Lagos, Nigeria: “Business is good here, and Nigeria is safer than South Africa. In South Africa armed robbers will take your money and kill you, but here in Nigeria, they will take your money and apologize.” (Source: “South African Invasion“, FORTUNE… Read More »