. . . is when you get phone calls at work from pump-and-dump operators. The guy on the phone just now told me he was from Addison Capital Management’s New Delhi office. This outfit has called me a few times in the past, usually to pitch some wealth management deal (offshore accounts to shelter my [...]
Archive for the ‘general’ Category
The oldest words in English
Link of the day: An interesting look at language-related stuff comes from the University of Reading, where researchers have used powerful computers to figure out which words in the English language have stuck around unchanged for the longest time and to predict which ones are likely to disappear in the future. The rundown is that [...]
A child custody story to watch?
My company gets lots of unsolicited messages from people around the world looking to get something published. Today as I was cleaning out our catch-all address, erasing several hundred spam notes and forwarding or responding to the two or three messages that actually needed attention, I saw this press release from someone at Turkey’s Dogan [...]
News roundup
In “Sport ‘bought access to Olympics’” the BBC looks into the possibility that keirin cycle racing organizers in Japan splashed a bit of money around to get the sport admitted to the Olympic lineup. Shocking, shocking to see a gambling industry involved in shady financial deals. I will have to confront my friend at the [...]
No smoking
Kin’en Style is a site that lets you search for smoke-free restaurants. There’s an English section up as well, although its list contains zero establishments, making it somewhat less useful than the Japanese version. (Time for the obligatory plug for Enchanté, my in-laws’ restaurant in Yotsuya San-chome. Lunch hours are smoke-free there as well.) (Via [...]
