My flatmate was trying out Poker Office 2 last night. Unfortunately it didn't seem to read any cards from Party Poker, and thus didn't work. Oh well.
The global stock market decline from last week appears to be abating. Next to a newsclip on the event, The Metro (free London newspaper) showed a picture of a smiling trader, with the caption stating that the poor guy was relieved that the markets had started to recover. What bullshit! Do those journalists really think that traders make money when the markets rise and lose it when markets fall? If that was the case, trading wouldn't really be a full time job.
The Rotster was rather upset by my Fair Trade post last week, and responded to it
here. I'm not sure if I agree with her arguments, but supermarkets are going to start stocking fair trade stuff over the next few years, and I'm hardly going to go out of my way to avoid paying 3 pence extra for it. So whether or not fair trade is a good idea, the supporters have won already. Anyway, here's an article about fair trade from the BBC [
click here to read it]. It tries to present arguments from both sides of the debate.
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