As mentioned earlier , I have been suffering from increasing numbers of spam comments. I got tired of it and installed the anti-spam module for Drupal, mentioned in that blog entry. It looks like with a little twisting and adjusting, it catches almost all of the garbage. Cool! more »

It looks like investment banks' profits will be exceptionally high this year as well. On the radio they have been saying that once again "those people with six figure salaries will get extra high bonuses". Not me, unfortunately. more »

Lately I am getting lots of spam comments to my blog entries, mainly concerned with pornographic sites or anti-impotence drugs sale. This is really annoying, and although my comments are not published automatically, but are rather stored in approval queue, it wastes more and more of my time to go through it and delete all of them. A valid option would be to use a captcha module for Drupal. I … more »

It probably cannot get more ridiculous than that: a blind man has been arrested for driving . more »

After almost half a year of refurbishment work the Waterloo and City London underground line will reopen next week, on 11th of September. more »

Those of you who use Microsoft Outlook know about its address auto-completion functionality. You type a few letters into the address field and Outlook presents you with a list of possible completions. The list includes those recipients, to whom you sent e-mails recently. The problems start when an address is no longer relevant, either because the person has got a new one, or you don't write him/her many letters any … more »

According to an article in The Economist, London attracts more capital and hedge fund managers each year. Mayfair starts to threaten NY's dominance as the hedge fund capital of the world. Higher profitability as well as better regulation are quoted as the reasons behind the change. An interesting quote: Amazingly, the FSA (the UK financial regulator) has fined only one hedge-fund manager thus far—and that was for just £750,000 ($1.4m). … more »

An article claims, that the property market in the United States will collapse any moment, since many home owners cannot make necessary mortgage payments. Another one also discusses a problem with payments - this time describing a particular controversial mortgage product, still quite popular in the US, which the article claims was wrongly sold to many people who didn't understand the risks involved. I must admit that both articles were … more »