Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. |
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May you live in interesting times .. 
The old Chinese curse ran “may you live in interesting times…” – we are certainly living in interesting times now. With banks being Nationalised (Northern Rock and the Bradford & Bingley Loan Book) major financial institutions having to ask the UK Government for support (Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB, HBOS etc) and whole countries on the verge of bankruptcy it is no wonder that the UK and World Stock Markets have been volatile of late. The worldwide web has bought a situation where we no longer have discrete national, or continental, stock markets. We, effectively, now have one worldwide stock market which is open in different parts of the World at different times according to their working day. Thus a problem in one part of the World soon spreads. |
