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More useful Cantonese phrases can be found here. (although I don't know how my husband's favourite "my hovercraft is full of eels" would be useful at Sibos...unless...)

Ted Kaufman is the junior senator from Delaware who was 'appointed' to the Senate, not elected, in order to fill the space left by Joe Biden (who became vice president).

Now sure how much power and influence this guy has in the Senate since he will probably be voted out in 2010. Not even on any finance commitees.

I have to say that was a rather harsh lesson for a 16 year old. I had assumed this young lady was at least over 21.

While the Facebook status was obviously a "mistake." I think the manager's decision to sack someone, who in my eyes is still a child, on Facebook was equally childish and unprofessional.

The manager should have taken her aside when she came back to work and told her she was fired in the office--then this young lady would have learned a valuable lesson on how to behave properly in a job.

Ah, it isn't easy being the most level headed and mature person in the room ;-)

If I hadn't seen the press release I wouldn't believe it.

Excuse me please while I hang up my 'battle-axe', I need to go 'bust some balls' and it is very difficult trying to do two at once while wearing such a short skirt and low-cut top!

Methinks this PR person needs some quiet lessons on how to make tea by a female Nomura executive.

I'm glad you enjoyed the webcast. One of the more interesring talking point during the discussion was the idea that you can have 'good design' without RIA and vice versa.

Financial services are very interested in the potential of RIA technologies. One of the dangers is when firms use RIA to simply offer a "better packaged" single dealer trading portal.

There is a certain type of person who like to pour scorn on anything that brands itself as innovative or (God forbid) cutting edge.

But the current backlash against the hype surrounding cloud computering should not take away from the truly innovative nature of clouds, streams and other so-called 'cool' technologies.

The battle for the desktop (getting on or getting off) has waxed and wanned for years. Cloud computing has a lot of potential in the financial services - let's hope we see more practial solutions and less marketing drivel.

(Grid Designer's Blog, Brian? I shall bookmark that one ;-)

Remember with both the Goldman Sachs guy and these UBS ex-employees, they have only been accused of theft, not convicted of theft. Let people, (even evil quant traders), be innocent until proven guilty, guys!

Wow, that was the most insightful analyst report I have ever read. The most surprising insight, I feel, is this: "Teenage boys (generally) watch more TV when it is the football season." Good stuff.

Interesting side note. Those clever people at Carnegie Mellon have cracked the Social Security code. See yesterday's NY Times article here.

Yes, it looks nice, but what are you supposed to do in it? Apply for a loan or order a chai latte?