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Invisible ad on Facebook 12th December 2011 2:53 PM
“Thank you all for your great support”

Great feedback Lina and glad it's worked out well for you
Hmmm, here's a report that no doubt cost a fortune and the end results could have been predicted by my granny.

"Royal Bank of Scotland nearly collapsed in 2008 because of poor management decisions, inadequate regulation and a flawed supervisory system..."

BBC business editor Robert Peston said: "The costs of the debacle have been enormous.

"Taxpayers had to rescue the bank by injecting
“Maybe we should all go out there and make some BIG mistakes!!!”

Made a few clunkers over the years, never been rewarded though

Must try harder!
Makin a list... 12th December 2011 10:35 AM
I know what would have been the nicest, my Mum sent me an Xmas cake in 1989 when I was based on the Ascension Island... never turned up though. Still waiting for it Good old Royal Mail
The wheels of inefficient bureaucracy grind ever onwards...and we reward incompetence with a
Eurozone crisis rolls on and on... 9th December 2011 9:59 AM
So today was supposed to be the day when some magic agreement was reached and the Eurozone was saved, or at least according to the media hype

An EU wide treaty change was scuppered by the UK, although 23 countries have come to an agreement out of 27.

Apparently the new plan is to get an agreement by March, when it's spring and everyones a bit more cheerful.

Some of the numbers are staggering, "a ceiling on the size of the eurozone's bailout would be capped at 500bn euros (
Looks like Twitter is reacting to recent changes with FB and Google+ and is piloting brand pages with 21 companies.

So that will yet another business page we have to create, monitor or leave to wither and die...

Twitter Launch Partners Experiment With Brand Page Content | Digital - Advertising Age
Car repairs 9th December 2011 9:34 AM
“As an update, it is only 15 months later, I went ahead with the repairs, and it's been fine ever since! Hoping it stays that way...”

You do know you're now tempting fate....
Royal Mail! 8th December 2011 9:27 PM
“Does anyone still use second class mail?”

Yep, anyone who wants a snail mail invoice, or any docs for HMRC
CGI Clothes Horses... H&M in trouble 8th December 2011 1:45 PM
International Fashion chain H&M have got into trouble for using CGI generated models in their advertising.

Apparently they are reusing the same computer generated "bodies" adding different clothes, and then plonking a models head on top

Love this quote:
"It