Just to lighten up the day a little ..... 

My Blackberry Is Not Working!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI

With the help of Apple shares ....

Govt stole my money

New Zealand’s biggest benefit fraudster, who swindled more than $3 million from the tax payer, is accusing authorities of “legalised theft” after his solid investments earned the Government more than he stole.

Wayne Patterson faked 123 identities to gain $3.4m in benefit payments over three years, before being caught in 2006 and jailed for eight years.

Patterson wrote to The Dominion Post from Whanganui Prison angry that he had been forced to pay the Government more than his original theft.

The Social Development Ministry has now recovered $5.5m, a profit of $2.1m, and said he had been ordered to pay a total of $8.6m, “even though I only took $3.4m”, he told the paper.

But Social Development Ministry chief executive Peter Hughes said any expectation Patterson should profit from his crimes was “as appalling as it is outrageous”.

It was initially thought the Government would stand to gain $467,000 from the profit on Patterson’s overseas investments but with the help of Apple shares they returned more than $1m.

The ministry said it had now claimed more than $3.4m and was chasing another $1.5m tied up in Austria.

Patterson claimed his human rights had been violated after secret Austrian court hearings.

But Mr Hughes said he failed to understand how Patterson felt his human rights were violated through the recovery process.

“Instead of whining from his prison cell, he might wish to give a little more thought to the rights of the taxpayers he stole from,” Mr Hughes said.

- NZPA
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10721084

“Analysis of your photo on Facebook shows you are fat and ugly, buy our makeup!”

  - from WIRED

Movie of a Black Swan event (not to be confused with the movie starring Natalie Portman)

Superb: photography
Good: a charming storyline
Warning: insects
Warning: you’ve been warned

http://www.fark.com/vidplayer/6148124

Sad, pathetic but funny if you’ve been paying attention

From Grubers site

There is a new drink that is becoming very popular around the country, it is called the bin-laden.

It is real easy to make also, two shots and a splash of water and you are done.

Financial Planning

Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.  When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed a wife with which to share his fortune . . ..

One evening at an investment meeting he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.  Her natural beauty took his breath away.  “I may look like just an ordinary man,” he said to her, but in just a few years, my father will die, and I’ll inherit $200 million.”

Impressed, the woman obtained his business card and three days later, she became his stepmother.

Women are so much better at financial planning than men!