Monday, September 8, 2008

Oopsie

When Microsoft landed the huge and high profile London Stock Exchange account, it published the self-congratulatory ad below:



Yesterday, the exchange went down for 7 hours.  Innuendos aside, it was a bad day for an outtage.  Traders were fuming that they missed out on action related to the Fannie and Freddie takeovers.  Reuters quoted one: "We have the biggest takeover in the history of the known world ... and then we can't trade. It's terrible".

This just shows that public masturbation, while it may feel good at the time, is never a good idea.