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Listed below are comments made by MarkHarrisonUK between Friday, 13th June 2008 and Wednesday, 1st July 2009.

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Listening to Mr iPhone 9:13pm on 01 Jul 2009 A Moose (Comment 15).

He didn't say he hadn't HEARD OF Jonathan Ive.

He said he hadn't HEARD him SPEAK before.
Chrome - first impressions 8:30pm on 02 Sep 2008 As a developer, I've the obvious mixed feelings - another browser to test everything against, and the fact that it's promoted by Google means that it WILL get lots of users.

As a techy end user, I'm not so interested in the user interface changes, which, as you say, aren't a big deal for FF3 users... but the "under the hood stuff" for reliability appeals.

What I'm most interested in is whether the extensions that Google has made to JavaScript will catch on... and therefore whether the next generation of IE, Firefox and Safari will play "let's work in the same way", or whether we're in for a rehash of the mid 1990s, where every browser manufacturer had their own way of doing stuff.
Bradford & Bingley rescued (again) 11:15pm on 03 Jul 2008 Robert,

The one thing I seem to be failing to grasp in all this is WHY (other than pressure from the FSA) the board seemed so set on rejecting the Resolution offer.

Two weeks ago, it seemed to present a better deal for shareholders than TPG's... so to have lost it was kind of poor... but now for this to happen?

Can you shed any light on what went on?
FSA burns hedge funds 6:16pm on 13 Jun 2008 Your "short-termist and thick" comment has, I'm afraid, gone a long way to reducing my respect for you.

I suspect that the fund managers in question could point to many, many, examples in which lending shares has improved the returns for their pensioners AND helped balance their risk/exposure profile.

Surely there are three supportable positions:

- Ban short sales altogether (and run the risk of driving hedge funds overseas)

- Laisez-faire

- Insist that ALL short positions/share loans had to be published.... It's hard for anyone to make a serious argument that extra transparency would be anything other than an overall benefit to the economy.

Personally, I lean to the third :-)

... however, creating a two-tier system in which the FSA could decide which companies had "protection" and which didn't isn't going to help anyone?

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