A Counting School - Hardcore Chartered Accountancy

He couldn't go to jail gracefully.

Conrad Black was convicted on four counts ; it's hard to fight video evidence that shows him taking away evidence which a court had ordered. Of course, his expensive lawyers will try anyway. Trying to get him to go to jail seems to be akin to trying to stick a cat in a blender. To pull off a sort of amusing shot at the iPhone and a bizarre online marketing campaign for blenders, anyway. If you think that's disgraceful, you should read what the Star considers a highlight of the trial: The trial was complex and involved arcane points of securities law and corporate finance. The most memorable moments of the trial came when Black, who did not testify, made statements outside the court asserting his innocence and his wife Barbara Amiel Black called reporters “vermin” and referred to one as a “sl‍ut.”

Verizon makes me laugh: .002 dollars <>= .002 cents

It's been a while since I posted anything from Videosift just for the heck of it - but this one is a winner. The clip is merely a recording of a conversation between, George Vaccaro, a man overcharged for service by Verizon and their inability to comprehend the difference between two thousandths of a dollar, and two thousandths of a cent. If you're impatient, here's the three minute remix . Some people have too much time on their hands. To add insult to injury, Verizon e-mailed him and offered to give back half the money they're overcharging him. Insane. Now before I go on, I'll spoil the suspense - Verizon, after making an insulting 50% refund offer, finally offered the full 100% earlier today . Now Verizon wasn't very apologetic in its response - they want to make it sound like a misunderstanding. If it was, it's only on their end. As slashdotter Lproven writes, "And it must be said that the customer here is really not very good at explaining the arithmetic. . . . [B]ut what he mostly...