Thinking about moving, again.
I’m toying with the idea of moving this blog to a fixed domain. Why? Well I’d like to be able to use more Wordpress plug-ins and I’m thinking about giving adense a go too.
I hope you the readers won’t hate me for this, but I’m sort of hoping I can resolve my cashflow problems. Especially after I discovered today yet another hold up regarding my blasted invoices. There is also another reason, but I’m not going to reveal this for the moment.
If I were to take the decision to sell my soul to the advertising devil, then I would do my best to turn this blog into a useful resource and a sort of mini-newspaper.
If anyone out there has any thoughts on my plans, then please do comment away.
I’m all ears.
TFR fever
Vultures, in the form of banks and insurance companies, are hovering in increasingly large groups around working Italians’ money at the moment. They are making a serious attempt to gain control of a portion of it. This chunk of money is known as the ‘TFR’.
The almost mythical TFR, if you didn’t know, is a payout full time Italian employees get when they leave their jobs. This payment is related to pay level and length of service and can amount to a significant sum over time. The money could be viewed as being an approximate Italian equivalent to unemployment benefit, I suppose.
Anyway, this ‘fund’ used to be managed by the dear old Italian government, but now, well, up until the end of June, Italian employees can opt to put the management of this money into the hands of banks and insurance companies or to leave the money in the hands of the government (!).
Judging by all the TFR related adverts all over the TV, papers and whatever other advertising medium can be garnered into service, the banks etc must reckon there is a tidy sum to be made and seem to be almost desperate, in a well marketed kind of way, to gain control of this cash.
No wonder certain Italian political figures have been caught chatting to certain banking institutions. Insider dealing? No, perish the thought.
Of course, the current dismally low level of popularity enjoyed by the policos here may also convince people to shift their money out of state hands. Into banks, which have politicians as shareholders possibly? No, no, another silly thought.
Comment Spam
I seem to get my fair share of comment spam - which is all picked up by Wordpress.com’s admirable askimet anti-spam system. Indeed, it picked up several ‘comments’ like this one: ‘m194k’. I’m not sure what these comments are. There is no link, but there are lots of these ‘codes’. It almost looks as though someone is having ago at overloading the Wordpress.com servers.
I suppose these codes could be some student competition aimed at rasing search engine rankings or sommething. Of it is an example of ‘proof of concept’ spam code, which will shortly be used to bring down endless blogs. Who knows.
Odd how people get their kicks.
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