Credit Suisse has become the first major bank to
target gays with a bespoke private banking service provided
by gay advisers. The Swiss banking giant’s new
service will cover all the traditional aspects of private banking,
alongside tailored services to deal with events such as civil
partnership and even adoption. Credit Suisse says that
"gay role models - such as Boris Johnson’s chief of staff Nicholas Boles
- have helped boost the confidence of the younger gay community -
leading to an increased desire to be dealt with by those that
understand their lifestyle.
Stephen
Connolly (the CEO of the unit) and his colleague Toby FitzGerald’s are openly advertised as gay.
What's next? Gay banknotes?
And it is the only video that I will ever like from John ;-)
Beau Biden, son of Sen. Joe Biden, talks about the trials and heartbreak that his father has had to overcome. This is honest, moving and powerfull.
Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each -
giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up.
This is Pecha Kucha - a Japanese invention now in hundreds of cities all over the globe. Yesterday night it was in Rotterdam and it was a great experience.
MATTHEW MITCHAM was brave enough to dive from a 10-metre platform
for Olympic gold and courageous enough to do what no Australian
athlete has done: he was
the first Australian to go to the Olympics declaring his
homosexuality
When Mitcham balanced on the Beijing diving tower last week the one person who was by his side for the entire tumultuous
journey was his partner, Lachlan.
He won GOLD for Australia.
A balding 31-year-old Frenchman nicknamed the Chameleon fooled
social workers and fellow pupils into believing he was a teenage orphan
and spent weeks at a school before being unmasked. Frédéric
Bourdin passed himself off as an imaginary 15-year-old Spaniard,
Francisco Hernandez-Fernandez. He is said to have previously assumed 39
other false identities. This time he dyed his greying
hair blond, meticulously shaved his beard, applied facial hair remover
and covered his bald patch with a baseball cap to achieve the desired
effect.He was taken into care after a local resident
believed his account that he had run away when both his parents were
killed in a car crash.
Bourdin spent a month in a children's home and secondary school in Pau, south-western France, without raising suspicions... He spend a couple of months in Arizona before pretending to be a lost son of a familiy who took him as their own son... even with a terrible french accent :-) I found a youtube video of Frederic here.
It is official: The Netherlands is the only country in the world where there are more bikes then people...
Almost 700 meters high: The Burj is almost reached its highest point. Wow: its really tall!
I really liked the Microsoft surface when I first tried it years ago. But now with the iPhone it seems like something of the museum of ancient computing. Today Microsoft Labs showed it again and I didn't like it. The surface is rough and the interface ackward. The possibilies very limited. I hope that Microsoft will develop this further but have my doubts...
While I was sitting in the lobby of hotel Rex I tried my new iPhone app: Exposure which connects flickr with your iPhone. A nice feature is: photo's of your location which uses the GPS part of the iPhone to find flickr pictures of the area where you are at that moment. Funny enough the first picture that pop-uped was the one of the chair in which I was sitting.... :-)
