Sunday 28 September 2008

Getting interactive

Although I've been posting pix on the internet since Nov 2000, it's only a few months since I started regular chatting, in the NBN* chatroom. And it wasn't until this month that I installed Yahoo Messenger on my computer. It's taken a long time for me to become interactive, then.

My first chat (with a crossdresser called Sally) went well, but was fairly short because we found we both wanted to go off and watch the Saturday night football. It was a good warm-up, though.

I'm going to get a bit more used to the privacy settings on Yahoo before I activate my webcam. Yeah, that's the next step, but I'm going to be cautious! I still don't know if it's true that webcams can be tapped by outsiders but it wouldn't surprise me.

* Feb 2009 note: NBN = newbudnudes.com (a free website where people can post pix, and chat).

Wednesday 17 September 2008

Maybe crossdressers should run the economy

Yeah, maybe we x-dressers should be in charge?

If I'd been running Lehman Brothers (formerly the fourth-largest US investment bank, now bankrupt) then there's no way I'd have let them build a house of cards on a debt bubble. It's a position founded on crap. Just WTF were they up to?

We've seen a bunch of people lend money to house-buyers without proper checks on their ability to pay it back. And... surprise, surprise, some go into default. The people who lent the money don't give a fuck because they can sell the debt onwards - and it's these repackaged debts that caused the credit crunch. A lot of the debts were worthless (or "sub-prime") but nobody cared so long as they were saleable. People like Lehman regarded these packages as assets, as good as cash.

Then one day somebody had the sense to not buy them. Then others didn't buy them either. Then a load of people shat themselves, thinking WTF am I holding in my portfolio, OMG

And that's where we are today.

Tomorrow's another story.

Meanwhile, I just wiggle my butt in panties from time to time and don't ever buy other people's debts.