Dave Winer asks:

Do you keep your savings in more than one currency? Is there an online bank that does this well, one that a US citizen can use (that is, it sends 1099’s to the IRS). Any ideas would be much appreciated.

I have no idea what a 1099 is, and possibly no need to know, but HSBC gave us a bank account that has three separate sub-accounts: current (HKD), savings (HKD), and savings-currencies. This last one handles 11 currencies I think. I only use one, Euros, basically, but I know there’s a bunch of them. I have no idea whether HSBC does the same in the US, or outside HK for that matter, but that wouldn’t surprise me. Of course there’s that little thing called local regulations and laws, and I have no idea what the US want and doesn’t want banks to do regarding FX.

When you want to criticize, first learn how to spell.

Déjà que l’équipe de France n’a pas brillé hier, mais si en plus les “journalistes” de Yahoo France se mettent à faire de grausses fottes de grammaire, ça va pas aller. Dans la phrase Les Bleus se sont fait croqués par les Pumas, essayer de remplacer croqués par le verbe mordre, et vous m’en direz des nouvelles…

You know it’s a good sport when the players of other nations speak French with a southern accent; when the captain of the Argentinian team is called Augustin Pichot, and the French captain is called Ibañez…

I found the opening ceremony a bit lame, unprofessional — but it’s the sixth edition. Anyway, Allez Les Petits™

Last time when I was in Saigon I had this funny thought, while trying to decipher Vietnamese:

“Dang, it looks like Cantonese written in Pinyin the day after a very bad bender”