When is a rose not a rose? When it’s a Facebook app you didn’t install…

Yesterday I noticed I had a new application appear on my Facebook account that I never installed, let alone used—but Send Roses had sent ‘roses’ on my behalf to a number of my contacts, a few of whom told me they, too, had this application added without their consent. They’d sent ‘roses’ to me as well, equally unknowingly.

Friday, May 16th, 2008

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A man who chose 'Lloyds is pants' as his telephone banking password found it changed to 'no it's not' by a Lloyds TSB member of staff. His alternative proposals of 'Lloyds is rubbish', 'Barclays is better' and 'censorship' were all refused. The man is still trying to find a password acceptable to the bank, although it has apologised. Could the bank look any more pathetic right now?

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Eighteen sailors aboard a Royal Navy warship have tested positive for cocaine. All the world is said to love a sailor, but I've personally never found large nostrils (or an interest in cocaine) attractive in any man, even if he wears a lovely uniform!

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