Getting fired is no laughing matter. Which is why it’s extremely important that if you represent the government you work for, you must, at all costs, spell the name of your country correctly!

The general manager of the Chilean mint has been dismissed after thousands of coins were issued with the name of the country spelt wrongly.

The 50-peso coins – worth about 10 cents (6p) – were issued in 2008, but no-one noticed the mistake until late last year. Instead of C-H-I-L-E, the coins had C-H-I-I-E stamped on them. The coins have since become collectors’ items and the mint says it has no plans to take them out of circulation.

Numismatists’ delight

The BBC’s Gideon Long, in the Chilean capital Santiago, says people have been hoarding the coins in the hope their value rises. But the mistake has cost the mint’s general manager, Gregorio Iniguez, and several other employees, their jobs.

It is not the first embarrassing blunder at the Chilean mint, says our correspondent. Last October, someone there sold a rare medal, which should have been housed in the institution’s museum, to a coin collector. A month later, another medal – this one bearing the face of the country’s then President Michelle Bachelet – was inadvertently sold on the open market. The latest blunder has caused a few chuckles in Chile, says our correspondent, and prompted shoppers up and down the country to view their loose change in a new light.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8511910.stm

Behold: The new Apple iPad. Let the lust begin.

Last month, Apple unveiled the iPad that acts almost like a giant iPhone in many ways with the inclusion of a book store.  It’s with no doubt that Apple thinks that it can challenge all the existing competitors in the eBook market and from what we saw with the original iPod, it’s with good reason.  It’s interesting to hear, however, that there has already been some jabs being thrown by Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs even before an actual release date has been set.

As originally reported by the AppleInsider:

“As for the device’s uptime when reading e-books, Jobs said he believes the 10 hours provided will be more than enough for most users. He discredited Mossberg’s suggestion that a backlit LCD display, versus the e-ink on the Amazon Kindle, produces a ‘battery cost.’

‘You know, there isn’t,’ Jobs said. ‘Because you just end up plugging it in. You end up docking it or whatever you’re going to do with it. It’s not a big deal. Ten hours is a long time. Because you’re not going to read for 10 hours.’”

We can only see how this feud is going to play out in the future but can we really expect avid readers to fork over an additional $250.00 for an iPad to serve as a reading device when there are alternatives available that are way more affordable? But then again, it is Apple.

Nothing gets passed by our member KateBob85 and Deletia who snapped a shot of this London Tea ad.

“One of the finest tea in the world”

“One of the finest teas in the world”

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