Australia's Ian Thorpe has announced that he's retiring from competitive swimming at the ripe old age of 24, and he did it like only the Aussies can by citing he's won Olympic gold medals, set world records, and now really couldn't be arsed to try and break his own records.
Ding dong, the Loon has gone. It's with great joy I read today, that Steve Milunovich has decided to leave Merrill Lynch to start his own hedge fund. This man is a bit of an ass and single handedly managed to influence Sun's (and other company) share prices purely by spouting forth his "research". Read more in The Register's piece …