Here's the damages: More than one person who has been hired by my firm has been fired for a falsified CV/résumé (here's a thought - why is it that US wants to use a French name, and the UK wants to use Latin? (Curriculum vitae) - pretty screwy...I thought we both used English, but hey...) . We check *everything* you put down. If it says that in 1988 you worked for 3 months in a pizza parlour, it gets backtracked and checked. If it doesn't add up, that's it...you're out. No "if...". No "but...". How would you like to be just settling into your job 6-7 weeks in, only to be frog-marched to the door and ejected? I can't believe this stuff still goes on...

There's a simple reason for this - the price of petrol (gas) in the UK. Average price per liter in the UK is 98.9p (http://www.petrolprices.com/) Which is 374.38 p / US gallon = 6.30USD / US gallon (www.xe.com) So we're all pretty fixated on fuel efficiency. Hence the majority of cars now sold are Diesel, which although has a slightly higher cost (2-5% typically) is easily offset by the high MPG you get. One of the most popular small saloons on the road is the BMW 320d - this does 58.9MPG (imperial) = 47MPG US and yet does 0-60 in under 8 seconds and a top speed of 143mph (http://www.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/pricesandspecifications_technical_specs/0,,1156_181246516__bs-Mw%3D%3D%40bb-TEkwOA%3D%3D%40bm-WkoxNw%3D%3D,00.html?tab=technicalSpec)

If you're after something mathematical, you could of course try Kate Bush http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aerial-Kate-Bush/dp/B000BE PLUE singing PI (track 2) to roughly 150 decimal places. Shame she gets it wrong http://usability.typepad.com/confusability/2005/11 /kate_bush_sings.html