Today is the 29th of February — the leap day, in a leap year.
And old English tradition was that women could propose marriage only on leap years. Supposedly, a 1288 law by Queen Margaret of Scotland, required that fines be levied if a marriage proposal was refused by the man. Because men felt that put them at too great a risk, the tradition was in some places tightened to restricting women's proposals to the leap day – 29th of February.
In Greece, it was believed that getting married in a leap year is bad luck for the couple. Thus, mainly in the middle of the past century, couples avoided setting a marriage date in a leap year.So we're going to talk about marriages and alliances this morning.
- Apple and their carriers
- Sprint and Nextel's disasterous marriage
- Motorola and Nortel's rumoured marriage
See you at 11 AM EST
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
