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$6,900, May I Have A Receipt?
09.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Well, I did the math on the bailout. IF it only costs $700,000,000,000 (that’s $700 billion) and there are 303,000,000 (303 million citizens - current census estimate) then each person’s share, child, woman, and man, is just north of $2,300. That means for a family of three like ours, the bill is $6,900. Now, I [...]

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Business, Energy, Innovation
Why Detroit is Dying
09.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Ford’s 65MPG car the US can’t buyAttribution: Business Week
This article in Business Week came across my RSS reader this morning. I read it, and decided to simply post it here in it’s entirety with a link back to Business Week. (Kudos to BW for the story, but shame on you for not hitting the punchline, [...]

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Business
Liquidity Crisis
07.23.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Yesterday I went to the bank to withdraw funds from savings for the purchase of a hybrid vehicle (my current commute is 82 miles round trip with significant carpool lane opportunities for a vehicle with the permits that allow access.) The seller of the vehicle is not willing to accept anything but cash, no problem [...]

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Business, Technology & Science
Cloud Seeding: HP eats EDS
05.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Cloud Services - Compute/Storage Services
In the latest consolidation in the IT industry at the top tier, HP announced a definitive agreement to purchase IT services company EDS for $13.9B. There are many views on why HP would make this move, but to me the obvious play is in the “cloud” computing model that is emerging. [...]

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Business
Sears Story: A Tale of Incompetence
05.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Sears Mangles Appliance Repair
Two weeks ago, our home took a power surge and fried most of the appliances we have. By fried, I mean literally fried, if it was attached to the power circuit and had power flowing into it, it died. A call to Sears on Friday produced a technician on Saturday (good!) along [...]

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