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  Liquidity Crisis

  07.23.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  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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  Cloud Seeding: HP eats EDS

  05.13.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Cloud Seeding: HP eats EDS

  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 […]

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  Sears Story: A Tale of Incompetence

  05.10.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Sears Story: A Tale of Incompetence

  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!) […]

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  Make Money from Your Blog

  05.10.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Note: I’ve pretty much given up on blogging as a money making exercise, it now just provides an outlet for things I want to say. It’s true I do derive some small financial benefit from so doing, but the work far outstrips the reward… If you blog, or even if you run a “regular” website, […]

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  No MicroHoo

  05.04.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on No MicroHoo

  Attribution: Dan Appleman Yesterday Microsoft walked away from the deal that would have combined the companies at a price tag of around $46B. I love Yahoo, I use My Yahoo as my start page (and have for years and years.) I think Yahoo does some great stuff, but $46B was a big premium over intrinsic […]

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