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• Business, Energy

  $130M market cap for Calpine

  12.20.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on $130M market cap for Calpine

  Things continue to look grim for Calpine, the independent power producer struggling to emerge from bankruptcy protection. Squeezed between declining margins (real terms, not necessarily GAAP terms with special charges coming off the books etc.) demanding creditors, one has to wonder if Calpine will emerge from the proceedings now. Earlier this week the company announced […]

• Business, Media

  Dvorak Steals Copyrighted Work

  12.18.07 | Permalink | 18 Comments

  Confused about link etiquette? Check this handy primer. Here’s the scene of the crime on John Dvorak’s (PC Magazine) blog. I’m glad they liked my work, but wished they would have a) given attribution and b) not had the audacity to use my bandwidth in the commission of the theft. Come John, you’re in the […]

• Business

  $661,400 Per Year

  12.18.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on $661,400 Per Year

  Goldman Sachs pays the Big BucksPhoto Credit: iStock Photo Life is Good at Goldman Sachs. Wrap your head around this: Goldman Sachs employs 30,522 people globally. Their salaries and bonuses this year were $20,500,000,000 (that’s $20.5B) meaning that if the wealth were spread around evenly (it’s not) that would come to $661,400 per staff member. […]

• Business, Energy

  Geothermal Development and Finance Workshop

  12.10.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Geothermal Development and Finance Workshop

  The Geothermal Energy Association, a group that is effectively the geothermal industry’s lobby in Washington, D.C., is sponsoring another Development and Finance Workshop. We’ve attended two of these and can say, for people trying to break into geothermal, they’re a value-added event. Also, like all of these events, it’s proven to be an excellent networking […]

• Business, Commentary

  Sunday Schism

  12.09.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Apparently, the message on this sign is not true. It is not my intent to post frequently about religion, but I keep seeing things that prompt me to comment. Thus, another entry on religion. I’ve commented earlier that no religion is any more or less valid than any other religion and recently I read an […]

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