We knew it was coming, but I didn't expect the Europeans to pull off a rescue plan as early and as boldly as they did. Good for them and good for the markets which responded in kind by rocketing up today around the globe. Banking shares, specially the battered European ones, like ING, were on — Continue reading »
Voyager Spacecrafts
📆 May 8, 2010
It's astonishing to think how far from home both Voyager crafts have travelled, nearly 10.5 billion miles. Equally amazing is the fact that both crafts are still working and in communication with Earth. Of course at that distance, it takes messages over a half a day to reach them and another half a day for — Continue reading »
Stock Market Drop
📆 May 6, 2010
As I saw the market take a deep dive around 2:30 today my reaction was a mixture of fear and excitement. I'd never seen anything like this before. I saw Apple's stock take a nosedive to under $200 in a matter of minutes. There were red figures everywhere, almost as if a child was commandeering — Continue reading »
Dollar Rally
📆 May 4, 2010
The last time the euro was below $1.30 USD was over a year ago. It's below $1.30 once again. This despite the fact that the consensus had been for the US dollar to continue to be under pressure and see further declines. The fundamentals in the US haven't really changed much. There's still a monster-sized — Continue reading »
YouTube Search Stories Video Creator
📆 April 30, 2010
Found this new toy on YouTube today that lets you create a video on the fly, kind of. It's called Search Stories Video Creator. Basically you give it a number of search terms and set the target search engines to some of Google's properties, like web search, news search, or Google maps. Click a button — Continue reading »
Hello WordPress, Goodbye Blogger
📆 April 29, 2010
Blogger recently announced the end of ftp publishing and after 7 years on that platform, I decided to migrate my blog to a self-hosted WordPress platform, and after a few days of tweaking the conversion is finally over. Yeah I know, the template looks nothing like WordPress. I actually had to "uglify" a classic template — Continue reading »
Google Stock Drop
📆 April 18, 2010
Google earns $2 billion in its last quarter and investors reward it with a 7.5% drop in share? Here's my list of why it dropped: People like to sell into the earnings news. With not much more to expect until the next earnings report, the money is best invested elsewhere. Some companies just can't get — Continue reading »
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