The email came at night, but it wasn't completely unexpected. In a terse missive, Amazon accused me of violating their Terms of Service (TOS) and terminated my account. Reasons given: copying pages and links to other sites and search engines. In other words spamming other sites with specific Amazon links tagged with my id to — Continue reading »
Time Travel
📆 May 11, 2010
People may find Stephen Hawking's ideas of alien encounters humorous, but it'll be silly not to give it any possibility that intelligent life exists outside our boundaries. There's a chance, even if a small one. But what recently captured my attention was Hawking's latest musings about time travel, wormholes, and speed of light. I think — Continue reading »
Stock Market Rally, Euro
📆 May 10, 2010
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 »
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