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Tour de France Widget from Versus

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:34:41 -0400

in shorts walking around NYC after a workout at NYSC

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:08:00 -0400

in shorts walking around NYC after a workout at NYSC

Blockbuster & TiVo - Déjà Vu: I thought I did that 9 years ago!

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:34:00 -0400

I was chuckling when I read the Blockbuster news today and I feel obliged to tell yet another...

Fed to bolster the economy with $1 trillion purchase - a.k.a. the road to hyperinflation

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:01:00 -0400

I wrote a post about 3 weeks ago about the alarming news that I had heard from a bond trader friend...

AIG Discloses Recipients of $75B in Bailout Payments

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:56:09 -0400

new information from AIG on where teh bailout money went. So I was not too far off base in my...

Where did the AIG Bailout money go (what they don't tell us)?

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:17:47 -0400

I recently got an e-mail from my nephew who is a EE PhD Student at Brown. In his e-mail he was...

Comments to my Blockbuster (BBI) article

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:56:00 -0500

I received a bunch of email responses to my previous post (disqus anyone?). Here is an interesting...

Blockbuster and how I almost became the kingpin of cable

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:00:00 -0500

There was an article about Blockbuster (BBI) on Venture Beat yesterday. The trading of the stock was...

So you believe my Hyperinflation theory - what do you do with your money? (Option 2 - REITs and Real Estate)

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:08:37 -0500

The key thing about hyperinflation is the rapid incineration of value - or as my partner @toddDowl...

So you believe my Hyperinfaltion theory - what do you do with your money? (Option 1)

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:00:00 -0500

I had a bunch of people e-mail me after my hyperinflation post titled “AIG expected to report...

Shipwrecks visible on Google Earth

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:28:45 -0500

Google Earth is just amazing. I am also impressed that people take the time to find things - like...

Breaking News: G.D.P. Shrank at 6.2% in Q4

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:51:29 -0500

This is awful and yet another sign of the things to come. The original estimate was 3.8% decline...

Signs of wear and tear for Treasuries

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:50:07 -0500

The article from the Financial Times below is talking to some of the issues I outlined in my last...

AIG expected to report a $60B loss. What does that mean to you?

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:18:00 -0500

The WSJ reported today that AIG is expected to report a quarterly loss of $60B on Monday - sixty...

How do we get to Hyper Inflation?

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:04:15 -0500

My Partner Todd Dagres wrote a pretty provocative blog post on Tech Crunch today. He has a big issue...

Waiting for my wife to finish her tennis match at the Weston...

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:29:07 -0500

Waiting for my wife to finish her tennis match at the Weston Racquet Club. It sucks to have a broken leg…

A must read: The No-Stats All-Star

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:59:33 -0500

From the New York times: The No-Stats All-Star - NYTimes.com

My new bionic leg

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:13:38 -0500

My new bionic leg

"The ninth-century Buddhist master Lin Chi said, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” The..."

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:37:23 -0500

“The ninth-century Buddhist master Lin Chi said, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill...

Darwin, Ahead of His Time, Is Still Influential

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:22:29 -0500

Excellent science article in the New York Times today, very much worth the read. February 10,...