Archive for September, 2008
Damn, Why Didn’t I Buy Stock Yesterday?
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008So after yesterday’s huge decline, the DOW came back big today. I’m kicking myself now — why the heck didn’t I buy some stock yesterday?
You Don’t Want to Miss This — Presidential Debate Rap (Spaceship Excellent Episode 5)
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008You can view other Spaceship Excellent videos on their YouTube channel.
A Sincere Heartfelt Message from a Little Boy
Saturday, September 27th, 2008WMG Blog Day
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Today is World Millennieum Development Goals Blogging Day, with the aim of raising awareness for the millennium development goals that were put together back in 2000. If you’re not familiar with the 8 world development goals, here they are:
Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty
Achieve Universal Primary Education
Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Reduce Child Mortality
Improve Maternal Health
Combat [...]
Month to Month Contracts for Verizon
Monday, September 22nd, 2008It’s about freaking time (from the consumers perspective) someone in the mobile industry woke up.
The Generation Project
Saturday, September 20th, 2008Here’s the idea behind The Generation Project, an interesting site that I came across via e-mail:
The range of experiences available to many of America’s children is inexcusably narrow. Schools in low-income neighborhoods are often unable to provide students with a wide breadth of academic and extracurricular activities. Because many parents in these same neighborhoods cannot [...]
We all Have an Opportunity to Make a Difference
Monday, September 15th, 2008I’ll admit it — I’m hooked on the benefits of microfinance and making a long term difference in advancing the microfinance movement is the reason I started myKRO and the reason I regularly lend on Kiva. After visiting the Dominican Republic last winter and seeing faces such as the ones below, I can’t help myself.
But [...]
Spaceship Excellent
Monday, September 15th, 2008An former colleague of mine (the same guy behind Mac or PC and Pillow Justice) is now in the midst of a new adventure — spaceship excellent. I thought I’d share a few videos for those interested.
Introduction:
Episode 1 - Black Rock City, NV
Episode 2 - San Francisco, CA
You can follow their journey across the US [...]
Matt Damon on Sarah Palin - “Absurd”
Friday, September 12th, 2008My friend sent me this today and I thought it was worth sharing.
[via The Swamp]
A Little Reminder…We are Fortunate
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Tom Vanderwell (who happens to be a contributor to Zillow’s new mortgage blog — Mortgages Unzipped) has a post worth reading over on his blog that should be a good reminder to us to think about how blessed we really are. He says -
When I think about what we have and how blessed we are [...]
A-Space - Myspace/Facebook for (Real) Spies
Sunday, September 7th, 2008It looks like the CIA & FBI (and other US intelligence agencies) are getting on the social networking bandwagon. The project sounds interesting. From CNN:
The program is called A-Space, and it’s a social-networking site for analysts within the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies.
Instead of posting thoughts about the new Avenged Sevenfold album or Jessica Alba movie, [...]
Part of the Reason I like Obama…
Monday, September 1st, 2008…is because he stands firm on issues like this.
John McCain’s Many Houses
Monday, September 1st, 2008Seriously, John McCain has a lot of houses.