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As I thought would happen, or expected, the stock market has been totally hammerred. I had a friend asking me 6 months ago if I thought Apple shares were going back to 200 (sitting at 180 then) , I told him, No, I think its going back to 120 or less....
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I ran into this article SSL Broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate today, Interesting... I think it goes to show how easy is is to overcome technological barriers with more computing power. I'm sure you could have done this with a super computer...
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I've been a shareholder of Potlatch PCH for quite sometime. They operate as a REIT so the dividends are pretty good.. (about 8-10%). Potlatch is a forestry company that manages timerlands and has a paper products manufacturing division called Clearwater...
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A Black Swan is a highly improbable, game changing event. It is something no-one within the bell-curve could possibly have seen or predicted. It is exactly the type of event that major changes in history are made of. The global financial markets have...
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So, Henry Paulson and Ben Bernake are meeting with Congress today to convince then to pass a 700 Billion dollar financing package to give to the Treasury Secretarty (without any insight, or controls). This is ALL wrong! when did we become a socialist...
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Well, I finally bought VMW stock today... I almost bought it last year, whew... good thing I waited... I bought 100 shares at 28.00. I like VMWare, I use thier product all the time at work, I think they are a good company, and virutalization can only...
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It amazes me the number of products being sold in the world which could truly be classified as "snake-oil" If your unfamiliar with that term, here is a quick recap: The snake oil peddler became a stock character in Western movies : a travelling...
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Well, CallOnACT! is now available.. It's been a fun project to work on so far, and were just getting started. Sometimes I wish programming weren't so time consuming and you could work more on things that matter instead of all the tiny little details...
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For some mental exercise and for your cerebral delectation consider the following: The prerequisite to knowledge is doubt. Those who claim to know the truth are simply admitting that they have stopped looking for the truth. I have great respect for those...
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The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight extensible dependency injection container with support for constructor, property, and method call injection. I recently started using Unity, http://www.codeplex.com/unity It's a pretty cool Inversion...
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So it's been about 6 months since my post http://gavinstevens.com/blogs/gavin/archive/2007/09/18/federal-reserve-meeting-on-rates-09-18-07.aspx Where I pointed out the dismal state of rampant inflation.... Since that post the fed has continued to...
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So, the day after Thanksgiving, Google's stock went up $50+ a share... this after falling from $740 to the low $600's in the previous 2 weeks. Then this morning it was up another $12-$14 a share... http://finance.google.com/finance?q=GOOG So in...
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Stock sold off pretty hard today... I haven't picked up any VMWare stock yet. Good thing I didn't buy the other day at $120 share or so, prices hit 90 today. From today's news: SAN FRANCISCO -- VMware ( VMW - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr...
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So, the day has come, Microsoft releases Unified Communications.. I decided not to goto the release in SF, simply because I have too much stuff to do, and there is no reason to spend money to go there. There are plenty of web based resources that I research...
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http://www.microsoft.com/uc/default.mspx So, Microsoft is going to try to get into telephony. I'm sure they will do quite well in the endevour. They already have a good foothold in the Enterprise Server market and alot of companies use an Exchange...