June 2, 2008
With it having been German solar uber alles for some time now, it is hard not to wonder if the cuts to solar subsidies won't make it Germany "unter alles" for a while now. According to Bloomberg, big cuts are...
Judging by a self-penned essay in Portfolio, corporate ambulance-chaser Bill Lerach meant no harm. Here he is in one of the loopier passages explaining why he plead guilty: So why did I plead guilty? If you haven’t been a defendant...
Being "off the grid" is under-rated. I got to thinking about this while sick recently -- yes, my absence here was a result of a nasty virus and resulting series of opportunistic infections -- and not missing the grid much....
The shipping industry may be slowing a little, but it's still been boom times for five years now in that business. Ships are making a $100,000 a day in profits, and oil rigs are being leased out for $600,000 a...
Apparently Adobe (nee Macromedia) is having a Y2J problem. Check the following from its site: During the month of June 2008, certain product trials that are launched for the first time (regardless of when they were installed) will function for...
Lots of chatter today about the arrival of free, realtime stock quotes on major websites. For example, Google, the Wall Street Journal and CNBC have all added realtime quotes to their services. That's nice. Given that world operates in realtime,...
