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Please vote for my panel at SXSW DON’T PANIC – The Geek’s Guide to the Next Big Crisis
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A little more than four years ago I wrote my first blog post. It was about the need for a form of Emergency RSS. We can share celebrity gossip headlines through feed readers faster than we [...]
From our recent trip to Seattle – video of the Seattle Monorail. Like a rollercoaster, but slower.
From the New York Times
Company Settles Case of Reviews It Faked
Lifestyle Lift, a cosmetic surgery company, has reached a settlement with the State of New York over its attempts to fake positive consumer reviews on the Web, the New York attorney general’s office said Tuesday.
The company had ordered employees to pretend they were satisfied [...]
Recent post on the Chron: The roaming chainsaw gangs of Houston.
Hurricanes bring about unexpected responses in us humans. It’s like the first time you see your dog or cat catch a squirrel and they go all primal on it. And you are looking at your little FeFe thinking “WHERE the $#(@ did they learn how [...]
The much hyped, but this IS James Cameron we are talking about, movie Avatar. Completely looking forward to this one!
While I have the privilege of speaking to groups throughout the US on a somewhat regular basis, it seems like I speak out of town more than in town! One of those ironies of being a speaker. While particularly honored to speak to the Association of Fundraising Professionals Houston Chapter, it is even better that [...]
New post up on Chron’s list blog: The Unnecessary Apologist
The proprietors weren’t the in-your-face preachy kind of folks. Typically quiet, he became a loud fellow who would amble up to the register for the lunch rush like he was holding court. A different joke for each of the regulars….
The deli was a small family-owned shop [...]
The way I see it he said
You just can’t win it
Everybody’s in it for their own gain
You can’t please ‘em all
There’s always somebody calling you down
I do my best
And I do good business
There’s a lot of people asking for my time
They’re trying to get ahead
They’re trying to be a good friend of mine
I was a [...]
Ran into this 2004 economics paper referenced by Wayne Marr on twitter. Several quotes that jumped out at me for a variety of reasons. All economics links added by me.
“The foundation blocks of standard finance were now in place, supporting one another. Investors are rational, prices are efficient, risk is measured by beta and investors [...]
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