I know there’s a lot of anger over what was said about the Canadian military. I can understand the anger, and know why what they said is wrong, but another take may be, why bother with what they say? Who cares if some late night bozos spouted off? Why must we act so indignant? This [...]
Archive for March 2009
Furor over Fox news
March 24, 2009The real industrial index
March 11, 2009A colleague of mine, Rich Pell, completed a very interesting blog post on the an industrial index based on real industrial stocks. It’s doing slightly better than the Dow Jones Industrial index. See the post here
An idea whose time is coming
March 3, 2009An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885), ‘Histoire d’un crime,’ 1852 I saw this quote and really liked it. The first ”idea” I thought of when I read this is proportional representation. I’m hoping that this idea will have it’s time. I believe [...]
Are we alone?
March 3, 2009A new article on CNN talks about a newly released theory from astronomer Alan Boss that states there may be as many as 300 billion earth-like planets also in the Milky Way. here is a quote from an article on CNN.com There may be 100 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way, or one for every sun-type [...]
Company hibernation in this winter of a recession.
March 3, 2009My working career is currently over the 11 year mark. I have seen some small boom and busts, but definitely have not experienced a downturn like this one is (and will continue to be). My brief experience with a small recession was the high tech down turn of 2001. Some smaller companies closed down, and some larger companies [...]
