Sunset
ByDerek
A few months ago, nobody would have expected the New York Times to evict him from their candidate tracker. He was the mayor of what city again?
I’ve added a category to the navigation on the right called “Interesting Reading.” It’s shaping up to be a collection of websites and blogs that I read on a regular basis and find interesting. Don’t get the wrong impression, though. Just because I put a link up to a site doesn’t mean that I agree…
Happy birthday shoutout to one of our best friends, “John of Rochester”! Hope it’s a good one. We owe ya a Duff’s run. 🙂
A couple Darwin Awards came up that Buffalo’s scavengers should take notice of. First, Steel is Gold: Steel is valuable, especially the high grade alloy used in steel cable. Scrap metal dealers do not ask questions. They pay in cash. And a good supply of cables can be found in elevator shafts. This particular goldmine…
“Lotus – the final frontier. These are the days of Lotusphere. It’s continuing mission – to seek out new connections and new technologies; to boldly go where no company has gone before.” – Patrick Stewart, Lotusphere 2004 Opening General Session It’s Lotusphere week, and this year’s keynote speaker did not hail from the Star Trek…
Good column over at Bloomberg.com from Peter J. Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. — The subprime and other junk mortgages that Fannie and Freddie bought — and the market in these mortgages that their buying spawned — are the underlying cause of the financial crisis. These…