http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/ / CC BY-SA 2.0 Sitting in traffic yesterday, an armored Dunbar truck drove by in the other lane – not unlike the one in the photo above. All I know about armored trucks is that carry cash. Everything I know about cash is that it’s going digital (debit cards / automated deposits & withdrawals, …
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New$$
I grabbed a coffee with Matt Thompson last week to catch up. Since then – something he said about the challenges of financing news organizations kept rolling through my head. I’m paraphrasing: ‘pick the website of a major news organization – look at the headlines and stories – which ones will you pay for?’ That’s …
Prediction: Dow 12k By End of Year
The Dow hit a 13-month high today closing at 10,226.94. A 200+ point rally today. While I’m still concerned about the 100+ point fluctuations in Dow’s daily closings, I’m confident we’ll close 2009 by recovering the ground lost in October 2008. That’s 1800 points in 7 weeks, ~30 trading days, an average of 60 points …
2010: The Great Restart
I could stare at this image all day. Continually riding its roller coaster in my head – watching geo-political events, holidays, elections, and family gatherings, all unfold. Whether we call it the Great Recession or the Great Nominal Spending Crash1 – I don’t think we’ve seen the interesting part yet. I predict a dramatic recovery …
Garrick’s Quick on the UpTake, 950AM Thurs 5:20pm
Every Thursday on Mike McIntee’s Quick on the UpTake program on AM 950 – I’ll be talking about the week’s crazy technologies for a quick 10 minutes. If you’re not near the AM dial, it’ll be available at TheUptake.org’s ‘Quick on the Uptake’ site.
Fitness Crossroad Group Fitness Calendar for iCal & Google Calendar
I rejoined the Fitness Crossroad, the neighborhood gym about a month ago and have yet to make it a regular part of my schedule. In hopes of more quickly getting in a comfortable rhythm1 I’ve ported their Group Fitness Schedule PDF into a subscribe-able calendar (for iCal or Google Calendar). If you’re in the area …
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Sphinx Config Problem on OS X Leopard 10.5.8
I bumped into a very strange bug trying to compile Sphinx on OS X Leopard today. After running ./configure for Sphinx 0.9.8-rc2, things looked good until: configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs. . Then nothing. Now, I’m positive that my computer is advanced enough to run C compile programs. So I peaked into the …
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My Bread (Year 2)
Over the weekend, I tried out a new bread book – My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method, by Jim Lahey. Lahey’s basic recipe is very similar to the basic Artisan Bread 5 Minutes a Day recipe in I’ve been working with for a year now. The biggest difference is the cooking method – in …
Verizon Droid Hands-On Review
The Verizon / Motorola / Google Droid, released later this week, is a solid, tactilely satisfying handset. I suspect it’ll be Motorola’s most well-received handset since the RAZR. Verizon’s marketing is correct – the Droid is the first real peer to the iPhone. More importantly – the Droid is the first significant competitor to the …
I Unpleasantly Review Mad Men
The older I get, the lower my tolerance for fictional stories about people disliking themselves and those around them. I’m not a fan of AMC’s Mad Men, I concur with Kevin Fenton’s assessment: “With the exception of a few marginal characters who get to show human complexity as a sort of consolation prize for not …