Posts from ‘February, 2008’

My car is starting to show “signs of aging” and I’m actively on the hunt for some new wheels.  I’ll certainly be getting something used so I don’t get zapped with massive depreciation in the first few years.  The link indicates that most cars depreciate 15-20% per year, I’ve heard even higher rates from other sources.  [...]

Slashdot  has a post today about a technology that is embedded in many printers that can actually identify when any given page was printed and, often, the serial number of the printer that printed it. 
According to the EFF’s website, the US government was able to convince “some color laser printer manufacturers to encode each page [...]

If logic prevails, Microsoft stock may be in for quite a rebound on Monday.  After announcing an offer to buy Yahoo! for 44.6 Billion on February 1st, Microsoft’s stock went into a steep decline.  Ending January 31st at $32.60/share, the stock closed yesterday at $28.56/share, a drop of roughly $4 or ~12%. 
Its clear that investors either [...]

This is the first of what I hope are a few posts to help people take control of their blog or website earnings to generate some interesting statistics about where their blog revenue may be in the future, metrics about where their earnings currently are, and information on how to track true success metrics on your blog [...]

I headed over to the International Monetary Fund website last night, trying to find out what the per capita income was for Afghanistan and ended up finding a list of per capita incomes for all the countries that participated in their data collection for 2007.   Afghanistan came in at $383 dollars per year.  The United States sits [...]

Well, I have an appointment set up with the Honda dealer again tomorrow.  Things could get ugly.  I have a Honda Civic that is just shy of 15 years old.  I’ve been in the ’shopping for a new car’ status for the last few years but just can’t bring myself to part with a car that [...]

Not a lot of time to post today, but I’ve read three articles in the last few weeks about how Marchex may be significantly undervalued based on their portfolio of nearly 200,000 domain names.  They have a huge portfolio of domains that they own and run advertising on and they also offer an ad platform [...]

Joel Stein over at the LA Times has an excellent post on his view of the fiscal stimulus package.  Here is the first paragraph and, trust me, its worth reading the rest.  He covers everything from Ron Paul’s goofy exasperation to Bebe clothing stores to telling Ben Bernanke that he is good looking to how [...]

Requirement #1 to get you through a cold, dark, wet Seattle winter?  Coffee.  Caffe Appassionatto is roasted locally and served in many of the fine Seattle cafe’s.  Looks like Amazon only has three packs, but three bags of coffee for $20 isn’t bad and it’ll be just enough to last you through a Seattle weekend.

Requirement #2 [...]