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Posts from ‘April, 2008’

Congratulations Starbucks, now your coffee tastes like McDonalds’

A few weeks back, Starbucks launched their new Pike Place Roast coffee. They advertise it as “Smooth and Bold, made every 30 minutes, all day, every day, just for you“.
Here in Seattle, the Starbucks center of the universe, they’ve been promoting it very heavily. Without coming out and saying it, it seems pretty [...]

Taser has my attention again

My not-so-diversified portfolio has received a bit of a beating lately.  Last week I closed my positions in Intel and sold off part of my Marchex position (after a nice 34% run up in 6 weeks) so I’m sitting on a bit of cash.
I hadn’t intended on buying anything right away.  Having just shy of [...]