I’m Reading…You won’t see a lot of posts from me this week. My wife Carolyn & I are expecting our second son, and induction is scheduled for tomorrow. As a result, I’m expecting the next week to be a blur. As with our first son, I will likely have a Baby blog up so that family [...]
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Instead of writing a blog post on this topic, I decided to use the new eBay Reviews & Guides feature to write a new “eBay Guide” on the topic of the US State Quarter Program: Collecting State Quarters: Which Will Gain in Value? Read it and let me know what you think. If you like [...]
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Every year, people seem to have trouble figuring out what gifts I might want for the holidays or for my birthday. This year, it seems simple enough. AppleInsider | Ripe in Cupertino: an Apple with 8 cores I really can’t say what I might need an 8-core Xeon Mac Pro for anymore. When I was [...]
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Nice post from Chad Alderson today about features he likes in Firefox 2.0. Firefox 2 Owns I’ve already posted about my favorite unsung feature in Firefox 2 – the ability to automatically recover all of your tabs in the case the computer or Firefox exits unexpectedly. It single-handedly saved me over 45 minutes of work [...]
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Actually, it went live about a week ago. What happened today, however, is that Scott Kleper, one of the co-founders, added a blog post about SpotDJ and some of the insights from launching the product. SpotDJ Makes iTunes Better Not being a big music lover myself, it’s hard for me to completely see the opportunity [...]
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A big thank you to one of the great product managers at eBay, Rebecca Nathenson, for forwarding me this German study on eBay economics. (I would link to her blog, but she is hiding it from me…) The Effect of Reputation on Selling Prices in Auctions (PDF) by Oliver Gürtler & Christian Grund As I [...]
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For some reason, I’ve been posting a lot about video games lately. I’m not sure why, since with all the commotion at home, it has been literally months since I’ve been able to play anything. After all, I’ve already sold my Gamecube & PS2 in anticipation of getting the next-generation machines in 2007. Still, it [...]
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Thought I’d give a quick shout out to another eBay-er who has a far more sophisticated and long-standing blog than myself. Rogelio Choy Ro spent a number of years managing market development for eBay’s developer program. He now manages the Parts & Accessories business for eBay Motors, another one of eBay’s great tailored shopping experiences. [...]
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This is another personal finance blog that I’ve started reading. It was references on My Open Wallet. I found it through this recent post on calculating the benefit from renting out an old property instead of selling it: The Real Return on My Rental Property Here is the link to the blog itself: 2Million – [...]
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I found this posting of the South Park episode 1008, Make Love, Not Warcraft today on Tony Chor’s blog. Make Love, Not Warcraft If you hate South Park, don’t bother clicking. There is nothing so redeeming about this episode to change your mind. But, if you are a fan of online gaming, you might just [...]
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Any fan of Star Trek knows all about “cloaking” technology. Well, we’re one step closer as of yesterday. LiveScience.com – Scientists Create Cloak of Partial Invisibility Interestingly, while groundbreaking, the basic concept for cloaking has been worked out quite well in the science fiction community. This experiment seems to confirm the basic approach: Bend light [...]
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Like most tech geeks, I’m excited about the new wave of video game consoles coming out this year. Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii. You name it, I want it. This despite the fact that with work & a family I rarely have time to play video games anymore. I came across a PS3 article [...]
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Just a quick article that I had to post. The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Heaviest known element created Ever since I learned about basic chemistry, I’ve had an unnatural affection for the periodic table. What an amazingly elegant and simple roadmap to understanding the composition of matter. I’m not sure what we’re learning at [...]
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense, Scribner’s, 1905, page 284 – George Santayana “The future success of Apple, Dell and Intel lies with a licensing deal between Steve Jobs’ company and the PC maker according to analyst Gartner,” Andrew Donoghue reports for ZDNet [...]
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Big news this week. The Dow has closed over 12,000. Whoopee. Sometimes, I am amazed at how incredibly stable certain staples of culture can be, even in the face of overwhelming logic & reason. One example of this is the continued fascination that people have with the Dow Industrials index. This group of 30 stocks [...]
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