Monthly Archives: October 2009

Worried about RFID? How do you feel about your fruit having laser etchings?

The U.K. and oil money… this totally off the wall story from Ghana http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=169849 talks about the connections between British interest, Saudi Arabia and large bribes…. Makes the explanation of the Lockerbee bomber release a bit more clear. Could Saudi … Continue reading →

Goldman is holding CIT by the…debentures… and squeezing. WSJ and Business Week are reporting that Goldman is in “negoiations” with CIT over the $1 billion “reward” Goldman would get if CIT files for bankruptcy http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9B574580.htm

Flash coming to the iPhone, kind of… http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/iphone-flash Adobe is making a development kit available that lets people convert a flash application to a iPhone app – preventing a wild west hole where people could develop apps that bypass Apple’s … Continue reading →

SRGuide is #3 result in Google for “streaming” :) If you go to the “Free Streaming” page on Rush Limbaugh’s web site, it gives you a link to a Premiere web page that gets a 404 error. http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/menu/free_streaming_ii.guest.html Here’s one … Continue reading →

Glenn Beck Book tour… Glenn mentioned it briefly on his show, no idea if he did any another promotion. 1,000 people were waiting in line in North Haven (CT) for him to show up at 8 PM (He didn’t show … Continue reading →

Goldman Sachs makes $1 billion if CIT fails – sweet! http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ahFzCSZaqbTs

Boring!… John Batchelor has had 3 guests in a row now who are authors of history books about the early 1900s… My John Batchelor fandom is waning…

Ice Hockey season is here, for those of you who love sports preemptions. Fortunately, hockey on radio doesn’t make much sense, so few stations carry it.

Do hurricanes still “prove” global warming? Or is it the lack of hurricanes that proves climate change?

Random Station – a subtle change if you use this to do testing when you get bored – if you’re testing a small genre (like All News), it won’t offer a station that has been tested in the last 2 … Continue reading →

CIT – prices of their bonds on Friday (and the Credit Default Swaps that protect the buyers) strongly suggest that Chapter 11 is in CIT’s short term future. Bonds that mature in November are at $.73 on the dollar Bloomberg … Continue reading →

Steve Burke – Forbes has a profile online. Mr. Burke is the president of Comcast and originally worked for Disney and then ABC after ABC was bought by Disney (his father Dan Burke was CEO of ABC for 22 years). … Continue reading →

If Jazz won’t work in Detroit, where will it? Another Smooth Jazz station bites the dust – WVMV in Detroit is moving on…. the jazz will remain on the HD2 channel and the web site. The PPM kills another station … Continue reading →

Letterman doesn’t make sense – he’s only been married since March of this year (2009) – his son was born in 2003 to his current wife… other than the employer/emplyee aspect, there is nothing particularly worthy of an extortion attempt … Continue reading →