Monthly Archives: December 2009

NY’s Off Track Betting (OTB) has filed for bankruptcy – joining a growing list of casinos in financial trouble. If you view gambling as a self-destructive behavior, it’s a little bit of a silver lining to the problems with the … Continue reading →

Thom Hartmann’s 3rd hour will be on cable TV now. That could be fun.

Lutz to get new GM role – GM has a 9 AM company wide conference. Bob Lutz being named Ceo is the obvious implication. As a former Navy pilot, he understands taking orders from the commander in chief. Lutz has … Continue reading →

“Kill Bin Laden” – you may have seen the picture of the cadet reading the book during the 4 hour wait for the President to show up at West Point. (It’s on Drudge) The book is written by the senior … Continue reading →

Goldman Sachs says gold is going to $1350 – which means either Goldman is in the process of dumping all their gold or are holding a lot of gold and wanting the price to go higher. Gold dropped $14/oz today. … Continue reading →

Boy is my face red – I hate when I step on my own humo[u]r. The picture of the East German car is a Trabant – the Lada was the legendary Russian car of the same era. One person pointed … Continue reading →

Google’s DNS service – unless you’re a techno-geek, you probably won’t care – but Google is now offering a public DNS resolver. It’s address is 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (Google must have friends in high places) If you find you get … Continue reading →

Washington Times cuts staff 40% or more – WorldNet Daily’s inside sources were accurate. The Washington Times notified its workers today that 40% or more of them will be unemployed in 60 days. The paper will continue to print a … Continue reading →

The tax that won’t die – the house voted today to not let the estate tax expire in 2010 as was intended in 2001. That law had a 1 year window before it reverted to the prior much higher tax. … Continue reading →

Gold over $1220/oz… Dollar/EU over $1.51… You can only ignore gravity for a short while

Who is Mandy Connell? She is showing up in the top gainers in the stats – she’s the local morning person on WINK in Florida. Glenn Beck comes on after her show and is a popular station to listen to … Continue reading →

Changes at Radio America – Tom Taylor reports the departure of their programming guy – Radio America is the syndicator of Roger Hedgecock, G Gordon Liddy, Doug Stephan, Steve Gill and a few others – not exactly the major league … Continue reading →

Government Motors is in deep trouble – part of my computer career has been working in the car industry (GM, Chrysler). The government appointed CEO of GM was fired the day before he was to appear as the keynote speaker … Continue reading →

Where SRG visitors come from… 50% – doing a Google Search (U.S.) 35% – Bookmarks or other untrackable sources 5% – Bing 3% – Yahoo 7% – Other (non-US Google, AOL, dogpile, Free Republic, etc…)

Gmail’s interface is bloated, too…. I”m using an old laptop (256 MB, Windows XP)… IE was constantly zooming up from 15 MB of memory usage to 160 MB (at which point the laptop becomes useless)…. switching Gmail to “Basic HTML” … Continue reading →