Archive for November, 2008

A Little Perspective On the Bailout

Barry Ritholtz sez,
In doing the research for the “Bailout Nation” book, I needed a way to put the dollar amounts into proper historical perspective.If we add in the Citi bailout, the total cost now exceeds $4.6165 trillion dollars.
People have a hard time conceptualizing very large numbers, so let’s give this some context. The current Credit [...]

Book Meme

Hopping on a book meme:
Bear in mind that directories and files that anybody can write to are dangerous. – PHP and MYSQL Web Development
God, I’m kind of a geek. That was the closest book, but in my defense I am at work.

Grab the nearest book.
Open it to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of [...]

My Favorite Picture From the Election

Thanks to Peter from “this isn’t happiness” for the hook up.

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