"Buy and Hold" is what we imagine if "for the duration" applies to investing. TV ads for brokerages and brain dead media writers are now advising people not to panic just because their accounts are down 50% from December 31, 2007. It "Bogles" the mind. "Stay the co...

I’ve often said it, and I’ll say it again. The real value of social media lies in the ability for anyone to interact over anything. It is the interaction that creates the value. Smart people like Tim O’Reilly will tell you that web 2.0 is about the web becoming a platform. That dat...

A friend and former co-worker I’ve mostly lost touch with indicated recently that she’s a fan of Sonlight Curriculum, a Christian homeschool curriculum. I know her faith has become more important to her since I knew her (although she’s Catholic, which I wouldn’t expect to nec...

... Chuck Todd of MSNBC Gives the Delegate Math for Novembe (1); Church (2); Church Fight (1); Church Leaders (1); Church of God in Christ (1); church security (1); Church Ushers (1); Cindy McCain (4); cindy mccain's half sister (1) ......

The Book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell The Review I came across this book following recommendations by Jason Yip and Steven 'Doc' List on Twitter. I've previously read The Tipping Point and Blink and I like his easy going style so it was a no brainer that I was going to read this one. I found that th...

While scrolling through my Bugtraq mail, I came across this tongue-in-cheek mail about the threats of 2009. I hope he doesn't mind me posting it verbatim here, but I thought it was too nice to pass on. To be clear: I didn't write it, Pete Herzog from ISECOM did. Here goes: Top 5-ish Threats to Watch...

Grocery hell is...being a dairy manager at an Albertsons who makes 8.65 an hour, only gets 29 hours a week, and pays 66 dollars in union dues each month. (If you do the math, that comes out to about 8.08 an hour, 1 cent above the washington state minimum wage) and for reasons far more aggravating an...

One of the great things about not having children is that you can make comments on the way other people raise theirs with basically no comeuppance. One of the slightly disturbing things about blogging on personal finance is that because most personal finance bloggers are American, even as a British ...

I just realized that I never blogged about probably one of the best slash awkward dates I've ever had. It was two years ago and it was my second date with this guy. At the publication of this blog I cannot recall his name, but I do remember specifically that he looked like Kevin Youk...

I missed one new blog Foreign Policy is adding to its roster: The Call, by the Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer. So is running a successful scam, little more than a left-of-center version of Stratfor, now the only requirement for being taken seriously? Bremmer, recall, is the author of The J Curve:...