Paul Graham on 'Why TV Lost' : "This was the most powerful force of all.  This was what made everyone want computers. Nerds got computers because they liked them. Then gamers got them to play games on. But it was connecting to other people that got everyone else: that's what m...

As in previous recessions, the current economic downturn is boosting enrollment at community colleges and vocational schools, as classrooms swell with workers from hard-hit industries looking to change careers. The…...

  The following was written by Dick Williams. “…If you need work contact them and take the short simple test and you may get some work…� Short yes, 28 questions. Not entirely simple. I think the test was considerably harder this time vs the one I took in 1999.  Hard to believe I've been tr...

Bob Worrall, Sun’s CIO wrote an article for Forbes called “Sun Microsystems’ IT Tips.” Here’s an excerpt about datacenter power reduction: Thinking Ecologically, Thinking Economically. Since the power consumption of data centers doubled between 2000 and 2005, it’s...

Someone took the time to write a short story of what happens to the entrepreneur when bureaucrats get involved.  When you destroy the gain for the entrepreneur to take risk, by definition: the entrepreneur will not take risk.  If the entrepreneur doesn't take risk, by definition: the econo...

Here is a fascinating interview and rant by Rick Santelli.  Rick Santelli has had enough of subsidizing behavior that we wouldn't tolerate in our own children.  We don't boost up our children's grades when they fail to perform or lower the bar.  Instead, we boost up the disciplin...

  God, I am good.  I was correct.  President Obama  has not even unveiled his home foreclosure plan today and…     “…But there could be fierce resistance among Republicans and some conservative Democrats on Capitol Hill. Already, top Republicans want several questions answered, an early ...

  The new $75 billion plan for the housing problem sounds very good to me.  My gut feeling is that the bankers and the loan people are going to be the problem.   The other thing I think is that people that did not get in this mess by making a bad loan and those not hurting yet are going to object...

  The following is from Yahoo News. �For decades, Las Vegas, ripe with new construction and economic development, burgeoned into a shimmering urban carnival. Detroit, once the fulcrum of American industry, sagged and rusted under its own weight. Las Vegas edged Detroit for the title of America's ...

“WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina took umbrage at my writing that his approach to the economic crisis is to do nothing. I'll deal with his "ideas" in a moment, but first let me make a modest proposal: If Republican politicians are so deeply opposed to President Obama's econo...