Were chief executives at financial firms caught in "a financial tsunami" beyond their control, or are they partly responsible for what happened?: A Tsunami of Excuses, by William Cohan, Commentary, NY Times: It's been a year since Bear Stearns collapsed, kicking off Wall Street’s mel...

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I am on AIM/MSN/ICQ/YIM a lot. Before, I used multi protocol IM clients that allowed me to connect all that once but one of my quirks was that I wanted chat logs saved. Problem is, my hard drives tend to crash and I always forget to backup that folder. Enter Meebo. Meebo is a web based multi protoco...

In a recent post to a blog, a writer, Guy Creese, writes that the key to saving money in IT is ‘granularity’. In short- he suggests that the IT cost-saving key is to figure out what the basic use experiences are for people and match them to the cheapest software that suits those needs. I respect...

Snydeq writes "For the past several months, Microsoft has engaged in an far-reaching public mea culpa about Vista, holding a series of press interviews to explain how the company's Vista mistakes changed the evolvement process of Windows 7. Chief among these changes was the purposefulness to 'define...

Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE As the healthcare debate heats up the meaning of consumer driven healthcare (CDHC) needs repeating. The true meaning of CDHC has been bastardized by the healthcare insurance industry as represented by Health Savings Accounts (HSA). The healthcare......

Here is a good article that sums up my perspective on Christianity, especially the bolded paragraph. There is no question n my mind that evolution has provided a sort of boobytrap in that it causes us to impute intentionality to all sorts of things that don’t necessarily have it, but that̵...

Hey all again I'm wondering about building a hacked Mac OS X computer in the future some time. What kinda hardware do I need. Is there anything I should consider. Also is it hard to do. And is it worth it. if you guys could give me some tips and help on what needs to be done that would be great. I w...

The Los Angeles Times carried a story yesterday about a couple here in Chicago who have chosen to effectively practice Trinity United Church of Christ's controversial Black Values System. The story doesn't mention whether the couple attends where the Obamas......

Anyone who reads this blog knows that I have little patience for attempting to run churches by business principles. That’s been weighed in the scale and found wanting every time it’s been attempted. Last evening, as I was prepping for an interview I was to conduct with a supply chain exp...