Yesterday, I stayed home sick. I had the flu, or a cold, and didn’t feel like my coming into work would have been the best thing for either myself or the people there that might catch what I have.
The funny thing is that I spent quite a bit of the day with a nagging thought [...]

Sunday, the federal government signed the first paperwork to start disbursing part of the $700 Billion from the recent Wall Street Bailout bill.  This is the first ‘handout’ to the banking system, designed to stabilize the banks, and by extension the credit markets and larger economic markets.
The recapitalization of the banks should ‘hopefully’ alleviate the [...]

Times are tough, stocks are going down like the Titanic, and people are panicking. You can smell the fear in the air like a malignant cologne. Many huge companies’ stock is valued at a fraction of what it would normally sell for and the Price/Earnings Ratio (P/E) is enough to make a hardened stock broker [...]

In a concerted effort to blatantly beg for more subscribers, I’m publishing a short little How-To for using RSS.
RSS Intro:
What is RSS?
RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
Why RSS? Benefits [...]

Driving to work today, I sighted something I hadn’t seen in quite a while. The price of gas at one of the local gas stations had reached $2.33 a gallon. Living in the midwest, we have some lower gas prices than other locations, but this was still quite a drop from the $4.00+ price tag [...]