Ken’s Sandbox

July 21, 2007

Google Earnings up 28%, stock drops 7%, WTF

Filed under: Stuff — ken.gregg @ 7:54 pm

In a typical case of investors living only for the short term, they dumped on Google’s stock after the company reported quarterly earnings were up only 28%. Here is the AP article.  I realize Google is an expensive stock. But this definitely falls under “what the f__k” in my book.

July 16, 2007

The best testimonial in real estate

Filed under: RWRE Member Notes — ken.gregg @ 8:11 am

I ran across this blog post this morning. I love “knock their socks off” customer service and since this was real estate related, I thought it would be worth sharing:

The best realtor in the East Bay, Bar none, an unsolicited testimonial.

July 11, 2007

Blog Comments

Filed under: Stuff — ken.gregg @ 4:31 pm

I have been following Marc Andreessen ’s blog recently, and in very good post about blogging, he announced that he would no longer be allowing comments on his blog. Given the prominence of his blog, I can appreciate the time it must take to moderate the comments. But it has caused some interesting discussion on the subject.

Another post I ran across mentioned that if you are going to allow comments you should have a moderation policy. The post mentioned the very simple moderation policy of Push Button Paradise. Consider it adopted.

I have had comments turned off on this blog for some time. I am going to begin leaving comments enabled. It may inspire me to find a better way to manage them.

July 6, 2007

Vista: Another reason to not go there

Filed under: RWRE Member Notes, Applications — ken.gregg @ 6:37 am

When I got my new notebook, I went out of my way to avoid Vista. I’m not quite able to go to Linux yet so XP was number one on my list of “features”. Since making that decision I have read reports that Microsoft Vista runs 15% slower than XP (a billion lines of code, what do you expect), Vista is no more secure than XP (ditto), and I just ran across this article about the information Vista sends back to Microsoft. It seems that M$ is collecting more information about Vista users than even I suspected. And I suspected a lot.

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