Some economists are estimating the final government bailout number to be around 3 trillion dollars when all is said and done, with stop reserves going out to 7 trillion. According to census information, the total U.S. population is around 300 million. So, if for some reason the government decided to give the taxpayers back their [...]
Category Archives: Off the Wall
Mainstreet Bailout
October 22, 2008 – 6:57 am
I’ve come up with a plan to help main street while helping wall street at the same time. No one wants to give anyone (mainstreet or wallstreet) a complete get out of jail free card, but the necessary evil is that something must be done, or we must struggle through an enormous recession and downturn [...]
Stress Breakdowns
September 12, 2008 – 12:34 pm
It’s been my experience lately that there’s two main circumstances in which developers can inccurr a significant amount of unhealthy work-related stress:
Nothing to do. This doesn’t sound stressful, but when you go to work and don’t have anything to do it is extremely unfullfilling. Not to mention the temptation to pull up inappropriate material from [...]
Firefox 3 RC2 Available
June 5, 2008 – 8:04 am
Firefox version 3, Release Candidate 2 is now available for download! The immediate improvement I noticed: speed. Version 3 appears to start up a bit faster, load pages faster, and handle javascript-laden pages faster. Also nice to see were the numerous tasteful UI enhancements. Firefox has always had a simple UI before, and I’m glad [...]
Sweet Relief
January 17, 2008 – 10:57 am
I am not a smoker, but I can identify with those who are… I would imagine lighting up your first cigarette of the day would be a lot like having your first triple ventii soy chai latte (or whatever the case may be). It’s a bad habit, yes, but for many it is almost impossible [...]
SanDisk 4GB Cruzer Freedom USB Flash Drive
December 27, 2007 – 2:03 pm
I was the blessed recipient of two of these amazing flash drives from SanDisk for Christmas. I just thought I’d give a quick review in case anyone out there is thinking of purchasing this little drive. Mine were purchased from Amazon, and came out to only about $60 a piece.
The drive comes with [...]