Miscellaneous Ramblings

Wall Street analysts have been calling for Yahoo to outsource its search-advertising business to Google, which makes more money for each ad it sells than Yahoo.

If you just endure the game for the ads watch them now and do something else Sunday.

We hope that you and your Board share our enthusiasm, and we look forward to a prompt and favorable reply.

The proposal would allow health inspectors to yank the permit from any restaurant that "repeatedly" feeds extremely overweight customers.

Ever wonder what happens when we toss old cell phones in the trash? "There is enough gold in 200 cell phones to make a gold ring."

Caution…. If you start reading these, you will lose a week or two…

It’s an offer the University of Colorado couldn’t flush away. MIT – that could have been your money!

"We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well."

Nothing works the way it should.

Now consider an example from San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system. In an attempt to run more trains per hour, Bart upgraded its hardware, wrote new software and redid its computer system.

During the first few days after switching to a state-of-the-art system, if a train was behind schedule, it would run right past the station. That is exactly how they programmed their computer.