One motivation for the exercise last week in reviewing 10-Q/Ks was to come up with some forecasts on the marketplace. We also use an array of industry analysts who are ostensibly better connected and do this stuff all day, but the numbers I’ve seen are all over the place. Consider the following chart:
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During the last couple of weeks it’s been icky weather — dark, cold, rainy. I’ve been indoors, looking at a several companies’ financial filings, connecting the pro-forma dots in an attempt to understand the companies’ fundamentals and make a judgement on whether I think they will remain viable concerns. The job is much easier with
Sometime Tuesday, my laptop crashed. I don’t know exactly what happened, except when I woke up, the machine had powered itself off and would not get past its POST. I power-cycled the machine several times, expecting different results. No, I’m not crazy; computing is just that nondeterministic. I undocked the laptop and tried again. This
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I’ve had an account with monster.com since 1996. Basically forever. From 1996-1999, they were a great source for job hunting. Real companies posted actual jobs. If you applied, and were reasonably qualified, a human being often responded with a genuine personalized email. (When the response was unfavorable, you’d have what’s known as a “flying hatchet”
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“Natalie can still get under my skin. Ever since the accident, she’s been employing her most potent seductive powers. I’ve managed to avoid her advances. Mostly. Today she pushed me too far. I kicked her out“ (gag.) I was watching a friend surf. She doesn’t have my zealous, guerilla attitude towards blocking advertisements, so this
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The NaNoWriMo participant profile has a slot where one can add the working title of his tome. I originally had Captain Sarcastic Explains the Universe, but am now leaning towards the Dude, We’re Going to Spatula City! byline above because it suggests subduction of the “rabid weasels” (to use Woodstock’s excellent analogy) and eventual, if
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I hope that, by 2006, I’ll have secured my place in innovation history, along side the Method of concealing partial baldness. Peabody, set the Way-back machine for December, 2002. The first round of my product was scheduled for launch in March. It was neat, but what I was really excited about was the vision, the
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Referer link spamming is when someone from Site A fakes out web servers on Site B into thinking someone was referred from Site A. The hope is that Site B is running one of those dynamic visitors lists and, by doing so, Site A appears on Site B’s list when Google’s indexing spider visits. Google
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