May 15
I finally decided to update the site to Wordpress 2.5.1. Nice upgrade. Of course nothing goes according to plan with these things. I setup my development server last night with the upgrade to make sure everything was good. This morning I started to upload the upgrade to the main server as I prepared for my bike ride in to work.
I was about half way to work when I realized I forgot about my upload! So if anyone noticed the site down this morning, then I apologize. I was able to get things all squared away shortly after I arrived at work.
May 14
My world revolves around technology. I am at my computer all day preparing budgets, planning, writing software code, responding to email, etc. I often listen to podcasts related to technology as well. Some of my favorites are DIGG Nation, TWIT, CrankyGeeks, and MacBreak Weekly. These guys have been touting a service called Twitter for the past year. It never made much sense to me so I didn’t bother looking at it. If John C. Dvorak didn’t see any use to it, then why would I?
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May 12
I ran across a great video today thanks to The Div Guy. The video is from Josh Peters at Morningstar DividendInvestor. He explains how dividend stocks generally outpace inflation. Furthermore, he offers up five dividend stock picks he feels are well positioned to clobber inflation. I found it interesting and perhaps you will too. I don’t usually embed videos but I made an exception in this case.
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May 05
Marsellus Wallace (Pulp Fiction) once said, “The night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting. That’s pride f*****g with you. F*** pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps.” Yahoo! rejected an offer by Microsoft a couple of months ago. The offer was a significant premium for Yahoo! shareholders. Today Microsoft withdrew the offer and Yahoo! shareholders are pissed. Microsoft had increased its offer to $33 a share, but Yahoo! wanted $37. Needless to say this is not the end of this story. Will Yahoo! be a victim of pride?
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Apr 28
The Oracle made a move today and we were the beneficiaries. I really want to believe that Warren Buffett is a honest, hard-working billionaire, but does anyone believe that to get to his position in life you can be honest? I wonder the more I follow him. Just a month or so ago he proclaimed that the stock market in the United States will not deliver the same historical returns and the recession would continue for some time. He likened the United States to a farm that keeps selling off its assets to pay bills. Yet here he is buying Wrigley. Makes you wonder doesn’t it?
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