December 2008
13 posts
Christmas Travels
I’ve been crazy out of touch lately, but it’s not like I’ve been sitting on my butt! Katherine and I left London on the Eurostar, through the channel tunnel (I HATE the word chunnel) to Brussels. We then drove from the Brussels train station through Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany to Cologne. From Cologne it was off to Frankfurt to spend a few days with Giancarlo and Emily...
Nerd Alert
Just wrote a Drupal module that queries an LDAP database and returns results formatted for use with a jQuery autocomplete plugin. Nerdy goodness.
What Is My IP?
Sometimes I need to use my current IP address for web development. I don’t always keep tabs on what my IP is and it’s a bit of a pain to lookit up in the system preferences or command line. So I use whatismyip.com. But I never remember whether it’s whatismyip.com or whatsmyip.com. I almost ALWAYS go to whatsmyip.com first, which is just a parked domain with stupid ads. So...
Peter Schiff
This is old news, but still pretty awesome. A couple YEARS ago Peter Schiff, economist / financial dude, started talking about a future recession fueled by an over-leveraged economy. He used terms that seemed alien a year ago but all too familiar now: toxic debt, credit crunch, etc.
[Video from this post was supposed to be here but Tumblr is…touched.]
Now even a broken clock is wrong...
The Week Trumps the Weekend
Why? Because on Saturdays and Sundays Katherine plans all sorts of shopping excursions, cleaning regiments and open air market visits. Monday 9a can’t come fast enough.
Yes, I’m hiding while writing this.
My Podcast Cup Runeth Over
I’m literally running out of time in the day to listen to all the podcasts I subscribe to.
Bloomberg On the Economy BusinessWeek — Cover Stories 15-30m Weekly BusinessWeek — Global Outlook 10-15m Weekly BusinessWeek — Market Reports ~2m 2-3x Daily BusinessWeek — The Welch Way ~8m Weekly CNN Marketplace Update 2m 2x Daily Cranky Geeks 30m Weekly The Economist 10-30m...
Auto Industry Going Out of Business?
BIG FUCKING DEAL!
