Archive for April, 2011
Coralrift Is a Ridiculously Simple and “Instant” Web Host
As we covered in our lessons on how to create a web site, getting your site online can take a little effort. Coralrift, on the other hand, lets you pick a name for your site, drag your site onto a drop area, and click a button to upload it. It’s basically instant web site deployment. [...]
Friends Don’t Let Friends Take Education Advice From Peter Thiel
My friends, my followers on Twitter, and people who’ve read my previous posts know that I have a very strong opinion about education: that it is absolutely necessary in order for you to build a foundation for success. Despite having appointments at five elite universities, I am not a proponent of elite education. Rather, my [...]
The PlayStation Portion Of E3 Starts… Here?
We’ve been asked by the people behind PlayStation to save the date. June 6, 5pm Pacific. Los Angeles. That’s when their big E3 press conference will happen. That’s when we’ll probably find out about the biggest and best gaming plans for the PS3 and NGP, at least for the next year. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft [...]
No Cliffhanger For Gears 3 – Marcus Fenix‘s Story To Be Finished, But The Best Is Yet To Come
Gears of War 3 is one of this Fall’s most anticipated titles, arriving at just the right time (September 20) in order to help [western hemisphere] students fail school at the beginning of the first semester, versus the typical holiday time frame. Relayed from CVG, Epic executive producer Rod Fergusson said that Gears 3 is [...]
Online Lures Local
After giving eMarketer a bit of a backhanded complement yesterday on the online marketing opportunity today they are getting all out kudos. Location based marketing has been of great interest to me for a while as evidenced by “The Mother of All Internet Wars” and ”The Local Nut” articles. Well today eMarketer came out with an [...]
REVIEW: Copping to It and Cop Appeal by Ava Meyers
Dear Ms. Meyers: Your two self published books were recommended to me as examples of how the new romance author is taking advantage of the self publishing system. My understanding is that these two books are selling quite well. Indeed, Copping to It and Cop Appeal average near 4 stars or more at Amazon. The [...]
Sizzling Book Club Pick: The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
It’s not so much sizzling in northern coastal Scotland in the winter, but this book is amazing for it’s warmth, the strength of the writing, and the story-within-a-story. As I announced in the Book Club Chat last week, our April Book Club pick is Susanna Kearsley’s The Winter Sea. Previously published in Canada as ‘Sophia’s [...]
Federal Overhaul to Immigration Courts
Federal officials are taking steps to overhaul the nation’s immigration courts — adding judges, improving training, and trying to reduce the influence of politics. But critics say these changes are too little and long overdue. The efforts follow a flurry of studies, congressional testimony, and calls to address the crush of cases, complaints about erratic [...]
What about Nativism?
Is nativism really mean? Is nativism really naïve? Is nativism the beginning of the end? An editorial last month in the New York Times entitled “The Anti-Arizonans” celebrates different expressions of opposition to legislative action taken in Arizona aimed at restricting illegal immigration. Such celebrations of righteous indignation have become fairly commonplace in much of [...]
Gas firms ‘don’t need help on carbon tax’
A CALL for liquefied natural gas to be exempted from a carbon tax has been undermined by evidence the industry would boom over the next decade even if it received no compensation, analysts say. Don Voelte, chief executive of LNG company Woodside Petroleum, said his industry should be excluded from a carbon price, in part [...]
The way to Begin Your Online Enterprise
You most likely do some online purchasing from time to time. But chances are you’ll spend hours upon hours searching for one of the best deals. There’s a solution. Some corporations have designed downloadable internet apps that enable you to get the best and lowest prices whereas shopping. All it’s a must to do is [...]
SEO’ing in a Social World
SEO is dead sang the “Social Evangelist”. Um Yah riiiiiiigt. SEO is as important than ever. Here is the reason. Social media is tied to Google, Bing and Yahoo. How? Bing serves results for Yahoo. Bing pulls much of their data from Facebook. In fact, it is believed that results are influenced by some of [...]
Dream Town is First to Offer Real Estate Deal through Groupon
Groupon is featuring a new real estate offer from Dream Town: For $25 you get $1,000 cash when you buy or sell a home in the next 12 months with Dream Town. This is the nation’s first-ever Groupon for real estate and it’s making big news. Every media outlet from the Chicago Tribune to WBBM [...]
Chart of the Day: Beating the house in Las Vegas
Interesting news on the Las Vegas housing market this week – sales reached a 5-year high according to Dataquick. Surprised? The positive signals have been building for the last 14 months: We noted the deceleration of Las Vegas’ price declines in January 2010. Towards the end of 2010, inventory started spiking causing downward price pressure [...]
Break Your Apartment Lease
It may not be easy to face reality at times but it comes in front of you and you have make decisions for a better future. This becomes particularly important when it deals with home and finance obligations such as apartment rent. You have to sign an apartment lease to reside in an apartment. It [...]
Conformation Bias, Again
Jeff Saut quoted a couple of investment luminaries this week including one I know personally. From Ken Fisher in 1989 was; Here’s the paradox: the odds are overwhelming I will end up richer by aiming for a good return rather than a brilliant return – and sleep better en route. And from Benjamin Graham; The [...]
Why It’s Time to Short the Yen
I recently switched my stance on the yen, going from bull to bear. In this post I’ll share my rationale for doing so. First, the fundamental reasons: 1. Japan has a debt problem — perhaps the largest sovereign debt problem in the world (depending on how one evaluates such problems). One of the main reasons [...]
New Immigration Article: Sorry Ma’am, Your Baby is an Alien: Outdated Immigration Rules and Assisted Reproductive Technology
Sorry Ma’am, Your Baby is an Alien: Outdated Immigration Rules and Assisted Reproductive Technology by Scott Titshaw, Mercer University School of Law. Abstract: The growing use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) and legal recognition of same-sex relationships are raising questions regarding the recognition of parent-child relationships. State and foreign family law have been wrestling with [...]
Illegal Immigration Profiteers
When employers exert their power and influence to safeguard their access to an unlimited supply of illegal alien labor, they put profits ahead of principle and sacrifice millions of American children to identity theft. These employers are like war profiteers who put profits ahead of the interests of their nation and its people. War profiteers [...]
Review: Maestro’s Butterfly by Rhonda Leigh Jones
Listening to the Maestro’s Butterfly is an experience that will leave you flushed and begging for more. You’re in luck too because there are two more books after this! Rebecca Rogers is a truly phenomenal narrator. Her character voices are a treat and she’s a real actress. Quivering sighs, harsh words, moans, groans, she does [...]
