Archive | April, 2007

A Follow-Up To The Counterfeit $20

It was really neat to read all of the interesting comments about my recent experience with getting a counterfeit $20 bill from Bank of America.

Updated Thoughts About Apple Stock

About two years ago, I wrote a few articles about why I was personally against buying shares of Apple. And in From The Mail Bag - Why I Won’t Buy Apple Stock, I talked about it in more detail.
If their market cap were $50 million, I would consider it. But, at $50 billion, [...]

Anatomy of a Digging

My post about how Bank of America Gave Me A Counterfeit $20 was on the front page of Digg yesterday.
Overall, it was a really neat and interesting experience. The amount of traffic we saw took down the server hard. I’ve read a few things about “The Digg Effect” and I thought it would [...]

Bank of America Gave Me A Counterfeit $20

I had four bucks left in my wallet last weekend. It was time to go to the ATM..
My usual routine is to withdraw $200 in cash from the ATM that way I don’t have to go back for a while. So I went to a nearby Bank of America ATM machine and made [...]

The Apprentice A Let Down

This week’s episode of The Apprentice was a departure from the way Donald Trump normally does things. On Sunday’s episode, the two teams of two each had two former candidates as “employees” that they brought back to work for them.
I think both groups did a pretty job on their task - which was to [...]

Doubleclick Acquision Makes GOOG A Buy

Google’s recently announced acquision of Doubleclick is all the talk in the blogosphere right now. Everyone has an opinion on it, of course, so here’s mine: Google is run by some very, very, VERY smart people. Their executive team is probably the brightest bunch of folks out there. I think they [...]