http://blog.quay.net This is my blog, can't you tell? Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:34:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just came across this essay in an article on Salon.com. It's a very interesting essay by John Maynard Keynes called The End of Laissez-Faire and in my view it is a must read. Anybody who is not familiar with Keynesian Economics and how it fundamentally differs from ... http://blog.quay.net/2008/03/keynes-the-end-of-laissez-faire/ The BBC is reporting that JPMorgan is not only bailing Bear Stearns out using money from the New York Federal Reserve, but before the markets even open on Monday, they're poised to buy Bear Stearns for $2/share. On Thursday Bear Stearns closed at $57/share. This is, by any ... http://blog.quay.net/2008/03/jpmorgan-to-buy-bear-stearns/ I've been using Pobox's mail forwarding service for a couple of days in an attempt to wrestle my e-mail situation to the ground. The basic idea is that I'm going to eventually only publish my pobox.com address as a primary mail address and other than personal contacts I will ... http://blog.quay.net/2008/03/migrating-to-poboxcom/ Last night I made some changes to my PC at home and in the process I blew up all my photos for the past 7 years or so. That sucks. I have some backups on DVD and I can eventually track them down. The part that's doubly ... http://blog.quay.net/2008/02/backups-and-why-you-should-never-listen-to-me/ I just came across the current Canadian national debt numbers on the StatsCan website. It's a bit higher than I thought, roughly C$619 billion. According to the chart this is balanced against C$111 billion of assets, but I'm unclear what that actually represents. I'm not sure if ... http://blog.quay.net/2008/02/canadian-national-debt/ I just got home from the late show of There Will Be Blood and I must say I don't think I enjoyed the movie. In fact it's the first movie I've seen since The Passion of The Christ that I didn't really feel good about sitting through. Don't ... http://blog.quay.net/2008/02/there-will-be-blood/ There's an interesting read on MS's hostile takeover attempt on Y! over on Salon.com. I'd characterize what Microsoft is up to as more of a race not to be last rather than a move against Google of any real import, but it is to some degree based on my ... http://blog.quay.net/2008/02/saloncom-writeup-of-microsofts-move-on-yahoo/ I guess it's somewhat comforting to know that Bono isn't the only figure from U2 who has decided to devote his life to being a caricature of a twit. While I have some sympathy with the fact that there is a legitimate case that part of the digital music ... http://blog.quay.net/2008/01/u2-manager-mcguinness-makes-total-ass-of-himself/ According to the BBC, California is starting a programme to sell medical pot using vending machines! Not something I thought I'd ever see. I still find cigarette vending machines strange. The rules are a bit draconian, you need fingerprints, photos and there is a security guard, but still it's ... http://blog.quay.net/2008/01/reefer-vending-machines/ Thought I'd point out that I just added a link to MIT World. It's an excellent site with quite a bit of video content and excellent lectures from various MIT courses and campus events. http://blog.quay.net/2008/01/mit-world/