Weekly News Roundup – Week ending June 17, 2007
Summary of odd news items for the week ending June 17, 2007.
Read moreEconomy
Stories related to the economy and economic conditions.
The $54M Pants and Other News of The Week Ending June 5, 2007
This is a wrap of smaller news items for the week ending June 10, 2007.
Read moreD.C. Madame, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, One Smart Cookie
This is gonna be a lot of fun to watch. Pamela Martin says she wasn’t a pimp, but ran a legitimate and legal escort service. The government, it appears, has not gone after a single one of her johns (wonder why), so she’s going to illicit their help in her defense.
Read moreThree Days — Three Cities
As one friend noted, I’m doing the rock star tour. I am headed to Pittsburgh this morning, and will fly
Read moreHome From Dallas
Well, I got home from Dallas late last night (as in just before midnight). Overall, it was a good trip. We caught up with a lot of clients and uncovered a few possible leads. I also had a chance to see people I’d not seen in a while.
Read moreBP Gaming the System
OK, out comes the tinfoil hat in regards to BP shutting down this Alaskan pipeline. Of course I want the
Read moreMore Deep Features-Mobile Computing
Along with the recently added “ratings” feature, we’ve now made the jump to mobile technologies. Recently I was on the
Read moreUpdate on July 17, 2006
As you may have noticed, there have not been a lot posts over the past couple of weeks. For the past three weeks, I’ve been on very tight deadlines with a bunch of very large proposals. For the first pay period of July, I’d put 110 hours on the time sheet. That’s two weeks, and I probably didn’t record all the time.
Read moreSenate Kills Bill to Police Haliburton
In an effort to stop companies like Halliburton and its subsidiaries from cheating our troops and stealing from Americans, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), introduced S.AMDT.4230 and attached it to the Defense Authorization bill currently being debated in the Senate. The bill was intended to improve contracting “by eliminating fraud and abuse and improving competition in contracting and procurement.”
Read moreWhat’s the most fuel efficient car?
We’re all paying record high prices for gas making us chumps to the super profitable oil companies. Many people are taking hybrid cars more seriously now. So just which car is the most fuel efficient?
Read moreIs there such a thing as a Second World Country
Third World countries (now known as “developing nations”) are countries with a low “Human Development Index.” First World countries (like the United States, Japan, and Germany) score much higher on the HDI. A nation’s HDI is determined by its literacy rate, poverty rate, life expectancy, etc. There is indeed a Second World, though the expression isn’t exactly parallel to the other terms, and these days, few mention it.
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