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Don’t Even Try to Predict the Future
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:16:49 PDT
Don’t Even Try to Predict the Future Listen to me — no one can predict the future. Even experts (like myself) have no better chance to predict future events than a flipped coin can. Crazy thing for the Chief Prognosticator to say, but that’s the statement made by the popular book “The Black Swan” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. When Taleb looked at the accuracy that “experts” had in making predictions, he found that they were usually no better than the average person at getting it right. That’s ama
50 Top 10 Lists of 2007
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:32:42 PDT
The powerful, the profound, the painful and the peculiar: These are the most noteworthy news events of the year
What Am I Listening to Now?
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:12:46 PDT
Reinvigorated, I loaded some new music for today. I have decided to work my way through my commercial CDs . . . at least for a while. For today I put on Bob Weir’s Heaven Help the Fool and David Sanborn’s As We Speak. Both offerings remind me of college. The first time I heard Heaven Help the Fool was my freshman year at the ‘Berg. I liked it. I always thought some of this should have shown up in the Dead’s roatation, but alas . . . What really struck me today was how short albums used to be
BREAKING NEWS: Bad Company Boycott Successful?
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:53:25 PDT
DICE COnfirms that there will now be NO CHARGE for Bad Company DLC Weapons. A Boycott is over, and the world is saved.
WordPress Upgrades
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:05:37 PDT
WordPress 2.3 and 2.2 upgrades include security and minor bugfixes without any plugin or theme compatibility issues. Do share your feedback if you upgrade.Download |WordPress | Instructions | Extended Upgrade GuideTag: Wordpress design, wordpress News,World News
New York stocks up yesterday. Did you hear?
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:57:27 PDT
New York stocks up yesterday. Did you hear? You’ve all heard the liberals’ media as they’ve incessantly tried to will the U.S. into a recession. Every negative stat is reported. The minutia of potentially negative economic data that are usually mercifully ignored: analyzed to death. Positive news: spun as negative. Stock market falls: it’s all over the news. Some screen-captures of previous CBC coverage what I think they hope is U.S. economic Armageddon… The 400+ point gain yes
World's News Headlines Still Reeling with Doom and Gloom, but Economic and Business News Strongly Upbeat, New Metric Finds
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:01 PST
Although news organizations around the world worked to bring their audiences a good mix of stories and feature articles, on balance, the news for the first day of 2008 featured more negative stories...
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:16:49 PDT
Don’t Even Try to Predict the Future Listen to me — no one can predict the future. Even experts (like myself) have no better chance to predict future events than a flipped coin can. Crazy thing for the Chief Prognosticator to say, but that’s the statement made by the popular book “The Black Swan” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. When Taleb looked at the accuracy that “experts” had in making predictions, he found that they were usually no better than the average person at getting it right. That’s ama
50 Top 10 Lists of 2007
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:32:42 PDT
The powerful, the profound, the painful and the peculiar: These are the most noteworthy news events of the year
What Am I Listening to Now?
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:12:46 PDT
Reinvigorated, I loaded some new music for today. I have decided to work my way through my commercial CDs . . . at least for a while. For today I put on Bob Weir’s Heaven Help the Fool and David Sanborn’s As We Speak. Both offerings remind me of college. The first time I heard Heaven Help the Fool was my freshman year at the ‘Berg. I liked it. I always thought some of this should have shown up in the Dead’s roatation, but alas . . . What really struck me today was how short albums used to be
BREAKING NEWS: Bad Company Boycott Successful?
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:53:25 PDT
DICE COnfirms that there will now be NO CHARGE for Bad Company DLC Weapons. A Boycott is over, and the world is saved.
WordPress Upgrades
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:05:37 PDT
WordPress 2.3 and 2.2 upgrades include security and minor bugfixes without any plugin or theme compatibility issues. Do share your feedback if you upgrade.Download |WordPress | Instructions | Extended Upgrade GuideTag: Wordpress design, wordpress News,World News
New York stocks up yesterday. Did you hear?
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:57:27 PDT
New York stocks up yesterday. Did you hear? You’ve all heard the liberals’ media as they’ve incessantly tried to will the U.S. into a recession. Every negative stat is reported. The minutia of potentially negative economic data that are usually mercifully ignored: analyzed to death. Positive news: spun as negative. Stock market falls: it’s all over the news. Some screen-captures of previous CBC coverage what I think they hope is U.S. economic Armageddon… The 400+ point gain yes
World's News Headlines Still Reeling with Doom and Gloom, but Economic and Business News Strongly Upbeat, New Metric Finds
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:01 PST
Although news organizations around the world worked to bring their audiences a good mix of stories and feature articles, on balance, the news for the first day of 2008 featured more negative stories...
