Wednesday, October 29, 2008

This is one of those news bits that just makes me wonder: why do people bother? Not in a negative or positive way… just a quick second of pause. An eleven-year-old girl drags her family out of an upturned car because she knew that flipped-over cars tend to explode in Grand Theft Auto. And which [...]

Flip is Back… at Flipping

October 29, 2008 at 7:22 PM

in Gaming,Meanderings

… at least, game-wise (in the CNBC $1M Challenge game). It looks like, about the same time as my post about the ‘game, Flip is getting back into the action with this third iteration of the game. This will probably be an interesting 10 weeks of twisty-turny nausea (and maybe even a bit of vomiting), [...]

In light of Apple’s [AAPL] fantastic reported performance in the last quarter, a lot of financial analysts have grumbled about the huge warchest that Steve & Co. are sitting on and why it hasn’t been been used to buttress the stock value against the hordes of crazed speculators and economic downturn volatility. Here’s an example: [...]

AOL-Yahoo Merger: How to Play the Game

October 29, 2008 at 3:06 PM · 1 comment

in Management

This is one of those perennial murmurs through the IT community, it seems: who/what is going to buy AOL, and what is the damage going to be? As an ex-AOL’er, this is always a fun thread to follow, across the blogosphere and even as bleed-through to traditional media. Today, CNBC is repeating a Reuters article [...]