Reuters. “Momentum can't be denied in this market and so we find ourselves now … atop $50 perhaps headed for $60 absent some unforeseen catalyst for a wave of speculative selling,” said Marshall Steeves of brokers Refco. Wait until the attacks in Saudi Arabia after the US elections (to me, and most of the top… Continue reading Reuters. “Momentum can't be denied in this market and so we find
ourselves now … atop $50 perhaps headed for $60 absent some
unforeseen catalyst for a wave of speculative selling,” said Marshall
Steeves of brokers Refco. Wait until the attacks in Saudi Arabia
after the US elections (to me, and most of the top terrorist analysts,
Bush is Osama's choice for president). [John Robb's Weblog
Author: Vince Kimball
Youssef Ibrahim
Youssef Ibrahim. $50 oil is due to the loss of Iraqi exports. I concur. As producers like Iraq are taken off-line (what you have to look at is average production rather than high points between shut downs), we move to production in higher cost countries. This has already driven up long term oil contracts (5… Continue reading Youssef Ibrahim
Hard to Write
Hard to Write. Since I've started with UserLand, I've found it a bit hard to write. I spend a good amount of time self-censoring content–especially about blogging, Radio UserLand and programming. I have to be careful that I don't portray and opinion about something that could be attributed to UserLand. With that said… Radio UserLand… Continue reading Hard to Write
Wilder Tinderbox
Wilder Tinderbox. Fresh from Tinderbox Weekend, Doug Miller posts a bunch of exciting Tinderbox sample files. Lots of great examples — whiteboard, notebook, job search tracking, customer relationship management, and a Fagerjordian weblog. [Mark Bernstein]
Read your GMail inbox in FeedDemon
Read your GMail inbox in FeedDemon. As reported all over the place, Google recently added an Atom feed to each GMail account. To subscribe to your inbox Atom feed in FeedDemon, click the “New Channel” button and use this URL: https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom After subscribing, you'll be prompted for your GMail user name and password. The feed… Continue reading Read your GMail inbox in FeedDemon
Telework & Groove
Telework & Groove. As we wrote in our September email bulletin, telework is a hot topic. This recent Wall Street Journal article reports that in the U.S. the number of people telecommuting shot up 41% from last year. A recent global study by Pendaflex found that with more home offices and increased telecommuting, the boundaries… Continue reading Telework & Groove
Update: Curio 2.0
Update: Curio 2.0. The freeform environment for note-taking and sketching adds outline lists and to-do lists, user-definable flags and ratings, a more powerful integrated asset library, and more. [MacInTouch]
U.S. Report Finds Iraq Was Minimal Weapons Threat in '03
U.S. Report Finds Iraq Was Minimal Weapons Threat in '03. Iraq now appears to have destroyed its stockpiles of illicit weapons within months of the 1991 war, the top American inspector in Iraq said in a report. By DOUGLAS JEHL. [The New York Times > Home Page]
agile web site development
agile web site development. Jason Fried spoke yesterday at Web 2.0 in a talk titled “Ligtweight Business Models.” I might have titled his portion of the talk “Agile Design.” It seems like the ideas from Xtreme Programming aka Agile Development are cropping up for non-programmers. This internet savvy generation is not content as a worker… Continue reading agile web site development
MarsEdit and WYSIWYG editing
MarsEdit and WYSIWYG editing. An interesting question came up in the comments for the previous post: why doesn’t MarsEdit do WYSIWYG editing? We plan to add WYSIWYG editing in the future, but it’s not there yet. I’m not sure what more I can say publicly about it, because this feature depends on another company making… Continue reading MarsEdit and WYSIWYG editing