Archive for February 26th, 2008

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iPhone SDK

February 26, 2008

Could be late or not.

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George Ou finds a new Mac vulnerability

February 26, 2008

Macs are crime magnets! George says, “Secure those Macs, Apple!”The Brooklyn Paper:

Burglars stole a $1,200 laptop from a Wythe Avenue apartment on Feb. 6.The 23-year-old tenant of the unit, which is between Broadway and South EighthStreet, said the iMac was still there when he left home at 5:30 pm.But when he returned just an hour later, it was gone.

Gawker adds it up:

We noticed that much of the stolen booty was Apple-related, and graphed it out for further analysis. Out of all computers stolen, 78% were Macs.

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Man gets bitten by goose, sues railroad

February 26, 2008

Thanks for clogging up the legal system with this:

Aaron E. Richards claims he was assigned to perform a brake test on a train in the Keyser Receiving Yard near Ravenswood at 1:15 a.m. on April 23, 2005.

“As Plaintiff performed the required inspection, a goose which was previously known by Defendant to have nested in its yard area, suddenly jumped out from under one of the railcars, striking Plaintiff, and causing him to fall resulting in injuries and damages,” according to the lawsuit filed Feb. 4 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia at Huntington.

What a quack!

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This is how Black Swans happen

February 26, 2008

Small Business Labs

Forecasting is a fun business.  I got my latest financial Market Strategy update this morning from Raymond James.  In it they forecast how the stock market may move this week.  Key quote: 

“While it looks to us as if the current wedge pattern has no “slant” (up or down), the DJIA is clearly coiling its way toward the apex of the wedge.  In fact, this is the week the DJIA should either break out to the upside, or the downside, of said “wedge.”" 

Put more simply, they are saying the stock market could either go up or down this week.  Later in the same memo they point out that the market could also move sideways. 

So caught up in the technical jargon and can’t see the sh*tstorm thats about to hit them!