Monthly Archives: January 2009

Obama’s Impossible Task

Coming on the heels of yesterday’s massive layoffs – thats over 76.000 in one day! – and that fact that Obama has been in office all of one week, it seems appropriaate to try take an even handed look at … Continue reading

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Hail to the Chief!

A truly historic day as Barak Obama has been sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America. I really don’t have anything to say other than: Now get to work!

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The Inspirational Story of Nick Vijicic

Over at the Four Hour Work Week, Tim Ferriss has a very inspiration post up about an Australian named Nick Vijicic. Here is his web site: Life Without Limbs.  Nick is a motivational speaker who was born without limbs.  He … Continue reading

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Welcome to a Brave New Web!

Meet Markus Frind and PlentyofFish.com, the new entrepreneurial poster boy.  A few years ago he built a no frills dating website by himself and now the site gets more page views then Match.com.  He did it all by keeping it … Continue reading

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Dr. Doom Strikes Again!

Over at Bloomberg.com Noriel Roubini, kindly nicknamed Dr. Doom for his tendancy to make pessimistic (but often accurate) economic forecasts, predicts that it is only going to get worse before it gets better: Unfortunately, the worst is ahead of us. … Continue reading

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London Fireworks on New Year’s Day 2009

London Fireworks on New Year’s Day 2009 Posted using ShareThis

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