Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Caesar

At the linked site, check out the photo of the new bust of Caesar that has been found.

More about the man that we never knew before. There is still much to discover out there.

Divers find Caesar bust that may date to 46 B.C.
PARIS - Divers trained in archaeology discovered a marble bust of an aging Caesar in the Rhone River that France's Culture Ministry said Tuesday could be the oldest known

Why can't I think of good names like this?

Continental Termite & Investment Corp
Diamond Bar, CA 91765

Monday, May 12, 2008

More news from the revolution

Here is some more inside info on what happened at the Nevada Republican Convention. And the Ron Paul insurgents are also raising some money at this site to continue their revolt.

The Nevada Republican State Convention of 2008 - What Happened and Why

Are you afraid of heights?

Gavin sends this along.

Doing nothing

Best insight I've seen in a while on the credit crisis. (John Carney at DealBreaker, commenting on an NYT article.)

Monday, May 05, 2008

Sunday, May 04, 2008

I have to admit I laughed

From the comments on this article about the collapse of the Yahoo/Microsoft negotiations (Seeking Alpha):

Lonnie Devereaux
May 04 11:17 AM
Yahoo should just focus now on their chocolate milk business. It's still the best one on the market.

Them's fightin words

Around these parts XTP is Xpress Transport Protocol, not "Extreme Transaction Processing", whatever the heck that is.

So about that middleware

The best part was, after a one hour presentation on "Oracle Fusion Middleware", by quite a polished speaker, he asks for questions...

Too Big to Explain (Clever Elephant)