Mark Cuban vs. the so-called-experts

The Stock Market: The New Normal ?

“Past Performance is No Indication of Future Results”. Its a statement attached to every financial salespitch ever offered. So why is it no one believes it ?

Paul Graham vs. the recession

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

And if you're worried about threats to the survival of your company, don't look for them in the news. Look in the mirror.

Line Eater

There is a batch file that we run to create a version of RPM that's ready for deployment. It does some optimizations on some files among other tasks. I recently needed to have it remove the first line of every JavaScript file. After trying some unsuccessful batch file tricks, I figured it would be faster to whip up a little app to do it.

So if you need a command line utility to remove lines from the start of a file, be my guest: Line Eater.

Tory Minority

A minority government for the Conservatives - not a horrible result. Canada has a lot of things that going well, so I can understand why people vote for the status quo. I don't mind the Conservatives much myself, with two major exceptions. First is their scary design for copyright. Second is my personal vow to never put an x by my candidate my representative out of respect for Maher Arar. Those reasons aside, my motivation for a protest vote was mostly from a desire for a reform of the whole election and representation system. And a frustration for not having any party I really like.

At least there's little doubt that Dion was a bad choice as leader of the Liberals. What were you reds thinking?

Best Show Ever

Just finished the series finale of The Wire, and I will say it's the best TV drama I've seen. I can't even watch Law & Order anymore, and that's big for me. If you're going to give The Wire a try, please watch it from the beginning. Your reward will be an HBO series that ends even stronger than it starts. Finally.

Get Your War On

Bailout?! and Sarah Palin and the Rape Kits are my favorites. Yes rape is a serious subject, but that's point - know your candidates. I would hope the reality would be more shocking than the comic.

The US election is much more interesting entertaining than ours.

Oh yah, there's an election here too

The four parties are each unappealing. Green seems like a possibility for a protest vote, but wouldn't it be great to actually have someone to vote for?

At least I see my Green candidate is actually an engineer and business owner.