Archive for January, 2008

Can’t complain when it’s free

So I came home. Parked my car in the sub-basement and I was pleasantly surprised that there was this elevator waiting just for me. Well this is going to be one lucky day. In my building to save on energy or maintenance only one or at the most two elevators would be working. In off [...]

A little while ago in my previous entry I mentioned that I sit on the fence when it comes to Fundamental or Technical Analysis of stocks and couldn’t decide which way to go. But there is a part of Fundamental Analysis viz. Qualitative Analysis that appeals to me over its other part Quantitative Analysis.
Qualitative analysis [...]

“You talking to me”

Remember this guy?

Whenever I see someone having a private talk on their bluetooth enabled cellphone and at the same time trying to strike a conversation with me, I find it to be mildly annoying at first. Not to the degree Robert De Nero exhibits in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). But frustrating to some extent. [...]

Another day another dollar

Just when you thought times are hard and what a dollar can buy you these days, Starbucks is test marketing $ 1 cup of coffee in its home town area. Recession has its benefits. Numerous dollar shops in your neighborhood are proof positive that a dollar still buys something. Recently I picked up a [...]

Today’s news: gold surges past a record $900 an ounce. In today’s market, everything else with a tangible, marketable value has plunged: real estate, shares, currency, automobiles, computer products etc. The exception is oil which is rightly (?) termed as ‘black gold’. It is understandable that, so much of our life is dependent on oil [...]

Laptop Buying Guide

My dear readers,
As always my effort and focus is to save you time and money while providing useful content. This project is about getting you the latest information about current notebook models in the market. I attempt to keep this site as a one stop shop for assistance in buying a suitable notebook from among [...]

Lost in Montreal

I told him not to go. I mean, I adviced my long time Polish friend not to visit Montreal. Not this time of the year and definitely not in his beloved clunker the Audi 100, model year 87-88. But he wouldn’t have any of my advice. Not that I have anything against Montreal or the [...]

Hash Browns in MySpace ?!!

Recently I had breakfast with my friend at McDonalds. I ordered muffins, hash browns and coffee for both of us. My friend, a strict vegetarian limited himself to muffins and coffee and declined to have the hash browns. I was curious to know why. May be he is on diet. No, he told me that [...]

Fundamental or Technical ?

“To be or not to be, that is the question;
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,…..”
Hamlet ponders in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
Well that may not be question that modern day Shakespeare would have had Hamlet to contemplate. He would rather have him philosophize on the merits [...]

The closer you get

The other day I was seeing the movie titled “The closer you get”.
The movies tagline may run like any of the following:
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- Dont miss the wood for the trees
- John Lennon s famous quote Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making [...]