Archive for the ‘Opinion’ Category

Late to the Party Part 6, I discover Del.icio.us

So I know I’m late to the party. Really late. I was cleaning up my desk the other day in preparation to move, and I found this fantastic article about olive oil sitting on my desk. My Dad had given it to me, and I wanted to save it but I didn’t [...]

How much would you pay to use Google?

I got to thinking about how much I use Google to answer questions the other day. My search activity calendar looks like this every month:

Even between Jan 1-3 when I was in Vegas I did 1-3 searches. Some months are even more heavy than this. So how much would I pay? [...]

Why I Went Short GOOG at $700

I just read an article at Vestopedia about why the author sold his Google stock at $741. His reasoning was based on an article by Stephen Dubner (of the ever-popular Freakonomics) about regression to the mean by athletes.
Thing is, I don’t agree with the reasoning that Google should go lower because their freakishly high [...]

How to Pass Up the Opportunity of a Lifetime

I was going to cross-post this on Shoemoney, but I’ll just link it instead.

So… Mint

I joined the seemlingly 60M other people in signing up for mint.com yesterday. Its slower than old people sex right now, but having been down that bumpy road I’m not going to complain too much.
At first I was like “Ohhhh pretty buttons” and I liked it a lot. Now that I’ve given it [...]