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Sub Prime Stupidity

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Tons of money chasing mortgage backed securities.
Interest rates really low.
Government says it wants everyone to be able to own their own home.
Interest rates slowly move up, but still at historically low rates.
Real estate markets begin to cool as rates rise from their uber-low levels, fears of inflation, real estate bubbles and poor job markets increase.
Loan [...]

Microsoft’s Research Bot and Algorithm Work

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Well, I noticed that a bot named MSRBot was grabbing a lot of pages from one of my sites just now and since I have not really frequented any search engine forums lately I didn’t know what it was. Turns out it is Microsoft’s Research Bot. Upon further inspection I noticed that the information [...]

Tivo Series 2 – Lifetime Subscription

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

It is a sad day here in the Golod household. I put my faithful Tivo Series 2 DVR with lifetime subscription up for sale on eBay. I have not used the Tivo in many moons, mostly because I became a big backer of Microsoft’s Media Center Edition platform and more recently of the Comcast [...]

Two Things to do Before You Die

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Yesterday was a pretty good day for me. My brother-in-law hooked me up with a ticket for the NCAA regional games down in San Jose yesterday…great. Then I met up with the wife and her friends to go see Soulive. Every time I see Soulive it is a life changing experience. You [...]

NEO for Outlook

Monday, March 12th, 2007

If you are like me and you have about 10 years of emails archived in your Outlook folders, then you are going to want to check out an Outlook add-on called NEO. I was taking the longest route possible back from New Orleans yesterday and was fortunate enough to sit next to a fellow [...]

I Broke Google Adsense

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

In case you were wondering, Google’s Adsense web site is apparently down right now. I went over there to tidy up a couple of things and check on some others and apparently they give you this message when the Adsense site is down. Glad to know they are covering every language on the face [...]