Monthly Archives: January 2008

AMZN pre-CC thoughts

Deutch Bank upgraded AMZN today…crap.  They are likely much more informed than I. I’m starting to worry, I knew there would be short covering going on. AMZN is up 2% on the day, and I’ve lost the paper gains I had yesturday.  I’m break even on my short, and I’m recalling a time when I said [...]
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A Slow Boom, Quick Bust, and an Aftermath

You know what I hear on bloomberg, allot of people asking “when will housing bottom?”  I just don’t see it happening for much longer than everyone is saying.  The reason: boomers have two reasons now to trade in big houses for small houses. 1) they are getting old and physically don’t need a bigger house [...]
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Stocks At all Time Highs, Sign Me Up

The investing side of me is a culmination of every investment I’ve ever made as well as every investment I’ve ever seen.  I take pleasure in learning from the successful.  The present value of a lesson learned is infinite. I’m jumping on the bandwagon with the teachings of two different millionaires I know…a Hawaiian and Albertan Real Estate [...]
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The 7th or 8th guy at Facebook, or was it Winamp, says…

I promise I’m not going to blog about UX all the time. The other day I was at the Hilton listening to a keynote speech given by Chamath Palihapitiya. He was one of the founding partners in Facebook (now VP of marketing), as well as other Internet phenomena like ICQ, and Winamp. By the [...]
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Writing: You’re Not Born Knowing How.

That’s obvious. When infact it isn’t.  If it was obvious, I could have called the title “Writing” and you would have added in the rest. This is just a little humour for myself, because I found this, interesting.
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User Interfaces Keep Getting Better

Over the last decade it has come to the attention of education providers everywhere as well as successful corporations that the user experience is the bottom line for a great product.  Simple. Effective. Quick. Painless. Elegant. Light. Easy. Creative. Products like this will be sought after at any price.  Check out the Apple Human Interface Guidelines for developers Apple, Google and [...]
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Three Technologies that are Going to Stick

Accelerometers, Gyroscopes & GPS. They are being put in everything, combined with other products at an unbelievably high rate. Some applications are not even discovered for these chips yet.  I can’t believe they haven’t been adopted sooner. Look at the new stuff from Logitech, Apple, and RIM they are the leaders and will [...]
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Hello People! (Update)

I decided to start this blog, because I’m starting to discover how big the world actually is. I’m 2 months away from graduation, currently considering my options. I could go entrepreneurial with some of my ideas, get really hardcore into the technology & user experience side of engineering or I could dive into the world of [...]
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