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John Mauldin, who I read often, ran a perfectly ghastly 
article in his Outside the Box yesterday: click here to read it. I highlight it here for two reasons:
1. The diagram in the middle is an interesting depiction of the ”tells” or warning signs of companies that fail in a big way which may be useful for shorting or just getting out of the way of the next debacle.
2. At the bottom is a reasoned list of “dead man walking” financials which are poised to inconvenience depositors, bite bondholders, and wipe out shareholders.
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You may have noticed – and I hope you did – that these blog pages carry advertising. I’m fascinated with affiliate marketing programs and decided to experiment with a few select companies I know and use myself.
To date, in each post where I’ve put a link to an advertiser, I have included a disclosure that says I’ll get commission on the sale. Now that I think about it, it’s not such big a deal that they need to get called out in every post. So I’m going to discontinue that, explain here how it works, and let this post be my blanket disclosure.
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Here is a high level survey of software platforms to build web sites, ranging from high price professional tools to their free open source counterparts. This is not meant to be a comprehensive report – its a rundown of my recent experiences. Continue reading
This note on web hosting is part 3 in a series on what I’ve learned about setting up web sites. Check the category “Internet Business” for the rest.
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Several friends asked about setting up a website so I’m sharing my experiences here in this blog. I wrote an overview earlier. Today’s post is about domain names. Continue reading
Yesterday I participated in Market Wizard Ed Seykota’s Trading Tribe Meeting at Lake Tahoe. Continue reading
Do you know, when you look at a web page, what you are really seeing? Do you wonder how this site got here? I want to share what I’ve learned lately about making websites and give a roadmap for people who, like me, want to have their own sites for business and pleasure. Continue reading
Here on my very first evening with the blog I cruise around trying to see which end is up. The next few posts will be experiments to see how much I can do with the basic setup. Really wish I could find a way to edit that main page image but that eludes me so far.