Real Estate Investing is Very Inefficient
Over the last year I have been much more involved in the day to day minutia of real estate investing than ever before. Sure, I have been investing since 1984 but never really looked at the systematic process.
There are lots of inefficiencies in real estate investing. I came to that realization while trying to get [...]
How I Use Speech Recognition Technology
Speech recognition technology has come a long way since my first exposure to it in the summer of 1995. Today, even using the free Microsoft engine you can achieve some astounding results. Speech recognition is on its way to becoming ubiquitous and no doubt will be interacting with our computers more and more by voice [...]
My First Complaint About My MacBook Pro
When I bought my MacBook about a month ago, I didn’t load the Leopard upgrade right away. In fact, I kept putting it off and putting it off. Then a couple of days ago, I needed to load the latest development release of some software from the developers. But, to load that, I needed to [...]
No Longer Supporting Vista
I have been writing windows applications and managing teams writing windows applications since the very first edition, 1.0 came out in the 1980’s. I was happy to see the leap in technology with Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 Server and Windows XP. Yes, I know I left some out, they sucked just [...]
I Really Liked WordPerfect When It Was Viable…
but, I really regret using it to write the FastDraft for Power Users book in 2003.
Why? Because, now I am trying to push it up to the Field Guide for Investors for the members there who use FastDraft. It is not an easy process. I had to reinstall WordPerfect 11 which I used to use [...]
I Should Have Done This YEARS Ago!
I used to look at them the same way UNIX admins looked at PC users. I bought the koolaid of no market share and I drank it because it was comfortable. Windows wasn’t great, but it was acceptable and the price of hardware continued to fall while performance specs continued to blow through the roof [...]
Have I Mentioned How Much I HATE Microsoft Vista?
No? Well, there, I have now.
Vista absolutely SUCKS. I have been using it on a laptop for a few months now and I can’t find a single redeeming feature about it.
I seriously considered loading XP on this laptop, but wait, no audio drivers.
Okay, how about linux? No audio drivers.
Solaris? No audio drivers.
Now, to be fair, [...]
Sorry, But Flight Depends on Air Speed, not Ground Speed.
From Boortz.com
STILL MORE FROM THE AIRPLANE ON THE TREADMILL THINGY
You just can’t believe some of the amazingly stupid email I’ve been receiving from true pedigreed idiots over this airplane-on-a-treadmill bit.
OK .. now put away all rational thought. Try to imagine that you are absurdly ignorant and that you haven’t had a rational [...]
Looking Forward, This Should be a Good Year for Investors.
Yes, the retail residential real estate market is still volatile and trending down. But, only real estate speculators buy at retail. The investor buys properties based on value and cash flow.
Yes, there is some weakness showing in some commercial real estate markets. But, again, the long term value investor will be fine.
REITs are massively over-sold. [...]
Yeah, Okay, Fine, But Just Why Did It Go Out?
On Thursday afternoon my internet connection to the world went down. Okay, a big so what with that. People lose their internet connections for short periods all the time. But, mine is DSL and there was no dial-tone on the line either. What’s more there was no DC voltage on the line. Curious, but no [...]
