The Conestoga Mall here in Grand Island, Nebraska lost $60 (more actually) of sales for their retailers today. I went in to get Christmas gift cards, only to discover that they charge $2 per card over and above the value of the card. For a $10 card (we were going to buy them for 6 [...]

Yesterday, I suggested we organize a Day Without Email where we’d all shut off our SMTP servers for a day. We wouldn’t send any email out, and no email would come in. (But messages to us wouldn’t get lost because the senders’ servers would keep retrying till we turned our SMTP servers back on tomorrow).
So [...]

I’ve had it! This morning I could barely connect to my server because it was so overrun with bounces of spam sent by people spoofing my email addresses (ie. spammers sending email with an email address at one of my domains in the senders address). I’m not kidding. The traffic was so heavy that HTTP [...]

It’s been said that capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the rest.
The power and success of capitalism come from the fact that it tends to channel self-interest in ways that benefit society. A capitalist produces what people want, because that’s what people will buy. If he’s not able to produce one thing [...]

In Russell Brunson’s 100 Million Dollar Challenge, he says that the role of an entrepreneur is (among other things) to spend as much money as possible. His point is valid, but I can’t agree entirely.
The theory is that by spending money, entrepreneurs stimulate the economy because jobs are created in order to make the things [...]

There are plenty of people to blame in the current mortgage meltdown — executives who took huge salaries while building a feeble house of financial cards, buyers who bit off more than they could chew, betting that home prices would only continue to rise, etc. In the talk of how to solve the problem, one [...]

The first time I saw Sarah Palin, she struck me as an intelligent, well-spoken person who had her head on straight. I’m not saying that I was ready to call myself a Republican again, but I was impressed. (BTW, I’m not calling myself a Democrat either, just so that you know).
So why on earth is [...]

Have you seen the ads lately for “reverse mortgages”? Have you wondered what they are? They sounded pretty suspicious to me, so I did a little searching.
At first glance, I thought I was seeing the reincarnation of the interest only loan as a “not even interest loan”, but (while that is essentially what it is) [...]

I saw an ad for Saturn cars tonight that said “Rethink MPG”. It bragged that one of their cars got 32 MPG highway, and another got 30. Back in 1994, when my SL-1 was built, they got made cars that got 40 MPG highway.
Guys, any possibility you could un-rethink MPG?

Ever wonder just how much of a problem spam email is? To give you an idea, here in no particular order are the 1,231 IP addresses from which my email server received at least 3 messages sent to invalid addresses within a single 5 minute period over the course of 4 hours.
That sentence may have [...]