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"Good choice I think. The 10 hours battery life though just reminds me that Linux needs to get better at battery life." - Bankwatch

"I have a diffierent point to make here. Why do you need the plugins? I have been reading you for years, and your blog design is not relevant. Content and comments are important. Then when you added things like that annoying Google Friend Connect visiting the site became less enjoyable. Anyhow thats why I am happy I am sticking with wp.com. Cloud hosting is no different than having your own server in that it takes tender love and constant care and 24 hour monitoring. Thats not what blogging is." - Bankwatch

"I agree with the track you suggest here that twitter in itself will not drive to a revenue producing business model. FaceBook will arrive at a business model once they look internally and realise the power of user information they hold, but I just do not see that with Twitter, which is more likely to become an add-on service to something else, such as CNN, Google, or Microsoft." - Bankwatch

"Google’s decision to extend work on its Chrome web browser to include a computer operating system is the latest sign that browsers are breaking out of their traditional mould, amid new developments in how we access the web." - Chris Nuttall from Bookmarklet

This is the best commentary I have seen yet on the Google OS announcement. Everyone is too keen to write this off as some kind of inconsequential play that will never see the consumer light of day. Also the involvement of linux confuses people too. This will change things for the better and make computers better, faster and user friendly. - Bankwatch

thanks! - Chris Nuttall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is what this is. - Robert Scoble

egad .... NPS has been debated amongst marketers for years. It is useful if used with care. The primary benefit is the simplicity. The primary negative is that it can drive unintended consequences when companies try to shift the score. - Bankwatch

This is an important process and I find myself doing the same thing. I am glad you landed where I have that blogs are alive and well, but their context is aligned with the longer thoughtful side of things, and well categorised easy to find - all things blogs do well. - Bankwatch

That is why citizen journalism is going to surpass the big networks. Everyone is now a reporter. - Shawn Hickman

Christian is Iranian, and was in Tehran since before the elections. She is barred from speaking openly while in Tehran, and we know that right? - Bankwatch

"Thought so too ... but i also found myself with no OO after the first set of instructions, to then used Synaptic which told me I had files to remove, files to upgrade etc. When i launched writer after that, it was still V3.0 even in the small print. Quick reboot, and now see 1.3.1.0rc1 thanks for clear writing btw - not common ;-)" - Bankwatch

"Thanks for this - mission accomplished. Final thing for me was to reboot of al things, and then the "About" reflected the right version. In simple terms for me, the key was to use synaptic as its meant, to look for upgrades, and it did the job .. then the reboot, which still surprised me and not something I am used to with Linux. Awesome work guys." - Bankwatch

Thanks Greg. - Bankwatch

No, Colin, thank you. Just from reading your post, I have a lot of studying to do. - Greg GuitarBuster

@Greg .. I am just trying to figure it out and blogging helps me with that. There is so much hanging on getting this right, yet my faith in government to become economic rocket scientists overnight is low. - Bankwatch

"# World economy to contract for first time in 60 years # More sustained, concerted policy actions needed to revive growth # G-20 summit scheduled for April 2 in London" - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

"Experts worry that the dramatic expansion of the Fed's balance sheet could make it harder to reduce the money supply once the economy starts to recover, causing inflation." - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

"According to the Wall Street Journal, Jon (Scourge of Wall Street) Stewart and Larry (Wall Street Bigshot) Leibowitz are literal brothers in arms." - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

"This man seems doomed." - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

"The US Federal Reserve says it will buy almost $1.2 trillion (£843bn) worth of debt to help boost lending and promote economic recovery." - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

"ePolitix.com examines the potential recommendations to be made by Lord Turner when he publishes his review of financial services regulation on Wednesday. The much anticipated review by the chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) is expected to be used as a framework in the creation of a revised financial regulatory structure and by the government in its attempts to create an international regulatory framework." - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

"Many Apple watchers believe the company is preparing to unveil new hardware updates to the iPhone over the summer, and they speculate that they might include a less expensive version." - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

Pakistan’s president will reinstate Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary as chief justice of the supreme court, in an attempt to quash a direct challenge to his rule. The move by Asif Ali Zardari defuses a two-year dispute that contributed to the downfall last year of his predecessor. EDITOR’S CHOICE Pakistan riots expose Zardari’s weakness - Mar-16 Nawaz Sharif profile - Mar-15 Army chief tries to defuse Pakistan crisis - Mar-13 Editorial: Burning Pakistan - Mar-12 Riots broke out in 2007 after Mr Chaudhary was dismissed by then-president General Pervez Musharraf. Yusuf Raza Gilani, prime minster, said early Monday in a pre-sunrise speech on national television: “Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary will take charge as chief justice of the supreme court after the retirement of Abdul Hameed Dogar (the present chief justice of the supreme court) when he retires on March 21.” - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

"Even so, they still seemed to have divergent views on what actions are required now." - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

"It may or may not come as much of a surprise but some of the happiest, most interesting people we've met over the past 24 months are those who live right above the shop. You might want to consider being their neighbour." - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

"BEIJING — The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, spoke in unusually blunt terms on Friday about the “safety” of China’s $1 trillion investment in American government debt, the world’s largest such holding, and urged the Obama administration to offer assurances that the securities would maintain their value." - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

"Join the queue In the rich world the job losses are starkest in America, where the recession began. Its flexible labour market has shed 4.4m jobs since the downturn began in December 2007, including more than 600,000 in each of the past three months. The unemployment rate jumped to 8.1% in February, the highest in a quarter-century. An American who loses his job today has less of a chance of finding another one than at any time since records began half a century ago. That is especially worrying when the finances of many households have come to depend on two full incomes. But it is already clear that unemployment will strike hard far beyond America and Britain. In Japan output is plunging faster than in other rich economies. Although unemployment is low, rapid job losses among Japan’s army of temporary workers are exposing the unfairness of a two-tier labour market and straining an egalitarian society. In Europe joblessness has grown fastest in places such as Spain and Ireland, where building booms have" - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

Awesome, that is nice to have things all lined up nicely like that. Of course, that's not due to just luck.. you're a very talented and smart guy with a crazy amount of industry connections and good will. You're a good example of career networking... very cool. Can't wait to hear what opportunity you landed! Cheers! <insert bottle of wine> - Susan Beebe

Allen - DM me! LOL I can't wait - way too curious! - Susan Beebe

"Rising inflation expectations, rather than deflation, is the new fear. Warren Buffett – the man who said the US economy had “fallen off a cliff” – believes inflation could return to 1970s levels. Jim Rogers – the man who said the UK was “finished” – expects much the same. Pimco, the bond fund, sees similar risks." - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

"The Treasury, which has retained Citigroup to help it in negotiations with Barclays, is expected to start discussions with the bank in the next few days." - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

Lunacy - David HC Soul

"By 2006, it could “take a whole weekend” for computers to perform the calculations needed to assess the risks of complex CDOs, admit officials at Standard & Poor’s rating agency." - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

"It is often overlooked that Smith did not take the pure market mechanism to be a free-standing performer of excellence, nor did he take the profit motive to be all that is needed." - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet

"this innovation became so intense that it outran the comprehension of most ordinary bankers – not to mention regulators." and "The reason, he believes, lay in “groupthink ... and pressure to get business done” – as well as a sheer lack of understanding about how the models worked." This article really gives innovation a bad name. - Bankwatch from Bookmarklet