You might also think about deleting the note that tells you to delete the graph!
Sorry for the looooong delay... I was kidnapped by an Arabist with Strabismus, it was rough!
Thankfully the Radicalists over at Craigslist rescued me so that I could continue with my important job of exposing the lies which most people call spellcheckers.
Six years ago, Michael T. Jackson was preparing for a much-deserved retirement. The firm he founded, the former EGM Capital, had successfully built a family of hedge funds focused on investing in high-quality, publicly traded U.S. emerging growth companies. Under Jackson’s guidance, the firm grew from a very modest beginning in 1986 to approximately $1.2 billion in client assets in 2001. As EGM built one of the best performance records in the hedge fund industry, Jackson’s own professional success was featured in the book Investment Visionaries alongside the creative thinkers behind Intel, Apple and Cisco. Then, a single trading allocation put the firm and its soon-to-be retired CEO in the crosshairs of the SEC.
In this candid Q&A interview, Jackson tells his side of the story as a case study for newly registered hedge funds, and offers a word of advice to these CEOs now faced with the challenge of increased SEC oversight.
Read the story for the full Interview with Michael T. Jackson
Check that out! The new Windows Live Mail totally rocks!Unfortuntely it only works in Internet Explorer, but it truely gives the feeling that Windows Live will be the IE "Killer Application".
This truely has the "look and feel" of a windows application and from my couple tests works great.
Obviously the first thing I check is how well the spell checking system works. Windows Mail Live has inline spell checking, so unlike gmail you don't have to click on the spell check button, but like Word if you spell a word incorrectly you get that red squiggly line underneath it. I instictively right-clicked on it and got exactly what I expected, a list of words to choose from. What I didn't expect was the option to "Ignore All" or "Add to Dictionary" both options which are not available in Gmail.
I've also signed up for the hosted service and have stuck one of my domains up. It will be interesting to see how that turns out :)
Thunderbird presents some alternatives to Object Oriented coding..
The word of the week comes thanks to Thunderbird!Thanks to Wikipedia, we now know that Cahokia was a Native American city located near Collinsville in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri, in the American Bottom floodplain. Cahokia is best known for large, man-made earthen structures, known popularly as mounds, the largest of which is Monk's Mound; as well as its timber circles named Woodhenge after Stonehenge, as both structures marked the solstices, equinoxes and other astronomical events. Cahokia Mounds was designated a National Historic Landmark on July 19, 1964. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, designated as a World Heritage Site in 1982, protects 2200 acres (8.9 km²) of the area of the mounds (but more of the site is on private land) and is the site of ongoing archaeological excavations. Cahokia is one of the best known sites of the Mississippian culture and the term "Cahokian" is sometimes used to describe the culture.
Yet another in the huge "we-don't-recognise-your-company" conspiracy! Maybe I'm just too big a geek, but how can anyone not know of Gmail and Rackspace?
That of course reminds me of the conversation that I had with one of the Rackspace sales guys."And, if I may ask, how did you hear about Rackspace"
"Doesn't everyone know about Rackspace"
"I like to think so"
So many things each day flow by my "stream of consciousness" figuring out what information came from which source can be complicated at times.
Interesting options they give as alternatives "DSL"ISL: Interface Specification Language
DBL: DataBase Language
ESL: Expert Systems LTD. (WTF?)
ASL: American Sign Language
DST: Daylight Savings Time
All the while DSL is described as: a generic name for digital lines that are provided by telephone companies to their local subscribers and that carry data at high speeds.
Boycot thunderbird I say!!!
Windows Live Search is awesome! The AJAX totally works, it is fantastic. You can either view the search results as full results, short results (like you see there) or just the titles.Anyway, the spelling goof here is the fact that no, I am not looking for Worms. Not that I have them already, but don't need them!
My first (only?) visitor, David, sent this one in.What is it with capitalizing the word Internet? This email post briefly discusses it. Penn State University Capitalizes, Wierd doesn't. I personally think it's silly to capitalize it, but most spellcheckers think otherwise.
Opinions?
NFL.com - NFL News
The federal government and several professional football players want to know what happened to the hundreds of millions of dollars the players and other investors poured into an Atlanta-based hedge-fund group.But before they can find the money, they have to find Kirk Wright.
Days after Wright and his company, International Management Associates, were sued in federal and state court, neither he nor the money has surfaced. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a federal lawsuit Feb. 27 against Wright and his firm, alleging five counts of fraud. The lawsuit joins a civil complaint filed in Georgia state court 10 days earlier.
The first hearing in the federal case is set for March 8, but even Wright’s attorney won’t say if his client will show up.
Wright “has made known his objective of finding a resolution that is acceptable to all interested parties,” said his attorney in the federal case, Jacob Frenkel. “Sometimes doing that takes a little bit longer than many would like or expect.”
Listed as plaintiffs in the state lawsuit are Terrell Davis, Steve Atwater, Rod Smith, Ray Crockett, Blaine Bishop, Al Smith — all current or former Denver Broncos — and Clyde Simmons, a former longtime player for the Philadelphia Eagles. Their attorney, Mark Trigg, has not returned messages left at his Atlanta office.
Wright and his company are accused of collecting between $115 million and $185 million from at least 500 investors since 1997 and misleading some of them — through false statements and documents — to believe the value of those investments was increasing.
APP.COM v4.0 - Corzine putting wealth into hedge funds | Asbury Park Press Online
Hoping to avoid any conflicts of interest, Gov.-elect Jon S. Corzine, who made his fortune as head of investment bank Goldman Sachs, is changing his extensive financial empire.
Corzine, with an estimated personal fortune of between $125 million and $175 million, is channeling most of his wealth into hedge funds that he will not control.
The governor-elect said the hedge funds he’s invested in do not do business with the state.
Plenty of cutting-edge scams likely are on tap for this year | www.azstarnet.com ®
Any financial scamster worth his salt knows that to be state-of-the-art in 2006, you have to hop on the freshest themes generating public angst.
Securities regulators and lawyers who represent hoodwinked investors are bracing for a 2006 that brings everything from bogus pitches for bird-flu investments to overpriced hedge funds for the individual investor.
Pay special attention to those honey-tongued pitchmen with titles like “senior adviser.” They figure to play prominent roles in the fleecing of retirees. Twenty-six states had enforcement cases that involved people using similar titles last year. Regulators say they expect more of the same in 2006.
And watch your wallet whenever you hear the words “alternative energy,” Texas Securities Commissioner Denise Voigt Crawford says. “We’re already beginning to see those schemes,” she says. “War in the Mideast makes it a wide arena for fraud.”
Think you’re too sophisticated to be swindled? Not every malefactor is spitting out spam-mail from a basement office. Some have a closet of Armani suits and target deeper-pocketed marks who listen to the pitches between sets at the tennis court.
Man Group assets rise
LONDON (Reuters) - The world’s largest listed hedge fund firm Man Group (EMG.L: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday its funds under management had risen to $45.8 billion (25.9 billion pounds) from $44.4 billion at the end of September.
Sales in the three months to end-December were estimated at $2.1 billion at the UK-based group. Of that total, private investors accounted for $1.6 billion and institutions $0.5 billion.
Redemptions for the same period totalled $1.4 billion, of which private investors accounted for $0.7 billion.
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