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Going to GamesCom this summer
It’s been a while since my last post blog post, didn’t really have much to say This week I booked a hotel room for GamesCom, this is a new games and entertainment show in Cologne, Germany. It’s somewhat the unofficial successor of the Games Convention event that took place in Leipzig the last couple of…
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Living in a palm tree
Today I came across the Palm Fiction concept from German treehouse builder Baumraum. This luxurious tree house has a very futuristic look and could be build somewhere just a couple of meters from the sea. You can enter it by stairs, and while it looks pretty small, the cabin seems roomy enough inside. Additionally, the…
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New reviews on DV Hardware
It’s been a while since I last published something on my blog, but I’ve published quite a number of new reviews at DV Hardware in the last couple of weeks. Last month I wrote a review of some custom USB drives from PromoLocker with DV Hardware’s logo, this company provides good service and I like…
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The Financial Crisis explained in 11 minutes
Jonathan Jarvis did a great job at creating an easy to understand animation that explains some of the main causes of the credit crisis: Gold is back over $1,000 by the way. Too bad I didn’t pick up a couple of those glimmering coins a few years ago, that investment would have actually made me…
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CDOs made simple (video)
Just come across a nice video on YouTube that illustrates what CDOs (collateralized debt obligations) are: A CDO is a very complicated way to spread risk and many people in the financial industry didn’t fully understand the risk until it was too late. More and more companies are starting to get hit by toxic credits, earlier…