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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone! Hope you all had a good time during the first couple of days of 2009. The year 2008 has come to an end and unfortunately it wasn’t really a good year for me business wise. I was too lazy to finish most of the goals I set for this year, 2008…
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Windows 7 beta leaked, looks good
As you may have heard by now, the first beta version of Windows 7 has been leaked on the Internet. Windows Vista shipped in November 2006 and the next version of Microsoft’s operating system may arrive a lot sooner than most people anticipated because, too put it mildly, Windows Vista didn’t really manage to capture…
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“If you were dead, they’d still give you a loan”
NY Times published an interesting story about the criminal lending practices of WaMu that resulted in billions of dollars worth of bad loans, you can read it over here. Shaky loans were big business for banks like WaMu; lending to people who weren’t credit-worthy resulted in big bonuses but had very nasty consequences for the…
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Bought a couple of books
Carmen and I went to Boekenfestijn in Ghent today, a free fair where you can find more than a million of books at bargain prices. Here’s a look at some of the things I picked up: – Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring paperback edition – Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers…
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10 outrageous economic claims for 2009
Saxo Bank has published a list of ten outrageous economic claims for 2009. The Danish investment bank says this is their annual attempt to predict rare but high impact events that are beyond the realm of normal market expectations: The Copenhagen-based online trading and investment specialist’s predictions are an annual attempt to predict rare but…