TECHNOLOGY: SKYPE me (reinkefj) for free.

Thursday, February 1, 2007

http://www.skype.com/helloagain.html

SKYPE

***Begin Quote***

Call other people on Skype and it’s free – anywhere in the world.

***End Quote***

WordPress doesn’t make it easy. There’s nothing that I can put on the blog that will make it easy for you to tap one icon, get skype, install it if needed, call me, and talk to me free.

You can get it and install it. Then skype me as “reinkefj”, or “732-917-4816” is my skype phone number.

(Or you can Yahoo me at reinkefj or 609-489-5893!)

I’m just playing around and love to try technology.

Leave a Comment » | Technology | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj

MONEY: Could the negative savings rate be due to a hidden inflation?

Thursday, February 1, 2007

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ECONOMY?
SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&
CTIME=2007-02-01-08-56-21

http://tinyurl.com/3dh2ve

2006 Personal Savings Drop to 74-Yr. Low
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer

***Begin Quote***

WASHINGTON (AP) — People once again spent everything they made and then some last year, pushing the personal savings rate to the lowest level since the Great Depression more than seven decades ago.

***End Quote***

Now we know that the FED (The Federal Reserve Bank which is neither Federal, a Reserve, or a Bank) tells us there is no inflation. We know the politicians tells us there is no inflation. And, we know that we are not in the Jimmy Carter era of runaway 18% inflation.

But, could one explanation for the negative savings rate be that there is an underlying belief that cash is crap?

Why save if tomorrow will be worse than today in buying power?

Could we be seeing the marketplace discounting for an expected future inflation?

In a variation of the “Customer is always right”, the marketplace is always right.

If people are not saving, whatever the reason, they are “right”. Even when they are wrong, they’re “right”.

The cost of the war, the cost of social security, the cost of medicare, the cost of the drug benefit, the cost of all the social programs, and the cost of the TSA’s security kabuki dance is all going to come due.

Hmmm?

Leave a Comment » | MONEY | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj

FUN: The hedgehog with ‘global balding’ (2w3v84)

Thursday, February 1, 2007

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/
news.html?in_article_id=432937&in_page_id=1770

http://tinyurl.com/2w3v84

The hedgehog with ‘global balding’
Last updated at 21:38pm on 31st January 2007

A nice, soft fluffy coat is of little use to a hedgehog.

But poor old Glen is having to make do without any prickles – apparently thanks to global warming.

global warming

 

I’m not sure which is funnier. The poor animal who missed his nap. Or, the “climatologists” who have some more government programs and taxes to fix it!

p.s.: do pictures work?

Leave a Comment » | FUN | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj

FUN: SUDOKU on the AARP site will help you learn how to play

Thursday, February 1, 2007

http://www.uclick.com/client/mma/sudoc/

I’ve been playing a while. My personal opinion is I’m somewhere between “hard” and “evil”. My objective is to ward off dementia. Though some would say I’m already demented. I have shown many people that it’s really not a hard puzzle.

The AARP site allows you to turn on hints. That puts the possible combinations on the screen. You can then focus on the “rules” to find the right answer.

I only have one gripe. It’s not possible, or I couldn’t figure out how, to turn OFF a hint. If it thinks that 1 is possible for a cell and you KNOW by the rules that it isn’t there’s not way to nuke that little 1! Argh.

Otherwise, it is a good training site for learning.

On a technical note, the “put in all the values and start methodically erasing” technique has allowed me some success with the “evil” class of puzzle. But that’s for another blog posting.

Leave a Comment » | FUN | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj

RANT: The Most Important Author of the 20th Century

Thursday, February 1, 2007

http://questions.newsvine.com/_news/2007/02/01/
547368-the-most-important-author-of-the-20th-century
?threadId=72756&cmt=506878

http://tinyurl.com/yovwm2

The Most Important Author of the 20th Century

*** begin quote ***

Who is the most important author of the twentieth century? Why?

*** end quote ***

Ludwig von Mises

IMHO he “nailed” socialism, and the big government, as the complete opposite of liberty and freedom. He kick started the Austrian School of Economics which is the opposite of Keynes’ socialism big government control. He brought the issues to the fore and challenged that Government is the problem. The enemy of freedom and liberty. And, that only in the marketplace is every need best satisfied. In one fell swoop, he pinpointed the reason why socialism can never succeed. The entrepreneur investing his own capital is infinitely responsive to the buyer’s demands. If he fails, he pays a severe price.

“A bureaucrat differs from a nonbureaucrat precisely because he is working in a field in which it is impossible to appraise the result of a man’s effort in terms of money.” – Bureaucracy

Leave a Comment » | Technology | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj