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As much as some people hate construction, I love seeing cranes downtown. Look at any pictures of China, or even the UAE, and you’re bound to see cranes building something. Whether or not they’re appropriately using resources isn’t the point. The fact is that they’re building – not just resting on history and what-not.
So, seeing this news in today’s PD gets me pretty pumped. Not only does the name “Jacobs” remind me of a winning baseball team, but it’s a good sign that one of the better busisnessmen in the area thinks building would provide benefit.
Plus, we could use some buildings that do not have boards on the windows. That’s always a plus.
I know…rare is it that I double-post, but this Friedman piece is worth checking out, regardless of partisanship.
No doubt that energy policy is going to be a HUGE component of the whole ‘platform’ this summer. Especially each week that you find yourself at the gas station, filling up you premium-gassed guzzler. I really have to sit back and decide for myself what I think is the best.
At first, Hillary’s “tax the big guy” stance seemed adequate. But Friedman puts that in a different light.
No, no, no, we’ll just get the money by taxing Big Oil, says Mrs. Clinton. Even if you could do that, what a terrible way to spend precious tax dollars — burning it up on the way to the beach rather than on innovation?
The McCain-Clinton gas holiday proposal is a perfect example of what energy expert Peter Schwartz of Global Business Network describes as the true American energy policy today: “Maximize demand, minimize supply and buy the rest from the people who hate us the most.”
Keep in mind that Friedman was in Bill Clinton’s cabinet – so he’s not exactly Hill-bashing here…
Just food for thought.
What do the Cavaliers and Hillary have in common? Both needed a game-changer yesterday, yet both fell short.
…Well, at least Cleveland, Ohio.
While it appears that the move to hand out “Crybaby” t-shirts looked good on paper, I’m willing to bet that any backlash this week will lead to one less branch manager in the D.C. area this week.
And I must say that while I personally won’t be going to a Papa John’s any time soon – it’s just not convenient given my location – a complete boycott likely isn’t the best idea.
I’m too big of a proponent of Cleveland-based business to put up any sort of fight against success around here. It simply was not a good business move on the D.C. guy’s part. And I have a feeling The Man will let that be known. I’m sure there’s more to come. Now if we could just get the Plain Dealer to link or drop a URL instead of saying “bloggers….”
Sigh.
While I assume this is just an error in the financial systems, someone may be the proud new owner of some LEH at the discounted price of $2795. Those decimal points can be tricky…
But I guess it could always be worse.
The writers may be back at work following their extended (and very justified) holdout, but that doesn’t mean all is well out there.
Internet auction giant Ebay has apparently ticked off a few of their key sellers by altering a few of the fees among other functional changes – and the sellers are fighting back. While this plays out very well for smaller auction companies, its also great to see that it is actually providing results; as seen in the 13 percent drop in listings.
Drops in listings will provide drops in profits, so as the users unite, the Giant gets kicked in the shins. Whether or not anything happens from this is to be seen. Just like those that like to send emails out about not getting gasoline on certain days, for example, fail to realize that sometimes, you just have to do certain things. Whether or not EBay users are willing to forgo all of the hard work that has gone into getting their “ratings” and “Power Seller” status to sell things at another site is the big question.
As much as people like change in the technology world, I’m willing to bet that this one won’t be long – even if it is “extended” for now.
Ugh, this week has been atrocious. I’ve been meaning to vent on this for a while, so you may just want to ”x-out” if you’re easily bored with tech-type stuff.
As a Blackberry user, I was a bit perturbed by the system outage that occurred last spring, forcing a large gap in email reception – followed by a barrage of all the emails that I had missed over the course of those few hours. Of course, major periodicals were all over Research in Motion (RIM) for not having the capacity to support the growth of their product.
Well all of this leads to this past Monday while I was on my way home from work. While the majority of the emails that I receive on my 8703e get deleted immediately – thanks to SI.com putting direct links to one of my email addresses on each of my pieces – there are a few that get digested. One of which comes from the Motley Fool regarding the past day in the market. It usually arrives around 5p… at least it did.
Apparently, there was another outage that occurred around 3:30 EST that knocked out about half of the users. As my luck would have it, I was in that “half,” so any emails that were sent between the outage time and whenever it ended did not end up getting to me until about 7:00p EST.
Thankfully, I’m not that important (yet), so those emails that I didn’t immediately get weren’t exactly time-sensitive. But for the million or so people who also use this service that may have a little more leverage placed on the device cannot be happy either.
Reports are already circulating that RIM is doing what needs to be done to bolster its infrastructure, but I just wish that these companies would be a bit more proactive in their innovations instead of using them to react to problems. But who am I kidding?
