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Hat tip to Patti, my cousin, for this classic.

Written last Friday.

Did I get this right? The financial markets are too tight, which is causing financial institutions to fail and making it difficult for legit business to borrow money? Bernake than asks Bush for this bail out package. The market crashes as we are too late to fix the problem. Then they lower key interest rates 0.5 points? If Bernake knew their was a problem, then why didn't he lower the rates earlier? Federal reserve bank rates control liquidity in the market. If money was tight, then why not lower rates before it's too late. The federal reserve didn't lower interest rates in the 5 months leading up to the bailout. Obviously he knew the problem existed last week, that's why he asked for the bail out. This is equivalent to asking your boss for a raise because you've been losing too much money betting on sports.

Disney did it again! Took my kids to watch it tonight. They loved it. And it's true quality, Disney style.

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/highschoolmusical3/

The scene. I'm discussing smoking with some friends. They were recently in Vegas and supposedly they allow smoking in casinos in Vegas, yet smoking laws outside of casinos in Nevada are nearly as tough as Toronto (where I live). "They'll never ban smoking in Vegas casinos," says Mr. X. "If they banned smoking in casinos, then they would lose tons of business."

Less I forget, we are sitting at a sports bar in Brampton. Ten years ago, in this same bar, somebody surely said that sports bars would die when they passed the law that banned smoking in restaurants. I hang at a lot of sports bars and ten years ago everybody was claiming their local sports bar would go broke when they banned smoking within. This bar was full. Very much not bankrupt. I wondered if this guy remembered everybody claiming that sports bars would die, if the smoking law was passed.

Do they actually allow you to smoke in casinos in Vegas?

The guy that wins the most hands does not necessarily win the tourney. The guy that wins the chips, wins the tourney.

The first 30 minutes of the conference was actually really good and I even learned some things. Then came the sales pitch. Two hundred dollars for an account and 25 dollars per month. But we'll give the account for 25 and waive the first month fee. Almost everybody took the hook, paid them 25 dollars and subscribed to paying 25 more per month (cancel at any time). Going into the conference nobody knew what they might be buying. Quite a sales job. I almost paid 25 myself.

Further they signed up for the follow-up conference where they already prepared them for a 3600 promotion package. I'm sure the 2nd package will only cost 500 dollars. What a discount. Gotta buy it.

Today, I swept thru all my websites and removed any broken images and links to Rmail. Rmail was a website I sold to NBC more than a year ago. In the last couple weeks, NBC decided to shutdown the website and their rebranding of the site called SendMeRSS. There's still thousands of links left, but they are less important than the thousands I've removed. Hopefully, the end of this horror story is near.

While the rest of the world struggles with the credit crunch, Silicon Valley laughs all-the-way to the bank with massive cash reserves.  Hat tip to my friend Lucius for the link.

http://valleywag.com/5063428/the-10-richest-tech-companies

Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on SNL. Amazing resemblance. Sarah is the leading candidate for the next Republican nomination.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/palin-hillary-open/656281/

In a recent interview on ESPN Radio, the interviewer asked Sidney Crosby about his girlfriend forum on my Talk-Sports website. Crosby denied any knowledge of the website.

You can listen to the interview at the following link. The reference is at 19:30 or thereabouts of the interview.

http://myespn.go.com/s/conversations/show/story/3632697

But that's not good enough for most people. They would rather screw with easy and break it. The last four places I've been that had wireless Internet, had broken wireless Internet. Why? Because simple isn't good enough. Even though it works out of the box, most people will screw with it until it doesn't work anymore.

I love Wifi, because I can do more work in more places. I hate Wifi because it's more often broken, than not. Why? Because people can't stand easy, they rather screw it up. Do you run a wireless access point? Tell me.