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Extra-ordinary. 9.58 seconds for 100m, and Usain Bolt just got better. Quite astonishing, as the Jamaican won the race by 0.13 seconds from Tyson Gay (who himself smoked a PB by six hundreths of a second)! I have no doubt that in the coming days, we'll start to...

The S&P 500 finished this past week down a relatively minor 0.63%, while the Nasdaq plotted its second consecutive weekly doji, finishing 0.74% in the red. Though bears continue to look for a significant pullback, the indices have instead been consolidating laterally,...

The idea that people don’t trust government, the banks, and the Federal Reserve, and yet will send money to “gospel of prosperity” preachers spouting spurious claims of causality is somewhere between blackly comedic and deeply depressing. Stephen Biellier, a long-distance...

A few months ago, I did a little experiment with a “Hello World” application. Working here at Symbian, it was interesting to get a taste of the development experiences across a couple of other platforms. Of course, what you can learn by writing a “Hello World”...

Talk about a “new vertical.” Nintendo, the most ambitious of the bunch, actually got its start making playing cards in 1889, before becoming a dominate force in video games 100 years later with the help of a rotund plumber named Mario. Now the company wants to...

The comment box that is presented at the end of postings in this blog is only 36 characters wide. That doesn’t make for easy entry of meaty comments. I’d like to make the box wider. I’ve had a quick look at the WordPress settings, but I don’t see anything that...