Quite a week on Wall Street. I’m not sure where to start. Bottom line is that I think that we’re in a bull market. Any panic selling here is just a buying opportunity. A good chance to buy leaders. $$- IMHO. And warm weather means hot women in bikinis. Just sayin’…
- So, I’ve added a few things. First, more podcasting via audioBoo. You can subscribe in iTunes or via the RSS feed. If you want to. LOL. The updates will also show up in the sidebar, and elsewhere if the auto-updates work via Posterous. Yes, that is my real voice! No computer-enhanced shenanigans. I’ll mostly be chatting about the markets and tech stuff. Maybe about other stuff. We shall see.
- Just trying to embrace some of the social media ease of use that has crept in over the years. Time is always an issue. This year has been extremely hectic at the Fun Factory. So also keep an eye on Twitter (also in sidebar), as sometimes I just jot down thoughts during free time.
- Tonight I went to a River Cats game. That’s the AAA baseball franchise for the Oakland A’s here in Sacramento. Domestic drafts are $7, and Tecate was $9. Yowch. It was a pounding. 16-5 over the Colorado Sky Sox.
- More big earthquakes… Indonesia: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 rattled Indonesia's North Sumatra province Sunday, prompting a local tsunami watch, knocking out power and damaging some homes, officials said. With all the earthquakes in diverse places lately, not a bad time to check that earthquake insurance policy.
- Leaders of the 16 euro-zone nations agreed to assemble a fresh pot of money that could be used to rescue its troubled members, as a crisis spurred by Greece's fiscal woes spiraled well beyond its epicenter. Of course, they’re all harboring massive debt, too. Right?
- One of my favorite weekend vices is watching Leo Laporte’s The Tech Guy on Twit.tv. Kind of fun to watch the streaming as a lot happens during the commercials and hard breaks. Yes, I am a geek.
- No iPad yet. Those things are hard to find so far. On the list at the Apple Store, so it’s just a matter of time.
- BP’s attempt at placing a containment dome over the oil leak in the gulf failed. BP lowered a concrete-and-steel structure known as a containment dome almost a mile to the seafloor in an effort to stop the flow of oil from the drilling site. But gas hydrates, ice-like solids that form when methane gas combines with water under certain conditions, clogged the opening at the top of the dome, preventing oil from being funneled to the surface. What a flippin’ disaster.
- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates vowed Saturday to lead an effort to cut as much as $15 billion in overhead costs from the Pentagon's $550 billion budget and warned that without the savings, the military will not be able to afford its current force. Yeah, good luck with that cutting of overhead costs. It’s the government.
