I’ve checked the statistics and it doesn’t look like I’ve lead anyone astray, thank goodness. Over the last month I’ve slowly come to the conclusion that it was wrong to recommend the Sylvania G-Meso Netbook. This unit has some serious problems in some key features. You can find better value elsewhere. Here are the problems: [...]

My Land Rover LR3 is in the shop for repair for a computer crashing problem (yes, oh the irony of that). Basically after driving awhile and perhaps tapping on the brakes all the idiot lights come on at once – transmission fault, brake fault and suspension fault. The suspension fault is actually the most worrisome. [...]

Well, I’ve often heard that when the stock market bottom occurs it will feel absolutely horrible to own stocks and even foolhardy to contemplate a new purchase. It certainly feels like that now. Its hard to summon the requisite optimism to even look at the market or even my stock screen at this point. But [...]

Man, its a good day out there in the blogosphere. Here is a great checklist for evaluating an investment from David Merkel.

ROI (or Return On Investment) is the bottom line when evaluating a stock holding or a business endeavor. If your primary reason for going to college is to have a higher salary than your hapless friend who became a plumber’s apprentice, then you may need to take a few additional math courses. This is one [...]

Well, the pain and suffering I went through to get myself down to the FOWA show in Miami was definitely worth it. I drove down to Miami after dinner on Monday night and stayed at the AWESOME DoubleTree Grand hotel that evening. (Thanks for the carboliscious cookie that was so not on my diet!) Up [...]

Image via Wikipedia My wife was deeply moved last night, attending the talk given by Greg Mortenson, author of . The work he is doing in Pakistan and Afghanistan is both heroic and important. I hear that the book is required reading among our troops in the region now. Its truly an inspiring story. My [...]

Image via CrunchBase One of the benefits of being a minor mover and shaker in the early days of personal computers is that I got to personally meet a number of people now considered legends. My path crossed with Bill Gates of Microsoft fame a number of times. I had a product named “Show Partner“, [...]

A Scott Hanselman tweat led me to a site with a lot of questions that serve to determine your Meyers-Briggs personality type. I came out as type INTJ. Hmmm, not sure if that resembles me or not. Certainly some of it sounds like an accurate description. What do you think? ECHO? Hello-lo-lo-lo? I signed up [...]

Its been a full month of market experience for my fledgling model portfolio – Timely Value. As a refresher, the timely value model portfolio invests in companies with good return on equity while not being over leveraged. The timely part comes from our use of MSN Money’s stock ranking system. For a far more complete [...]