The market crashed 500 points today, losing 4.4% of its value.
Henry Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury said, ” consumers should remain confident about the soundness of the American financial system.”
If that isn’t a sign to sell all of your financial assets and buy guns & food and a bomb shelter, I don’t know what is.‚ … read more “500 Point Market Crash”
I left last Friday (September 4th) after work to go on vacation to Lake Chelan with Nick Fitzer and his family. We stayed till Thursday (September 11th) at Wapato Point. I had an awesome time: wakeboarding, wine tasting, golfing, swimming & hot tubbing, and so on.
Justin White is a good buddy and former business partner (landscaping company my senior year of high school). I went down south and visited him and his preggo wife Natalie about a week ago and they were kind enough to get me pizza and play my favorite game Madden. Justin seems to be doing pretty well, he’s a manager at Fred Meyers now.… read more “Visiting Justin White”
In the last 30 days (August 11, 2008 through September 11, 2008), my blog has received 38,163 unique visitors who have viewed 56,665 pages of my site. Each visitor has spent an average of 1 minute and 24 seconds on my site, which means that people have spent 47,322 minutes/ 788 hours/32.86 days looking at my content.… read more “Facts on Joel’s Blog”
I found this post written by Sanjay on the commercial loans site detailing how to go about getting commercial lending funding. This information will be useful to apartment owners and other businesspeople of a like mind. Check it out!
I visited the place of my first corporate job yesterday to buy some nails and it brought back some memories; when I turned 18 I was a night stalker at Home Depot (also known as night-shift stock guy). I was the youngest guy on the crew at the Puyallup Home Depot by at least ten years, but I think the HR manager at that Home Depot wanted to see if she could cut costs by using cheaper, younger labor.… read more “Home Depot Horror”
I just got admitted to the Certificate Program in Advanced Web Application Development through the University of Washington Extension program! I will be able to learn a ton about building web applications and will be able to use the knowledge both at work and on my own projects. The Certificate Program in Advanced Web Application Development looks like it will be pretty tough and it lasts almost a year, but I think I will be a much better technology professional because of it.… read more “Certificate Program in Advanced Web Application Development at UW”
My first post for my blog from my new iPhone is now here. Sorry it is not more exciting LOL. I am writing this in bed while I listen to my music.
SQL is fun, but difficult to learn. I’ve been banging my head on a bunch of little problems for awhile and slowly solving them. I am trying to make a database driven web application (albeit a fairly simple one) and I am almost there, but I keep hitting on stupid little snags. Like not knowing how to work in Visual Studio.… read more “Learning SQL”