Thank You Google!

My stock portfolio had a nice win yesterday thanks to Google’s increase in stock price of 12% yesterday after their earnings call. I am going to hold onto it as I think Google has some awesome product announcements coming up, including:

  • Self driving car technology being licensed to auto manufacturers
  • Wearable tech devices being taken to market (Google Glass, watch)

And of course they have several highly successful business units including:

  • Search
  • AdWords
  • Apps

American People Scammed

Governments usually extort money from their populace as a standard practice. However, the US government is now getting extreme about the practice. The federal government shut down for over two weeks and all employees stayed at home relaxing, watching TV, playing XBox, going on vacations, etc. Now that the shutdown is over, all of those employees are going to be paid JUST AS IF THEY WORKED THE ENTIRE TIME.… read more “American People Scammed”

Online Education

I love online education! Even the informal education. For example, right now I am working on a script that will set a cookie based on a visitor’s referrer and then switch phone numbers that appear on the page based on that. I am referencing about 30 different websites each with slightly different views into various topics and patching together my code.… read more “Online Education”

Peyton Manning

Peyton Manning already has a hall of fame career, but starting this season with 16 touchdowns in 4 games with 0 interceptions puts him on a whole different plane. He is looking like the greatest player to ever pick up a football at this point.