E85 ethanol hits proverbial wall

Monday, August 28th, 2006

My local paper has an article today entitled “E85 drives itself into ditch.“  Appearantly, people are finally beginning to realize that E85 is not the bargain that everyone is making it out to be.  At current pricing, it is actually more expensive to drive with E85 than with regular gas.  The main reason for this [...]

How many job boards do we need?

Friday, August 25th, 2006

I just noticed that Om Malik’s new media giant GigaOM announced the release of GigaOM Jobs today.  My Lord!  How many job boards do we need?  Frankly, I’d rather not have to check 30 boards in order to find a job.  I certainly don’t want to check jobs.gigaom.com, crunchboard.com, jobs.problogger.net, and performancing.com/exchange just to find [...]

MT Senator opens mouth, inserts foot

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Montana Senator Conrad Burns is tasting the sole of his shoe today after comments he made about a roofer he employed in Virginia.
“The other day, the little fella who does our maintenance work around the house, he’s from Guatemala, and I said, ‘Could I see your green card?’” Burns said at a June meeting recorded [...]

FTC backs telecom companies

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

FTC head Deborah Platt Majores called the network neutrality bill in congress unnecessary.
I ask myself whether consumers will stand for an Internet that suddenly imposes restrictions on their ability to freely explore the Internet or does not provide for the choices they want
I really don’t see how these people see this in the way that [...]