February, 26, 2001 archives

bye bye etoys. wow.

just to play around with stock picks without actually risking any money, i've started a fake portfolio on the motley fool. maybe eventually i'll whip something up that will let me put it here and have a 'portfolio performance' thing on my page.

the first 'investment' is apple, which i mentioned the other day. in fact, i just went ahead and assumed i bought 50 shares of apple at feb 22's closing price (18.81).

it's pretty disappointing there's no isbn-like code for music cds. or at least not something it looks like retailers like cdnow and amazon both recognize. (more proof that the music labels are dumb.)

this is a pretty brilliant article about a guy housesitting in the loft that the founder of pseudo.com was living in.

progress restocking my mp3 collection: 28 artists, 37 albums, 459 tracks, 2.1gigs. almost out of room on my temporary mp3 drive. i really need to send the dead disk off the seagate so it can be replaced.