April, 11, 2001 archives

i suspect the real story about yahoo! selling porn is how it suddenly became news on the day they are reporting earnings. (note that they aren't really selling porn. they just host sites that do on yahoo! shopping, and have for two years.) is it suddenly going to become news that the credit card companies make money on porn because they collect transaction fees?

i've never really played around with one, but the blackberry from research in motion sounds quite impressive. and the company appears to be doing well, too. the initial designer of the palm did an amazing job in designing its pim functionality, because he focused very narrowly on that. the rim folks apparently did the same for wireless email. but that's why palm's wireless email isn't as good as rim's, and rim's pim functionality isn't as good as palm's.

let's see, borrow money to buy stocks, stocks go up, keep buying stocks, and then market dips. what a moron. the credit card companies are pretty despicable in their marketing, but they aren't exactly putting a gun to anybody's head. (and debtors anonymous? give me a break.) i'm not sure exactly how i acquired it, but my allergy to debt (particularly credit card debt) appears to serve me quite well.

this is a great story about an incredible day. they should make a tv show about this sort of thing.