Remember those ultra shorts I talked about in December? Today while the market was being taken out to the woodshed for a spanking, my shorts were kicking ass!
Dow -3.29%
NASDAQ -3.86%
DXD +7.46%
QID +9.08%
I was premature to short the market in 2006, but I believed in my thesis [...]
This morning I set out early to tackle the 16.5 mile desert hike D-12 Trip 3 (Arroyo Tapiado / Arroyo Diablo Loop) in Afoot & Afield in San Diego. However due to some very poorly written directions by author Jerry Schad, I wondered around the desert looking for the famous mud caves for almost 2 [...]
On my way to the desert today, I ran smack into the middle of a snow storm near Pine Valley.
Just finished reading an outstanding book called The World is Flat - A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (expanded 2006 version) by Thomas Friedman. As a web developer that came of age at the dawn of the web, I was impressed with the how well he researched the effect of technology has had on [...]
Last year coffee giant Gloria Jeans asked me if they could reprint my Coffee and Dieting article in their customer newsletter. Forgetting the awful coffee I bought from them in my Florida days (1994-1998), I said yes on the condition that they mail me a copy of the newsletter when it was published.
Did they honor [...]
The most popular page (by far) on my technical site Digital Colony has been the Mask Email Generator page. There are 2 tools. The first one helps hide your email address by using ASCII codes so those sneaky spiders have trouble finding email addresses inside the source code of a web page. The second tool [...]
After regrouping from this mornings failed hike, I headed much further east for a different hike along the Mexican border. Afoot & Afield in San Diego lists 3 hikes in the Jacumba Mountains which is where San Diego County meets Imperial County along the Mexican border.
Trip 1 and 2 both have the same starting [...]
This morning I went down by the border to hike Otay Mountain (West Approach). This is hike M-10 Trip 1 in Afoot & Afield in San Diego. When this book finally comes out with an updated edition (April 2007), I don’t think this will be listed anymore.
Otay Mountain just happens to be near [...]
Last May I bragged about how unemployment was leaning me out. Throughout the summer I got more and more fit. By December I was closing in on a single-digit body-fat percentage. Should have taken my glamor photos at that time.
Then I did something stupid.
I got a job and my activity level dropped. The job was [...]
On a whim I decided to get my haircut exactly like the guy beside me at the barbershop. He was a Marine officer and had a high and tight. My hair hasn’t been that short since Army basic training 1987.
Then I noticed something interesting. People started acting more polite to me. Everyone started [...]
