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Friday, May 25th, 2012This is a great idea: The Gents Place Puts a Modern Twist on Barbering My introduction to the Gents Place was through a Facebook ad that offered a free cut, shampoo and hot towel treatment—a $35 value—in exchange for my name, phone number, e-mail address and preferred social network. Who could resist? While waiting for [...]
Will AT&T Capping Data Plans Affect You?
Friday, March 2nd, 2012Just read this morning that AT&T is ending its unlimited data plans. I was on the unlimited plan but never used that much data. This paragraph illustrates the issue: Carriers, such as AT&T and Verizon Wireless, have long chafed at having to spend billions of dollars to build and maintain networks only to watch Internet [...]
How Does $1.2 Billion Vanish?
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Have any of you been following the MF Global debacle? I have. At least what I have read in the Wall Street Journal (the latest here). It’s simply unbelievable. How does $1.2 billion in customer funds vanish? These are customer funds, mind you. As I understand it (if I’m wrong, please correct me), these customer [...]
Some Tidbits from MF Global’s Website
Friday, December 9th, 2011By now, you all are probably familiar with the MF Global story so I won’t go into the details here (if you’re not familiar, Google is your friend). For fun, I went to their website this morning just to see what it looked like. The first thing I noticed was this statement on their homepage: [...]
I Wish You the Best, Mr. Jobs
Thursday, August 25th, 2011I hate to see him go: Jobs’ Resignation Marks Storied Career.
Median Pay for Presidents at 185 Large Public Universities: $444,487
Monday, April 4th, 2011From today’s WSJ: As many state legislatures debate double-digit percentage cuts in higher-education funding, presidential pay could become a sensitive subject. In Austin, for instance, University of Texas Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa is asking lawmakers to limit proposed reductions in the state’s funding of higher education, even as his compensation was third highest, by total [...]
Warren Buffett’s Heir Apparent Steps Down
Thursday, March 31st, 2011Heir
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