Friday, October 27, 2006

What a googling mess!!!

As I shudder at the thought of Google's impending suit to rob me of all the nothing I have, for giving a rat's google about their ETL (English as a Trademark-junkies Language - oh wait, I better TM that)guide, I have to post this link of the write up by Michael Ferguson on Ask.com..

Now isn't this funny!!

http://blog.ask.com/2006/10/you_do_andor_ma.html#comments

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Congo - Stories of Courage, Strife and Intrigue

I was just impressed by this article on Congo. It was a first in many ways for me, least of which is the trivia for how we address people from Congo - Congolese.

It goes on into a story of courage of how an 18 year old kid is trying to send himself to college. Did me put me to shame.

The story then leads on into visa cards and banking in the country. Though it sounds like the ramblings of an attention - deficit author, it is still a good read.

I am blogging this so I can go back and read the story of that youth, again, and again!

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Publish a website, Get Sued!!!

Here are the links on how you should go about doing this:

The NY Post Article: http://www.nypost.com/seven/10112006/business/
rodman_sues_ex_analyst_over_web_site_business_roddy_boyd.htm

The Matt Murrey Website: http://www.researchindependence.org/

So if I copied the contents of Matt's website, do I get sued as well? Do I dare and find out? I am itching to dare....

Sunday, October 01, 2006

What is the world's largest private equity fund?

You are close if you thought it was Blackwell. We do have KKR that is coming up. Lacking the private tally, they are valued at USD 16.5bn.

So what is a private equity fund you may ask?

This refers to the holding of stock in unlisted companies – companies that are not quoted on a stock exchange. It includes forms of venture capital and MBO financing.

Re: http://www.altassets.net/hm_glossary.php#MBI


The same page will tell you what an MBO is...