Bear Stearns Employees Bear the Bad News Sternly
Well hopefully it won’ be as bad as they reports are saying. A couple of my wife’s classmates have signed with Bear Stearn for summer internships, so hopefully the merger will either not involve tons of layoffs, or at least take through the summer to start. That said, it still wouldn’t bode well for the interns. Regardless, only time will tell for the interns and the employees….
The cheerful sound of bagpipes floated over from the jubilant Saint Patrick’s Day parade a block away on Fifth Avenue. But for the beleaguered employees of Bear Stearns, they may just as well have been playing a funeral dirge.
Coming Soon from VW: A 69.9 MPG Diesel Hybrid
It’s official – Volkswagen is unveiling a hybrid to challenge the mighty Toyota Prius. And not just any hybrid, but a diesel-electric hybrid it says will deliver 69.9 mpg. This is the Hybrid I’ve been waiting for! Can’t wait till it is released and comes State-side.
Answers sought in Fla. blackout
Energy experts are trying to figure out today why a small malfunction shut down a major nuclear power plant and knocked out electricity to one-sixth of Florida’s population. The good news is that the safety features at Turkey Point worked as designed preventing a larger problem.
Eskimo village sues over global warming
A tiny Alaska village eroding into the Arctic Ocean sued two dozen oil, power and coal companies Tuesday, claiming that the large amounts of greenhouse gases they emit contribute to global warming that threatens the community’s existence. The city of Kivalina and a federally recognized tribe, the Alaska Native village of Kivalina, sued Exxon Mobil
Microsoft jumps on the open bandwagon
According to a wordy press release issued by the company, the Redmond giant will begin embracing an open attitude by publishing documentation for all of its “high-volume product” APIs free of charge, will detail patents it holds and applications that cover its protocols… at first thought “is it April first already”… but then again, they could be having the tech version of a mid-life crises.. they already have the sports cars…. so the next this to do is to jump in bed with open source… oh wait they did that too with the agreement/deal with Novell… I think the truth is that they are finally realizing there image problem after the fall out with the Yahoo announcement… the blogosphere exploded with dislike and distrust for Microsoft. Heck I’m one of them, I’ve already started migrating some of my services away from Yahoo. The other problem is that they are loosing developers to web apps since developers are tired of having to fight for information. In todays developer environment, if the docs aren’t open and available… we’ll look elsewhere for a solution… and solution there are and they are out there….
Newman wins thrilling Daytona 500
Another thriller, another heartbreak at the Daytona 500. The 50th running was as great as always. Stewart will get his eventually… But that all said, it was a great race, and those Toyotas.. well I think we’ll be seeing a lot of them this year in the winner circle. But yesterday was for Newman and Penske. Newman’s win gave Roger Penske (a standard in the name of racing) his first Restrictor Plate win and his first Daytona 500 win.
8 killed in Md. drag-racing crash
Illegal drag racing claims more lives, this time the fans. While I’m always sorry to hear about peoples loss, in some cases you have to think of Darwin. “Survival of the fittest” is now “survival of the smartest”. Typically it is the drivers of the racing cars that end up dead, but this time… the spectators took the hit. So who is to blame, the car who accidentally plowed into the crowd, the drivers who raced off, or the spectators…. in this case, the spectators desire to see the event are the reason the drivers were racing. So I think…. well I’m not going to pass judgment, I just hope that those involved in the illegal event think twice next time.
Yahoo exploring alliance with News Corp.
Yahoo exploring alliance with News Corp.
Business Week is reporting possible talks with NewCorp to ’save’ Yahoo… well I don’t which I’d rather have… Microsoft or Murdoch… either way… some how I see myself departing from Yahoo.
NASCAR’s Busch and Stewart on probation – CNN.com
Season hasn’t even started and players are already going at it. Busch and Stewart have been placed on probation for the first 6 weeks of the season which starts this Sunday the 17th in Daytona.
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Wired: Garbage In, Garden Out: Inside the High Tech Trash Disassembly Line
Now here is a concept… why we try to separate the two entities is beyond me… it is all ‘trash’ some is just more useful than others… actually it is all re-usable. Maybe the term shouldn’t be recycle and refuse centers… maybe is should be ‘waste reuse centers’ or something… anyways I like this plant… it separates recyclable material (materials that can be reprocessed and used again) and then makes use of other materials in what ever way it can, in particular energy generation, and not only for themselves but the neighboring grid. Now I know the price tag is pretty big, but somehow I just think that we’d see the benefit long before we saw the cost.
So anyone want to take bets on if we will ever see a plant like this in the US?
April 21, 2008 Posted by nickc321 | commentary, environment, news | | No Comments Yet