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Martin Armstrong: The Goldman Sachs Conspiracy -- the real dark pool   21 Jul 09
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Enjoy :-)

www.scribd.com/doc/17502333/The-Goldman-Sachs-Conspiracy-The-Real-Dark-Pool

Why it's difficult to be an EUntrepreneur   20 Jul 09
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Good article by Ramine Darabiha, CEO of mysites.

ramine.net/2009/07/20/euntrepreneur-or-why-its-difficult-to-be-an-internet-entrepreneur-in-europe/

Interview from mysites developer Sven C. Koehler on distributed development   20 Jul 09
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MySites is the breed of startup where the entire team is spread all over Europe.

What’s your experience with distributed development?

  Compared to team work in an office, working together over the Internet
  tends to be more loose, as people work on different schedules--It gives
  individual developers more freedom (work-life balance) and responsibility
  but also demands more self motivation and for managers it's harder to
  monitor progress.

What is your advice for distributed development teams?

  1. Work only with people that you can trust.
  2. Put your all your development computers on a hoster so they are
  directly accessible from the Internet.  This makes maintaining build
  environments much easier.  (For security reasons you should use ssh with
  private keys when accessing those computers.)  Make your computers
  clonable, so it's easy to give them a build environment when new
  developers join a team.

  3. Design the architecture of your software so that people can be the
  most productive without needing to wait for other developers.  (eg on
  MySites we separated the data aggregation and the GUI so that they are
  completely separate, data aggregation happens in Ruby and GUI
  representation is done in JavaScript)

  4. Use an encrypted platform like Skype for chatting and instead of doing
  phone calls

  5. Use 'screen -x' when working together with individual developers on
  their build environment.

Utility to configure Google Calendar as CalDAV calendars in iCal   18 Jul 09
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Simple and works. Events get propagated from iCal to google calendar and vice versa.

code.google.com/p/calaboration/

Mysites .. growing steadily   18 Jul 09
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Dear all. Sorry for the relative quietness, but we’re working hard on simplifying it. The Facebook connect is now implemented and thanks to all of you for the feedback.

We keep reinventing mysites to make it even more useful for all of us.

I never stop being surprised how diverse the usage of mysites is: irantoday or alexmytunes.

Samparkour reveals the city of Sao Paulo   26 Jun 09
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amazing short www.vimeo.com/3183877

Who travels with 134 billion dollars in a suitcase?   22 Jun 09
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On Thursday, June 11, 2009 Italian police of the Guardia di Finanza seized US$134 billion of United States bearer bonds at the border with Switzerland at Chiasso. The bonds include 249 Treasury bonds worth $500 million each, and ten $1 billion Kennedy Bonds. Bearer bonds are unregistered bonds that are redeemable by whoever is in possession.

curageousideas.blogspot.com/2009/06/134-billion-dollars-in-bearer-bonds.html

Are they fraud?

JSmineset writes: Governments in times of war counterfeit the opponent’s currency and government bearer bonds to balloon the money supply, inflicting injury by inflation. These instruments, even not in official figures, act the same as a massive increase in the money supply. $134 billion is not massive by today’s standards but how do you know this is the only suitcase? Nobody is that stupid with funds of this size, even if they are counterfeit. You can be sure there is more where this came from. The probability then is that the $134 billion is not all of it and might just be the tip of the iceberg.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearer_bond

Some images: images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=bearer+bonds&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=

A similar story from 2001: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1180171.stm

A lot of updates here: www.greenenergyinvestors.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=6834&view=findpost&p=113920

Wired article on e-gold   19 Jun 09
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www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/e-gold/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold

Home movie   12 Jun 09
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I will watch this with my baby daughter once she’s a bit older ..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbDmOt-vIL8&feature=fvhl

Hyperinflation injection: exploding money supply   12 Jun 09
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Article by Arthur B. Laffer: online.wsj.com/article/SB124458888993599879.html

 

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