============= Bitcoins — the future of money. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin In 2008, a mysterious Japanese mathematician described what he called “peer to peer electronic cash.” In 2010, a bitcoin network had been established. One early bitcoin transaction was a pizza for 10,000 BTC. Today, those 10,000 Bitcoins would be worth over a million dollars. In New York [...]
http://mijja.com We launched today with two recordable, interactive stories: Share on Facebook
This has been taking much of my energy lately. We just a few days from launching our first two stories. New technology. Old fashioned story telling. :) Share on Facebook
Thank you for the condolences I received on my previous post. I’m concerned, however, that this blog tends unfairly toward pessimism. Ayn Rand wrote that the government makes us all criminals because criminals are easier to control. In the U.S., the federal tax code alone is more than 24 megabytes in length, and contains more [...]
So for the past couple weeks, a friend of mine who works in a municipal level gov’t position has been telling me that everything’s fine, that he’ll call tomorrow and tell me when I can pick up documents I’ve been waiting for. His help has been completely selfless. I’m grateful, and want to be polite, [...]
Shopping is an amazingly complex and subtle activity. One of the (many) things which makes Amazon.com fantastic is that they’ve exhaustively imagined the activity and designed their arrays of services accordingly. Recognizing the complexity of the activity makes me feel better about having such a hard time. I ask for advice. With the hangers, I [...]
A situation as ironclad and immoveable as the mountains: “Don’t you understand me? Your vehicle is in the new database. We can only generate the document you need from our old database!” Share on Facebook
“The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has issued a loan of EUR 10 million to Ternopilmiskteplokomunenergo under full municipal guarantees under a pilot project to modernize Ternopil’s central heating system. The parties signed a relevant credit agreement in Kyiv on Friday. “The term of crediting is 13 years, the interest rate is 5.9% [...]
They were closed for an “archival day” but she had a connection and got us in to have a lady check our documents. The lady studied the one page document for a full minute, holding it close to her squinting face. “The problem is this: it needs to be translated and the translation needs to [...]
. . . everything that should be easy is difficult, and everything that should be difficult is easy. Share on Facebook
