Archive for June, 2009
You Give Oil A Bad Name
Seriously. The Russian giant oil firm Gazprom is forming a joint venture with the Nigerian state-run oil company, NNPC. The new firm will be called Nigaz. Way to do some branding research first.
June 30, 2009
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Flying and Child Safety Seats
There is a thread currently going on at Flyertalk, my favorite website, about whether or not to mandate child safety seats for small children, who currently travel in their parent’s lap. The reasoning is that in any heavy turbulence, a parent may not be able to hold the child, thus putting that child in danger. [...]
June 30, 2009
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Fine Print is Too Overwhelming
A story in the New York Times describes the ordeal of the Bendor family, who purchased a cruise and travel protection from a company called Vantage Deluxe World Travel. The travel protection plan would protect them if they needed to cancel for any reason. When the father in the family had a heart attack before [...]
June 29, 2009
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Kennedy-Dodd Health Care Bill: Why Even Bother?
The Congressional Budget Office release very preliminary numbers on the Kennedy-Dodd health care bill. The plan, which is mostly supported by Democrats, and mostly supported by President Obama, still lacks details. The upshot of the plan, from my skimming of the bill, is that it would require everyone to purchase health insurance, it would require [...]
June 28, 2009
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New Look
In honor of the weather finally getting warm, we have changed the look of the site. After several years of using the Chameleon theme, we have decided to modernize things by changing to the Emerald Stretch theme by Nikolaj Masnikov. All of the old functionality should be there, just with a new look.
I hope [...]
June 26, 2009
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