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Finance

Buy and Hold, Sell at 273%

Buying stocks under radar, holding them and selling them at double or tripple value years later… that’s how earning money with stocks work – at least for me

Finance

Ebay Profit surges

good idea having bought ebay – profit surges

Business news

Publishers complain About Google's book digitizing project

Google's plan to digitise thousands of out-of-copywright text books came under fire yesterday from a group of leading US publishers. The AAUP made up by 125 academic publishers complained and ask Google a series of questions regarding its claim to…

Business news

Art.com and Allposters merged

Two art and poster internet giants merged to form probably the largest company one can imagine selling a few million products. With the few ten-thousands affiliates combined they soon approach a size of the Amazon affiliate system I guess.. They…

Security

Phishing and Pharming fined with 5 years and $250,000

US Democrat Patrick Leahy, has introduced a new federal anti-phishing bill that would impose jail terms up to five years and fines up to $250,000 for criminals creating fake web site designed to con consumers in to giving them their…

Tools

Tortoise CVS version control plugin 1.6.14 released

TortoiseCVS 1.6.14 is released as well as an unstable test version of TortoiseCVS 1.7.3 mainly bug fixe changes: ... especially the bug "CVS/Repository content is invalid" sound like hard-core… guess we will roll out this version in my project tomorrow…

Projects & Management

Time-Savers for Bloggers

Dave has a nice article about saving time for bloggers… some rather practical, but then straighforward ideas that are targetted to minimize information overload blur as I would call it Read less. Read what you do read less often. Filter…

Business news

Unix source on 1 million pieces of papers

Sam points me to news about SCO. SCO has decided to deliver the Unix source code said to be copied to IBM on 1 million pieces of paper… I guess they need time :-) funny anyhow….

Projects & Management

MS Project 2000 Tutorial

vsbabu thinks about creating and MSP 2000 tutorial… mhhh… I guess I might enjoy a pragmatic one with do's and don'ts and templates and import/export tips/tricks and real-life samples…...

Oracle

It's over now...

As I said in Oracle OTN links to my weblog – Oracle linked to my weblog. But I guess my criticism on Toplink, the visions I had about Longhorn's default RDMBS on every desktop and some other statements didn't amuse…

Oracle

What is the rule based optimizer ? :-)

An obvious lucky visitor asked Google what is the rule based optimizer ? and came to my 10G post … well – yes – i guess outside the Oracle world people don't really are able to/have to tweak the SQL...