Google Wave

Posted on Jun 16, 2009 in Blog Google recently introduced their new technology marvel Google Wave what will most likely be nick named Web 3.0 or something similar. Here is a 80 minute presentation that explains the phenomena: For those that don’t want to waste 80 minutes watching the video here are small excepts from LifeHacker: Inline Replies First the simple stuff. Google says Wave is what email would be if it were...
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Straight to your iPod – June 2009

Posted on Jun 14, 2009 in Music In this month’s music recommendations I’d like to talk about two of my favorite Icelandic albums in the last few years. Emotional from Trabant is the first one and is a varied mix of rock, pop and electronic music that comes together in a utterly brilliant album. Trabant’s songs all have a distinctive feel to them ranging from a overwhelming onset of warm...
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Terminator Salvation

Posted on Jun 13, 2009 in Movies I saw Terminator Salvation last weekend. The fourth Terminator movie takes place in the year 2018. Each of the previous Terminator movies has changed the future in different ways, each one creates a new timeline and it comes most apparent in this one. The original Judgement Day in T1 was in 1997 but following the changes to the timeline in T2 and T3 Judgement Day happened in 2004 resulting in the...
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Article of the week (24/2009): Billionaire Tax Felon Says UBS Lied in Pledge to Report to IRS

Posted on Jun 13, 2009 in Finance This week’s article is Billionaire Tax Felon Says UBS Lied in Pledge to Report to IRS by David Voreacos for Bloomberg. Following is a small excerpt: California billionaire Igor Olenicoff had already invested $200 million with UBS AG in 2001 when his Swiss bankers ushered him to an underground vault in Geneva. Olenicoff, a real estate developer with a taste for yachts and Russian art, saw floor...
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Article of the week (23/2009): The Crisis and How to Deal with It

Posted on Jun 7, 2009 in Finance This week’s article is The Crisis and How to Deal with It with Bill Bradley, Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman, Nouriel Roubini, George Soros and Robin Wells. Following are excerpts from a symposium on the economic crisis presented by The New York Review of Books and PEN World Voices at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 30. The participants were former senator Bill Bradley, Niall Ferguson,...
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Five Fingers

Posted on Jun 6, 2009 in Movies This week I saw Five Fingers starring Laurence Fishburne and Ryan Phillippe. I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this film before (it being from 2006) it’s just amazing. The movie is about a Dutch banker who goes to Morocco to sponsor and establish a food program for the needy but is captured along with his guide by local terrorists. He goes through horrible torture as the terrorist...
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