There has been much discussion about buyout of Bear Stearns by J.P. Morgan. CNBC has a video that pretty well sums up many people’s perception that the Fed showed preferential treatment towards Wall Street over the individual citizens amid the economic crisis. The media has a knack for revving up emotions for the sake of [...]
Author Archives: Dean Chen
New Site Design
I was amazed at the ease of use and powerful features geared towards web design that Adobe integrated in to Fireworks CS3 when I introduced it to my girlfriend last night. The multitude of brushes themselves, including all types of color changing confetti and “alien paint”, many of which respond to pressure from the pen [...]
Comcast Upload Timeout
I’ve been experiencing some network issues for the past few weeks. The upload for my Comcast cable internet connection would turn unresponsive for a short period of time, ranging from 2-10 seconds, every few minutes or so. This turned from an annoyance in to a huge problem after a week or so. I use Skype [...]
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Site Dugg
My previous post about AMD was dugg (made popular on the social news site http://digg.com, my home server took quite a hit but survived. My alexa ranking rocketed to 70,000 for a day or two. I’m putting together some stats right and will post later.
AMD’s Future is Dim with Phenom
AMD’s[AMD] latest flagship Phenom processor is an utter disappointment and marks the beginning of the end to the once successful company that dominated the enthusiast CPU market. AMD shares are at a 4 year low of $9.67 after another quarter with losses in the hundreds of millions[400 to be specific], with debts nearing 9 BILLION [...]