July 2008

Foreclosure update from the deep Southwest: News is mixed

July 25, 2008

In June, more than 40% of the 7,840 home sales in the Phoenix area were purchases of foreclosures, says Arizona State University’s Morrison School of Management. Median price of the foreclosed properties was $169,890, compared to a median price of $218,000. A year ago, the median price on foreclosures was $225,900; for traditionally marketed houses [...]

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WordPress project, continued

July 25, 2008

Turns out there’s an easy way to strip code out of word-processed text before pasting it into a WordPress page. On the extended toolbar there are two icons: one with a little W and one with a little T. Little W is for pasting from Word; Little T is for pasting as plaintext. Click on [...]

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Dear Apple MobileMe team

July 24, 2008

An e-mail exchange, in the usual e-mail sequence: Dear Jeremy– Thank you for your response. I’m sure your entire team has been endlessly harassed! I appreciate the amount of work the Apple MobileMe team has had to do under stressful circumstances. The Quicken backup to MobileMe is now working, although I’m also backing up to [...]

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Rumors swirl at AMEX

July 24, 2008

Word on the street has it that American Express has already told employees to prepare for layoffs in the U.S. and in India. My informant says rumors on the inside allege layoffs will represent a substantial part of the workforce, possibly as high as 20 percent. This follows yesterday’s news that the company’s second-quarter earnings [...]

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A$k nicely, and ye shall re¢eive

July 23, 2008

Truth to tell, I didn’t even ask at the Safeway yesterday. I dropped by on the way home from work, not feeling on the top shelf and absolutely not feeling like cooking anything elaborate. There wasn’t much in the house for me to eat or anything at all for the dog to eat. Thought I’d [...]

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Dealin’ with the devil

July 23, 2008

Have you been following the “Debt Trap” series in the New York Times? Lordie! A couple of days ago they told the story of one Diane McLeod, who despite a modest lifestyle managed to sink so deep in debt she’s being evicted from her little two-bedroom home. The unholy combination of a divorce, a couple [...]

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