Yeah, the dollar really is hitting record lows, sort of

I always get a little irked when I read an article stating that the dollar has hit a “record low” against the euro. The euro’s been around for less than a decade, and happened to come into existence at a time when the dollar was extremely strong. Record lows against it are meaningless. Of far [...]

Robert Scoble fails to solve my Google Reader problem

I use Google Reader to keep up with blogs that I think might be useful to me in my own blogging and columnizing. Actually, that’s being far too generous to myself. For days, sometimes even weeks at a time, I use Google Reader to keep up with the 16 blogs whose feeds I’ve subscribed to. [...]