Thursday, October 9, 2008

Luke Russert at Wake Forest University

A video by Luke Russert at Wake Forest University interviewing students about the upcoming election.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Mario Chalmers

I attended last night's Miami Heat Exhibition game versus Detroit. I searched around the Internet today and saw very few videos, blogs or ESPN/NBA.com coverage of the game, even the MiamiHeat.com website.

I did find the following blog:

http://nbaroundtable.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/game-time-miami-vs-detroit-2356/

Okay, yes it's only an exhibition game but after last season, I like may loyal Miami Heat fans was anxious to see some of our new players. The player that impressed me the most was Mario Chalmers, the rookie guard from Kansas.

After D-Wade intercepts the ball, he passes to Chalmers among several Pistons, who starts the break near mid-court, finds Wade on the right side who takes the ball just inside the three point line and brings it down for a thundering dunk.

With seconds remaining before halftime, Spokestra calls timeout and calls a play. Wade takes the ball and as the Detroit defense collapses, he dishes to Chalmers in the corner who shoots three and it is all net.

Overall, Miami has not had a point guard with Chalmer's ball handling skills and defense for sometime. Okay, he had several turnovers but he also had 2 steals. He picked one of the Piston's guards clean toward the end fo the game. He's a rookie, but in my opinion, he already looks comfortable on the floor. He'll make mistakes this season but with his play last night, I think Miami Heat Fans can look forward to seeing their new point guard play. Lastly, it's also nice to see D-Wade not have to worry about taking the ball up the court. With Marcus Banks, Quinn and now Shaun Livingston, there is is plenty of true point guards on the Miami roster.

Friday, October 3, 2008

The Great Schlep

Check out www.thegreatschlep.com site. A great example of the effectiveness of a simple micro site.



The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Florida Travel and Life - I did not subscribe - call 866-836-7885

I recently received a notice from Dinah Peterson, Credit & Collections Manager for Florida Travel & Life at www.floridatravellife.com - to the best of my knowledge, I did not subscribe to this magazine. The notice I received does not have their telephone number but their web address only. Their website does appropriately list their phone number 866-836-7885 but it would not be too difficult to think or "allege" that this might be a deceptive direct mail campaign. According to the customer service rep, they received a mail in subscription request on July 14, 2008. I have had a subscription to other national travel magazines and it sure sounds problematic. I really think these companies should be required to put a phone number on these bills or direct mail pieces and if they are buying a list and automatically subscribing me, that would be a horrible thing to do.

BTW, the invoice is for 21 issues for $19.97.

Monday, July 14, 2008

FDIC Troubled Bank List

If you are looking for the FDIC Troubled Bank list, the FDIC problem list or information about the 90 institutions on the FDIC Troubled Bank List, according to the FDIC site, this information is not published. The FDIC does publish a list of private companies that rate banks. See: http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/bank/index.html

This list contains two websites which provides free ratings.

BANKRATE.COM
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/safesound/ss_home.asp
Bankrate.com rates Bank of America a 3.
Bankrate.com rates Washington Mutual a 1.
(Ratings are 1 to 5 where 5 is the top rating).

BAUERFINANCIAL.COM (their site was non-operational)
http://www.bauerfinancial.com/btc_ratings.asp

The FDIC Failed Bank list contains the five banks that failed in 2008 which includes the IndyMAC Bank in Pasadena, California is located here:
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html

LIST OF LARGEST BANKS IN THE UNITED STATES
http://nyjobsource.com/banks.html

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Friday, June 27, 2008

Miami Heat Draft Pick - Mario Chalmers - Highlights

Here are some highlight videos of Mario Chalmers from Kansas, the 34th pick in the 2008 Draft.







Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Michael Beasley - Will he be the Miami Heat's draft pick?

Here's a video from YouTube.com I tried to post to Facebook.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

My NBC station on cable was out of service yesterday. I was pleased to
see that they displayed this error message.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Ashley Alexandra Dupre - Spitzer call girl Kristen

Okay, Eliot Spitzer's Call Girl Kristen has finally been identified as Ashley Alexandra Dupre. See the link to her MySpace page below. Her picture appears on the link below.

Her MySpace.com Page
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=354019160

Her Picture
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2008/03/eliot-spitzer-kristen-ashley-alexandra-dupre/

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Sptizer Prostitute Photo of Kristen, Emperors Club hooker

One of the top searched Google term on Tuesday, March 11th was "Kristen Spitzer". As the search continues for the photo of Eliot Spitzer's call girl Kristen, here is a picture I found. Is this the photo of Kristen, Eliot Spitzer's hooker? I searched the Internet and I finally found this photo of the Emperors Club prostitute Kristen, but I'm not sure it's authentic.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Photo of Spitzer Prositute Kristen


Are you looking for a photo of the Eliot Spitzer's prostitute or hooker Kristen, the Emperor's Club call girl. Have you googled "spitzer kristen" or "spitzer hooker" like thousands of others.

With a top news story like this one, I am always fascinated both how quickly information is found on the Internet as well as taken off it.

Here are some interesting links related to the Eliot Spitzer - Kristen story.

1. The Huffington Post - Screen Shots of the Website

2. www.emperorsclubvip.com -- from the Internet archives

3. Video of Eliot Spitzer's Wife Silda Wall Spitizer (Wikipedia Bio) - a graduate from Harvard Law School




4. A PDF File of the Eliot Spitzer complaint (sealed)

5. The Eliot Spitzer Affidavit on SmokingGun.com

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Thursday, January 31, 2008

What is a Mashup?

Here's a good example of what a mashup is!



This was shown at the 2008 Social Networking Conference in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.