Fun ‘n games on a Sunday afternoon
Let’s see…
Nobody would buy Lehman, so it’s on a bankruptcy watch.
Bank of America, after turning down Lehman, is in talks to buy Merrill Lynch (my favorite new name: “Lynch America”).
AIG–the insurer of all those humongous multi-level mortgage bond marketing schemes–is “looking for capital“.
Somebody named Bob Brinker apparently said something like “get all your money out of Washington Mutual”.
(Update: A good quick round-up of the weekend’s financial shakeups.)
All the big news sites are still talking about Ike (which, thank heavens, wasn’t quite as bad as it could have been). The financial stuff is only a sidebar, and only one of those items is being discussed.
So tell me, who’s the economy wonk on McCain’s team and on Obama’s team? Whoever it is had better be prepared for a long, hard ride…
SiteMeter moved to a new system. My problems with it…hmmm…1) It won’t “remember” me as logged in; 2) every time I try to load the stats in the new system using IE7, I get an endless “Loading Reports…” screen (though it works in Firefox); 3) hitting the “Refresh Stats” button sends me back to the home page, no longer logged in. I’ve already sent through one help ticket and am contemplating sending in another, so I go to the SiteMeter website I have open, hit “Refresh Stats” just to see if anything happens, and I get a “404 not found” error. So I go back to the SiteMeter homepage, and what do I see?
Whoops!
Aw, man, it must suck to be on the SiteMeter development team right now…Just like it must suck to be in that high-level group of financiers that was called into a weekend-long emergency meeting by Paulson.
OmegaDad’s four-ganger box for the regular light timer, the heating lamp thermostat, the ventilation fan thermostat, and Something Else is too small. (This is in the Junior Coop.) He is irritated.
The good news? The “Alaska Women Reject Palin” protest in Big City was apparently very well attended.
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