While I struggle to get my hands on a single bottle of the stuff to drink, 1 Wine Dude is actually in Cahors France (for the International Malbec Days festival going on) tasting and pondering on the Cahors marketing push. The dude concludes (emphasis his): > Ignoring the discussion of whether or...

Christian no longer crossposts here, but he’s still an investor geek, blogging great stuff over at his blog at devspace.com. Here are a few articles I found interesting: Why “You Should Have Known Better” Does Not Cut It! Why The Republicans are Wrong To Block the SEC! Why We Are Not Buying...

Via blog.xplana.com: Personally, I think this is a little conservative… though kids and professors on campuses would probably know more about how motivated professors are to switch to digital textbooks. What I do know is that no one likes spending $100 for a textbook and my professors were always...

Not sure how long WordPress has been doing this, but there is a check for duplicate comments. If the same user/email posts the same exact comment on the same post, the user will get a message like: > Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that! This is great actually,...

A client contracted us to make some updates to the StudioPress Lifestyle WordPress theme. I’m documenting the changes here so our client can possibly do this work themselves in the future, and it may also help others out there looking to tweak the StudioPress (or really any) premium theme. Changing...

- Praxis Lodi Viognier 2007 - [](http://www.winelog.net/images/wines/cGhwUnhmNlZNMTI3NjUyOTkwNQ==.jpg) Credit: WineTasting.com - Region: Lodi, California - Winery: Praxis Cellars - Type: White Wine - Variety: Viognier - UPC: 647884992030 - Find Prices at SuperWineSearch - 3 Loggers 3...

Great overview and background on Gold as a Commodity over at Crossing Wallstreet. The summary for current investors is… My view is that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates earlier than expected. I don’t know exactly when that will be but it will put gold on a dangerous path. For now, my...

From DealBreaker.com (via CrossingWallStreet): Goldman Sachs just revealed in an SEC filing that its traders made money on every single trading day last quarter, a record for the firm. Net revenue for trading was $25 million or higher in all of the first quarter’s 63 trading days with 35 of those...

After a couple hours, I’ve tracked down and fixed a bug I was having with some of our WordPress plugins. I believe that there are a few people out there having the same problem. I think there may be another solution online, but it is one of those issues that is difficult to pare down to a good...

There is a great QA with Herb Greenberg over at TheKirkReport. A few snips from the article: … Kirk: For good or for ill, how do you see financial journalism evolving with the use of blogs and other social media? Herb Greenberg: The good: Leveling the playing field with an enormous amount of...