Excuses

They (the blog police) say never to post about how you haven’t been posting, not paying attention to your site, letting it fall in to disuse like some sad, sad Blockbuster in a strip center. Neglect, of the criminal variety so to speak.

Well shit man, I’ve been busy. We got us a merger, I’ve got me a new professional portfolio site I’m trying toget off the ground and, oh yeah I’m throwing a little party on September 10.

That said, in the next month or so we should see a return to normal, spleen venting.

In the Details

A diagram of one of the most poorly thought-out assault crafts ever conceived.

Estonia

In their effort to join the EU, Estonia, unlike Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Greece, did something odd – when faced with deficits and lower tax income, they voluntarily shrunk their own economy.

Blackouts

Market speculation anyone?

Back in 2006, the state passed a rule gradually relaxing the system-wide offer cap from $1,500 dollars in 2007 to $2,250 in 2008. From December 2010 to Jan. 15 of this year there was a temporary cap of $180 a megawatt hour. On Jan. 15, the cap went back to $2,250 dollars. Then, at midnight on Tuesday, Feb. 1st, the cap rose to $3,000 dollars. Around 5 a.m. Wednesday, 29 hours later, prices approached the $3,000 cap. With a few brief retreats, they stayed at or near the cap for the next six hours.

“I do find it curious that very soon after the cap was increased, we hit it for really a very remarkable stretch of time,” Brewster said.

So 50 Power plants go offline the day after the market cap reaches it’s all time high. Yeah that’s not fishy in a deregulated market.

The Force

This TV Spot has almost nothing to do with the car being sold, and yet…