Monthly Archives: March 2009

Perfect example of why we should get rid of unions

Tweet My friend’s a baker in Safeway. Not the most glorious job in the world, but the fact and matter is, it’s a labor intensive job (her shift starts at 4:00 AM and ends at noon) and she’s very glad to have a job in this economy. I give her two thumbs up for her [...]

Bailout is an oxymoron

Tweet We’re going to modify loans and sometimes even just “forgive” some debt to those poor owners who apparently had no idea that they shouldn’t be buying $500k homes when they work as warehouse clerks for WalMart. What message does that send out when we’re asking China for a couple of hundred billion dollars in [...]

Poor Man’s Google Scrape Technique

Tweet How to scrape for links on Google using notepad.. This requires cygwin or some sorta shell interpreter with grep/sed capability. 1) Search for whatever you wish.  Make sure you get 100 results per page (under “advanced search”) 2) Copy paste the entire screen Ctrl+A  - this selects all text Ctrl+C – copies text onto [...]