We wrote a post a couple of months ago about a new trend where parents would only select names for their baby if the domain name was available. Brad and Angelina must have be listening because within hours of giving birth to twins, a boy named Knox Leon Jolie Pitt and a girl named Vivienne Marcheline Jolie Pitt, the following domains were reportedly registered by their attorneys, Lavely & … [Read more...]

I have been out of the country for a little over a week, when on Sunday night, my computer for lack of a better term, took a crap. With software, no tech support and without being able to speak the local language it took several days, but I'm glad to report that my Dell is now back and operating. This is the third time that I have had to do a clean reinstall of Vista in the less than 7 … [Read more...]

A Chinese investment fund manager won a lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay. Zhao Danyang of the Hong Kong-based Pureheart China Growth Investment Fund won the auction, which ended Friday evening with a bid of $2,110,100. Buffett has been auctioning off lunches online for six years but began auctioning the lunches … [Read more...]

As most of you know, Big Brown failed in his attempt to become the first triple crown winner in 30 years on Saturday finishing last in the Belmont Stakes. In the three weeks leading up to the race, Big Brown's trainer, Rick Dutrow Jr., boasted that it was “a foregone conclusion” his horse would win the Belmont. Dutrow went as far as to insult the horse that looked like his main competition … [Read more...]

A couple of days ago we published a post about Yale University economist Robert Shiller predictions for the housing market, and today the government released new report showing that new home sales fell in March to the lowest level in more than 16 years. March sales came in at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 526,000, the Census Bureau report showed, down 8.5% from a revised 575,000 in … [Read more...]