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Cool or Lame? Dude Proposes on iPad, She Says Yes

By kapauldo

TechCrunch reports today that Zach Iniguez proposed to his fiancee on an iPad.   He handed her the device and it played back photos of them together, etc.  I’ll withhold judgment.  What do you think?

AOL Lost $1.4M/day in Value on Bebo Acquisition

By kapauldo

AOL bought Bebo- the British version off Facebook - about 20 months ago.  The couple that built it got $500M.
Let’s do the math.  That was 20 months ago, which works out to about $43M a month in loss.  That is about $1.4 million a day.
Let me repeat this.  AOL lost $1.4M a day in value [...]

Health Care Reform Is All About Dominion

By kapauldo

As the health care reform saga continues, your government has just announced that the current bill will reduce the deficit by $100B.  Some opponents of the bill think it’s not strong enough (a.k.a. a strong public option).  Others think it’s socialist.  Still others just want to oppose everything the president does (we really need to [...]


Smart Phones Don’t Have Number-Letter Combos, Dummy

By kapauldo

Has anyone noticed that phone numbers that use letters are unusable by modern cell phones?  How can you call 1-800-GOT-JUNK from your cell phone?  You can’t.

I got a mailer from a wonderful company for a great offer, and I literally could not call them because they failed to translate their fancy letter-number combo to just [...]

How PSECU (The Pennsylvania State Employee’s Credit Union) Swindled Me

By kapauldo

Like many Americans, I spend too much.  I got an offer in the mail from PSECU offering a low interest consolidation Visa.  I took the offer and paid off my American Express card.  My plan was to pay down the loan over 12 months.  The problem is, if you use the credit card, you are [...]

A Game of Tennis Has 20 Possible States, 3 Are Redundant

By kapauldo
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We recently bought a fake Wii.  The real one is too expensive.  While playing tennis with my son (I have the sore arms to prove it), I verified something that has been bugging me for about 20 years.  The state of “Deuce” is equivalent to “30/30.”  I don’t claim to be the first to point [...]