September 2005

Who sets prices?

Have you heard people like Bill O’Reilly or government officials, or wondered yourself, how markets set prices? For things like, o say oil and gas. Read Prices as the Result of Human Action but Not of Human Design. While it’d be nice to be able to blame evil oil corporations for profiteering from high prices, […]

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Soccer Blogs Aggregator

I quietly launched Soccer Blogs earlier this month but, after some useful critiques from my design friend Nam-ho, I tweaked the layout and added aggregate RSS and Atom feeds.  I’ve been working on this, as time and World of Warcraft addiction allow, since mid summer.  I wanted to try out aggregating feeds and, this is

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Stadiums and ticket demand

Soccer-Specific-Stadiums are all the rage in Major League Soccer these days, as a way for the League to control costs (mainly stadium rental) and keep ancillary revenues, Dallas opened their own stadium this summer, Chicago has one on the way for next year, the Metrostars finally decided to pay for their own for 2007, and

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Hello. My name is Simon.

This weekend, Staci and I adopted Simon from BREW, a local beagle rescue organization.  Staci saw his posting earlier in the week and pretty much fell in love with the little guy, so we headed to the Adoption Day they were having in Alexandria on Saturday.  We pretty much made a bee-line from the dorr

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