Category Archives: Burkina Faso

Finally, in an online world of gratuitous snark, one courageous editor has displayed the vision to give thumbs down to thumbs down. You read that right: no negative reviews.  “Why waste breath talking smack about something?” the recently hired book … Continue reading →

The retraction part is here. A long-simmering feud between the prominent evolutionary theorist Robert Trivers and a colleague at Rutgers University took a strange turn last month, when Mr. Trivers revealed that he had been banned from the New Brunswick … Continue reading →

L’exemple suédois est particulièrement illustratif : une dette publique élevée (proche de 85 % du PIB), un chômage élevé, et une production en stagnation en 1990 ; ensuite une réforme radicale de l’Etat, avec en particulier les effectifs dans le … Continue reading →

But the original is a parody of sexist music… so is this new video an un-ironic self-important humorless “parody” of a misinterpreted rap? Can you do a parody if you have no sense of humor?  Or maybe it is a  … Continue reading →

In financial markets the mechanism for avoiding moral hazard is a bit different, but the principle is the same. The key is to make sure that those who are making the decisions about how to invest other people’s money face … Continue reading →

Because it is, except you’d have to know that inflation in India is running about 7%… mentioned nowhere in the article… Having become accustomed to unlimited low-cost cash, the shift to market-based funding has led to some volatility as banks … Continue reading →

About once a week, Gary Vaynerchuk posts a Twitter message that reads, “Is there anything I can do for you?” He means it literally. He is inviting his roughly one million followers to send requests for any kind of help … Continue reading →

Just saying, from an ordinary user’s perspective. Dropbox did not fail in a year of use. Even from Burkina Faso to Dropbox server. Google Drive can’t even correctly sync from San Jose to Santa Clara.

A rout, it seems.

We faculty and staff at Santa Clara University received a letter last week, in the mail.  The only real “letter” I can think of from the president of the university.  In the letter, President Engh informs us that he has … Continue reading →

That is all… part of my quest to “name” the southwards bound winds that come through San Jose… nobody ever knows what to call them… Socal has Santa Ana winds, so why not Farallonic?