Ade in Business

One of the effects I’ve experienced from thinking a lot more about the Enron case is having a greater suspicion that corruption permeates our government. It’s hard to ignore the hand that the government had in providing the Enron (and other companies) the means to take advantage of Californians, and their unwillingness to act [...]

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Some things are pretty obvious after you think of them.
When a new user signs up on FormSpring or Ponyfish, a randomly generated password is emailed to them. It’s a fairly simple way to make sure that a valid email address is associated with an account. Both services also have a password reset function [...]

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This weekend I watched The Smartest Guys in the Room, a documentary about the Enron scandal. Even though I knew the basics about the scandal, I still appreciated the in-depth look at the major players in the case, and a lot of the little details I missed when reading about it in the news. [...]

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My brother and I were recently sitting in Cold Stone Creamery respectively enjoying Birthday Cake and Devil’s Delight concoctions. While everyone else was talking about what we were going to do with the rest of the evening, he turned to me and asked, “what do you think their margins are?”
Being the purveyor of hot [...]

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If you can see this, my transfer to a new web host was complete. If you can’t see this, then you’re probably Ed Illig playing mind games with me. I spent the greater part of the last few couple days migrating to DreamHost from another shared hosting provider that I’ll refrain from mentioning (FormSpring [...]

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