Tag Archives: commentary

Cease and desist

Ray Kurzweil, the famous “futurist” who has made some ludicrously inaccurate predictions, sent an angry letter to Newsweek magazine to try and clear his name. (I wonder if he will do the same if he comes across this post: The scary thing about Ray Kurzweil) Here is an excerpt: I appreciate your bringing my ideas… Read More »

I’m back!

My blog has magically reappeared, having gone AWOL for almost a week. Because of this, the pagerank for my blog has gone down to 0. Bloody hell! Also, it seems that the people at Blogger can login to your account without your knowledge and forcibly remove widgets and the underlying HTML codes. So much for… Read More »

Sympathy? What sympathy?

Wall Street apologist Geoff Colvin has done it again. In his recent Value Driven article (“Sympathy for the Devils“, FORTUNE, May 25), Colvin argued that Wall Street shouldn’t be punished [for the excesses] because “restoring profitability to the banks will require paying bonuses”. He further tried to lay blame for the public outrage on a… Read More »