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Heard on the F train PA this morning: “This is York Street… Last stop in the beautiful borough of Brooklyn.” :-p
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Tyco CEO resigns and the stock tumbles yet more. I can at least find some solace in the fund manager’s comments for American Century Ultra: Ultra’s industrial stake, namely its position in Tyco International, was a key source of underperformance. A long-time holding that had added value in previous periods, the international conglomerate declined under … …
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Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn: My hood is profiled in this weekend’s real estate section… Nice!
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When sending an HTTP POST request with data, you must insert two newlines between the Content-Length header and the actual data. Otherwise you end up with a vague error about a missing colon in the header field. Took me forever to figure this out…
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Saturday (5/4) is Gramercy Park Day! 10a-2p, but last year I got there just before 2:00p, and they were no longer admitting visitors. People were PISSED. Get there early.
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So glad I bailed out of BEONX. Apparently, these chumps haven’t learned their lesson. Another significant drag on performance was Tyco International Ltd. (2.15% of assets), which suffered a steep decline in the aftermath of Enron. In our opinion, the steep drop was unwarranted given the company’s track record and recent SEC review that found … …
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Co-op Board Bans Smoking in Apartments by New Owners While I still find smoking to be an utterly filthy habit, this restriction in one Upper West Side building simply reinforces my disdain for co-ops.
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What a call on VRSN and TYC. Too bad I did nothing… HOMS revisited. How is this pig still alive? $400M+ deficit (mostly outstanding obligations to AOL, I would guess) and dwindling cash. The latest 10-Q says $270M cash/equivs, but a 4/3 press release says $28M in unrestricted cash…
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NHL and NBA playoff pool scoreboards are now automated using Perl and sockets. I can be such a geek… :-p WCOM getting bombed today. What a disaster.
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Just started implementing site-wide stylesheets using Perl and make. Changes are afoot. Yeah, boooy.