If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines 1 year ago, you would have $49.00 today!

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG 1 year ago, you would have $33.00 today.

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers 1 year ago, you would have $0.00 today.

But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer 1 year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for a recycling refund, you would have received $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It’s called the 401-Keg.

DAL — 8/11/10 to 8/10/11 — DOWN 41% — 590.00 left after the decline
LEH — 8/11/10 to 8/11/11 — BANKRUPT — 0.00 left after the Bankruptcy
AIG — 8/11/10 to 8/11/11 — DOWN 43% — 570.00 left after the decline

Thirty Cans in a pound of aluminum.
Let’s say a year ago that a case of PBR was 13.99 (you got it on sale, and in bulk, because you’re a crafty bastard and knew you had 3000.00 to burn and BY GOD you weren’t going to waste it on E*Trade)

You bought 214 Cases of that shit and had a bit of money left over for a burger (but no fries)

So if there are 24 cans in a case, and you had 214 cases (plus a burger) — Then you had 5136 cans of PBR… which, by the way, you’d still be drinking at this point in time unless you had a series of serious parties and you didn’t let anyone drink anything but PBR while they were there (and why would you? Pussies can’t handle a real man’s beer? Then they shouldn’t be at your party!)

So if 1 pound of aluminum gives you 30 cans, that means you had 171.2 pounds of aluminum to recycle. Current Market for UBC Aluminum (Used Beverage Cans, they’ve got varying thicknesses so this index creates and average) is at $0.89 per pound.

If you take them over to your local recycling yard, they’ll probably give you half that. So that’s $0.45 per pound, times 171.2 pounds = $77.40 — I called up a place here in jacksonville and those fuckers would only agree to pay 0.33 per pound… but I’m guessing they’re just abnormally low or they think I’m an idiot. So let’s say I magically talk those bitches up to giving me a dollar per pound, because I threaten to sue them for something if they don’t cave and give me what I want. I’ll get 171 dollars and 20 cents! The Day is mine!

The only problem that remains is I am still only holding 177.20 instead of the assets I would be holding in stocks: 1060.00 — Sure, both ways I’ve lost money. Both were poor investments. What in the fuck was I doing buying so much stock in 2010 when these companies were on an obviously ephemeral rebound? Why didn’t I buy stocks in 2001 instead? It certainly would’ve been a better Idea than buying stocks in 2010, and I don’t think I’ve ever purchased more than a hundred dollars worth of beer unless I was planning on selling it or I had lost a bet and had to buy a bunch of rounds over the course of an evening out with lots of friends.

When common sense invariably fails you; before you think about reposting stupid crap on Facebook … Try Math. Honesty, Intelligence and Hard Work are going to be the only things that pulls us out of this mess. That’s how America got to be great: Honesty, Intelligence and Hard Work — and that’s the only way America is going to get out from under this mess that we’ve gotten ourselves into.

Original.

“This is a job posting I made to try and find a developer to help my sales people, who use skype, see who is calling INBOUND to them. Im not having much luck finding someone who can do this and started wondering is it because im trying to do something impossible? Please forgive me if my terminology is not right, I am not a tech guy. I just want to know if im way off base.

I have my own lead management system in a mysql database that my sales people use to solicit customers. It works great. Our database has a gui that displays different customers information and we make alot of OUTBOUND CALLS with it, we use skype as a separate application to make the calls. skype and my lead management software do not talk to each other (other than we use click to call I guess). One feature i want to add is for when INBOUND CALLS come in through skype. As it stands now when an inbound call comes in through skype we have to get the persons last name OR cut and copy the phone number and type it into a search bar which pulls up the customers information.. we have to do this so we know who we are talking to and can review the customers information.

This is a cumbersome process that takes too much time. We want skype or something, when an INBOUND call is made to us, to populate the phone number thats calling into the search field so we can pull up the customers information (our current search technology can search by phone number). We want to do this OR we can just tell skype to take the number thats calling in and search our database and pull up the customers information… all we want is to get the customers information up on the salesman’s screen in real time or close to real time so the salesperson knows who he/she is talking to.”

Fixed.

“This is a job posting I made to try and find a developer to help my sales people, who use skype, see who is calling INBOUND to them. Im not having much luck finding someone who can do this and started wondering is it because im trying to do something impossible? I just want to know if I’m way off base or not.

I have my own lead management web application, it is hosted offsite in a standard LAMP environment. Each member of my on-site sales staff logs into it using Firefox. We use skype as a separate application to make outbound calls. skype and my lead management software do not talk to each other aside from using the “Click To Call” Skype plugin. One feature I want to add is for when INBOUND CALLS come in through skype on the salesperson’s windows desktop. As it stands now when an inbound call comes in through skype we have to manually get the persons last name OR cut and copy the phone number into a search bar within the Lead Management System (web browser). This pulls up the customers information… we have to do this so we know who we are talking to and can review the customers information.

This is a cumbersome process that takes too much time. We want skype or something, when an INBOUND call is made to us, to populate the phone number thats calling into the search field so we can pull up the customers information (our current search technology can search by phone number). We want to do this OR we can just tell skype to take the number thats calling in and search our database and pull up the customers information… all we want is to get the customers information up on the salesman’s screen in real time or close to real time so the salesperson knows who he/she is talking to.”

Simple, useful, set it up to run each time the computer boots. I haven’t had time to do any real updates lately, so here’s this.

Set objNetwork = CreateObject(“Wscript.Network”)

objNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection

“\\servername\printername”

If you are forced to use IE, make sure that you know about IE8 built-in security features before you upgrade your current IE. Some of the security features will stop us from using some of our internal applications. This post talks about the XSS Filter in IE8, which is enabled by default, and how to disable it when it hinders your ability to use web sites you trust.

NOTE: This post is intended only for the security testers/analysts and not for a normal internet user. Please do not mess up the default security settings in IE8, unless you know what you are doing. Fortunately for you, I’m going to show you what you’re doing.

IE Intrusive Yellow Bar

Disabling XSS Filters

Go to: Tool Menu > Internet Options > Security Tab > Internet > Custom Level > Hit Disable under “Enable XSS Filter” near the bottom of the list.

Screenshot time!

Tools > Internet Options

Set Custom Level

Scroll down, select the "Disable" radio button, click "OK"

Click 'Yes' on the confirmation popup

NOTE: Enable XSS Filtering after the requirement or Reset to default settings.

To Disable the XSS filter via application code; set HTTP Response header: X-XSS-Protection: 0

Root your HTC Incredible and begin doing all manner of fancy things with it. Follow this link over to The Unlockr for a step-by-step how to.

http://theunlockr.com/2010/07/26/how-to-root-the-htc-incredible-unrevoked-method/

I’ll begin posting some Apps that require Root Access that I have found incredibly useful or just pretty cool in the coming days/weeks.