Daily Archives: August 17, 2006

Boosterism

My friend Josh has a new job, and to make sure he can retire on his options this decade I’ll give him a quick mention. Jellyfish lets you earn cashback on purchases. Simple as that really. Normally I’d wonder at a scheme like this, but if Josh is involved then that gives me some confidence [...]

Hysteria

One of the big things missing in the discussion of the ‘war on terror’ is perspective. Of course you can’t apply too much perspective, because then you’d start to realize that nobody in the history of, um, history, has defeated terrorism. To me that counts as pretty good anecdotal evidence that we’re unlikely to be [...]