From the category archives:

Cold Hard Cash

You’ve got a dirty little mind, don’t you?
As tax time approaches, we watch our government borrow more heavily than ever to soothe the economic chafing caused by, well, borrowing too much money, ultimately increasing the amount of money we’re going to have to send to Uncle Sugar next year at this time, some of you [...]

{ 0 comments }

Having trouble selling your home in this sagging real estate market? Clementina Marie Giovannetti of Ocala, Florida, apparently was, too.
So she’s decided to give her $1.25 million mansion away.
Crazy? Don’t answer yet.
She’s having a contest, and the submission of the winning “Pet Lover” essay gets the house. Contestants have to [...]

{ 1 comment }

Consumerist reports that – suprise! – Cingular continues to find new ways to screw its customers.

Beckie is a reader who started out with a cell phone from a small company that got bought by AT&T. As you well know, AT&T was bought by Cingular. A few months later, Beckie received a letter from Cingular asking [...]

{ 0 comments }

Getting the Switch

by Mike on 4/17/2006

in Cold Hard Cash, Mob Rule

My grandparents, like most of their generation, believed in giving their kids a spanking when discipline was required. Some spankings called for the willow switch, which hard-spanking parents never kept handy in the house. They always sent the kid out to pick one.
Dread surging, the about-to-be-spanked child walked slowly out to the [...]

{ 3 comments }

Billing on Paper

by Mike on 3/14/2006

in Cold Hard Cash

A few days ago I lamented the lack of useful billing software packages for Apple. Today I discovered I’m not the only one who feels the pain. Web design firm Blue Flavor does too.
One would think that this is a problem that has been solved, but we’ve had a hell of a time [...]

{ 0 comments }

Krempasky’s very large PR firm is looking for communications staff.

{ 0 comments }

Recall my post the other day about “ink by the barrel“?
That post was more prescient than my football picks. Tiff’s story got picked up by the Consumerist, Instapundit, and Doc Searls.
She’s gotten more eyeballs in three days than I’ve gotten total since I started blogging more than six years ago. And 90% of [...]

{ 0 comments }

This week saw some significant revelations in the comedy of errors that we all know as the Xbox360 launch. In the wake of widespread reports of defects in the console, a Chicago man has filed what promises to be a significant class-action products-liability lawsuit against Microsoft.
The proposed class action suit claims that in Microsoft’s [...]

{ 0 comments }

The Productivity Boom

by Mike on 12/8/2005

in Cold Hard Cash, Mob Rule

RedState reports that non-farm economic productivity has skyrocketed in the last four years – an astonishing 17%. The previous high-water mark was 12.8% for 1961 – 1960. Why is this important?
Productivity is a key factor that determines whether living standards are improving. Productivity gains allow companies to pay workers more from their increased [...]

{ 2 comments }