Brian James White

Viewsonic put an official androd 2.2 release out.  Much improved and includes skyfire browser.   Download and instructions found here http://www.viewsonic.com/products/vpad10.htm

I love my new hat.

I was wondering this morning how much carbon is taken out of the atmosphere every year by the trees in the front yard of our house.  I stumbled across this really cool calculator. http://www.itreetools.org/treecalculator/ When I have more time I’ll try to calculate the total carbon for all the trees on our new lot and [...]

So even though windows and microsoft technology is at the core of my career, I still was able to get a good laugh out of this recent Mac ad. http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/apple_getamac_beancounter_20081019_480x272.mov

I emailed Norm Coleman about the bail out bill before it was voted on…here is the email response I got from him. Dear Mr. White:   Thank you for taking the time to contact me to voice your concerns with the financial crisis we’re facing.  I hear you loud and clear and want to assure [...]

Yesterday I saw gas for 2.99 a gallon, I really didn’t ever think I would see that again unless it was in the movies.  Today I dow dropped below 9000, the markets still open so I don’t know where it will close at. 8,997.02 -261.08 (-2.82%) Real-time:   3:01PM EDT

Happy Count Down Day (I just made that up so if there really is a countdown day I apologize). It will be another 100 years before we have another countdown day.  Sounds like a good reason to go home today and have a beer.  Where to you think the DJIA will bottom out?  If the [...]

GD1…the first great depression?  Some history from the New York Stock Exchange web site. 1929 On September 3, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its 1929 peak of 381.17. Black Tuesday On October 29, “Black Tuesday,” prices fall sharply and the stock market “crashes.” This “crash” produces a record volume of nearly 16 million shares. [...]

Bailout type      Cost to taxpayers (Source: Reuters) Proposed Treasury Department legislation     $700 billion+ Bear Stearns financing     $29 billion Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac nationalization     $200 billion AIG loan and nationalization     $85 billion Federal Housing Administration housing rescue bill     $300 billion Mortgage community grants     $4 billion JPMorgan Chase repayments [...]

Patty shot this video today of me catching a Mahi-Mahi in Cancun.  What a fun fish.  I was physically exausted after fighting this fish.  I would estimate it at 25 to 30 pounds.    [youtube 0MXHDbtU3FE] I’ve also started uploading photos to the gallery.  Here’s a link for you…I’ll try and get more uploaded tomorrow, we [...]