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I haven't been very happy with backup solutions from Western Digital, Seagate, and other drive companies. They haven't worked as well as just buying an external enclosure and drive and backing up through USB 2.0. NAS (Network Attached Storage) has been a little pricey until I found this from Newegg ...

For the record, the stock market was up about 5.5% in the 3 months we played. Simply buying and S&P500 index fund would have put you in 8th place.

It's over...and no one noticed!

Mr. Tops wrote: But anyhow...it is a safe vehicle, although proned to rollovers,

I don't think "prone to rollovers" classifies it in the safe vehicle catagory.

The Wyoming Historical Commission has a new book out, Wilderness to Wyoming. There is quite a bit of info on the interurban with a few photos and also a chapter From Trails to Rails with a few Wyoming Yard photos. A lot of interesting reading for anyone growing up in the area. It's available at Marg...

With Warren Buffet buying Burlington Northern, DR moves into 2nd place, up 21% this morning.

When I'm logged in the time is correct. When I'm not logged in the time is an hour off.

HAVING BEEN A REGISTERED REP FROM 1984 TO 2004 , I CAN SAY THAT THE REAL STOCK MARKET IS NOT A GAME. WHEN CLIENTS SEE $100K BECOME $50K IN A FEW WEEKS, IT LEAVES A LASTING IMPRESSION ON YOU. :( :( :(-AND THE CLIENT. This game is a poor representation of what investing should be about and yet this g...

Interesting article on Garmin and TomTom http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/28/googles-new-mobile-app-cuts-gps-nav-companies-at-the-knees/ . Do you short Garmin after its already dropped? Will google find a way to profit from this? edit: another article http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20091029/wit...

Adobe Lightroom 3 beta is available for download http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/ for those of you who would like to take it for a test drive. The program will expire on April 30, 2010.

Click on "make a trade" on the left

The market seems to think Amazon is worth 26% more than it was yesterday.

Freight heading west through Grandville at 11:20 am. Must be 327.

Railroadfan's favorite from last year's game, Conseco (CNO), is up 28% at noon today. I'm going to short it!

A couple of months ago I had the same thing happen to me as Scooterb. Popups and redirects coming so fast that anything you do is too late. These attacks appear to be coming from rogue ads on the sites...NYTimes was hit a few weeks ago. There is no easy way to recover once you've been hit ...they re...

railroadfan wrote:Go big or go home!

So far, I'm heading home.

I notice Railroadfan is going for his usual all or nothing approach.

You guys forget about the game already? Dow is down 200 today and you're all still at $100,000.

Don Simon wrote: Abstinence is best. It works every time without fail.

Believe you're forgetting Mary, Don. You remember her, known as "The Virgin"

At least the guy spelled "Zack" correctly...not "Zak" or "Zach". He deserves some credit for that!