Oldtent Archives 2007 - 2008

I thought you were a mechanical engineer (and an owner of farmland too?), so how come you are also a software geek?  Just joking with you. - no need to answer.  Just wanted to let you know that I appreciate any help I can get, such as your 23:29 posting.  I also regularly  read all of  your posts as one of many guideposts that I use to calibrate  what we should be doing in our family investment portfolio.   You know from my previous postings that there are a number of Saskatoon-based companies that I like as good long-term investments.  Our problem is that we dont have the funds to invest in what I think are good companies on the bargain table.  Wishing you the best.  Equiz.

… can you paste the url into the link box…

…..or do you have to type it all in ?

would you be so kind to add under ‘a tiny url’ cannuck gold’s methodoligy as “cannuckgold’s method”. much thanks. wj

excellent advise. we will standardize it in menu for mororializing a link. way much thanks. wj

features, you get “timeless” links.  For example, here is how you do a link.

type the name you want to give the link:  my netdania link

Now, select the text “my netdania link” with your mouse so that it is highlighted.

Once you do that, the little chain link in the tool bar lights up.  Click  the solid chain link , and a box pops up.  In the top line enter the URL you want to link to.

In my case I enter  “http://netdania.com/ChartApplet.asp”

Click insert and shazam, you have a tiny link without Tiny URL, with the tools built into the tent:

my netdania link

…..good points….all…..cheers

Fed’s Bullard says bank’s credibility on the line

CHICAGO, July 3 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve’s use of core inflation measures is harming its credibility, the new president of the St. Louis Fed wrote in an editorial released on Thursday.

Alan Bullard, who took over from William Poole in April, said focusing on inflation indices that exclude food and energy work well when those prices are rising at rates similar to those of other prices, “but that is not what is happening today.

“It is hurting Fed credibility to say that we are trying to keep inflation low and stable, but at the same time we are not counting some of the prices that are going up at the most rapid pace,” Bullard wrote in the bank’s magazine, “The Regional Economist.”

Bullard’s public appearances have shown a similar hawkish bias to his predecessor. In June he said the Fed needed to start raising interest rates this year to tamp down inflation.

“Price stability should be the number one goal of policy-makers today,” he wrote, defining price stability as “a small, positive rate of inflation, say 0.5 to 1.5 percent a year, depending on the price index being used.”

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a French presence 400 years ago  in the site of today’s Quebec City, I send sincere best wishes for this special celebration.  It makes me a very proud  Canadian that our nation has this lengthy 400-year link to our European past.

Also, I was particularly pleased to hear today several accounts about  how the Europeans who came onto the part of this continent now known as Quebec and Ontario did so with great assistance from  and cooperation with aboriginal peoples who lived there before them.

Winedoc, I hope you are proud today, and Madame Fullgoldcrown too, if Canada’s Francophone heritage is part of your heritage.  Enroute to graduate school in 1958 I had the good fortune to spend a weekend in Quebec City when their  350th anniversary was being celebrated.  How my wife and I would have loved  to be in Quebec City again  today for the 400th anniversary events that unfolded there today.    Cheers, all.  Equiz.

Fed’s Bullard says bank’s credibility on the line

CHICAGO, July 3 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve’s use of core inflation measures is harming its credibility, the new president of the St. Louis Fed wrote in an editorial released on Thursday.

Alan Bullard, who took over from William Poole in April, said focusing on inflation indices that exclude food and energy work well when those prices are rising at rates similar to those of other prices, “but that is not what is happening today.

“It is hurting Fed credibility to say that we are trying to keep inflation low and stable, but at the same time we are not counting some of the prices that are going up at the most rapid pace,” Bullard wrote in the bank’s magazine, “The Regional Economist.”

Bullard’s public appearances have shown a similar hawkish bias to his predecessor. In June he said the Fed needed to start raising interest rates this year to tamp down inflation.

“Price stability should be the number one goal of policy-makers today,” he wrote, defining price stability as “a small, positive rate of inflation, say 0.5 to 1.5 percent a year, depending on the price index being used.”

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Thanks, you too. Was gonna go to the north coast to catch some waves but too much some I heard from the fire in Big Sur.

I have a question to anyone willing to post it. I read the other day, I think it was Maya but heard it before, about saving, New dollar bills. What would be the difference between New dollar bills and Old dollar bills? Will something be wrong with the old dollars, does it have to do with counterfit dollars?

Great primer on liberty for kids or adults.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muHg86Mys7I

 pgs

A picture is worth……….

Thanks and hope you have a good July 4th holiday!

Glad to see you posting again, and Polly too. I just got back from babysitting for a few days. Guess my daughter , its starting to sink in about the Pms..maybe. She brought me back a very heavy 92.5% silver braclet and now using silver as gifts to relatives.

But I remember I think you have a daughter in college. I just got a email from a nurse friend, pass it on one. It said no joke. A woman passin flyers at a mall. In short, a woman was shopping at the mall found she had a flat, and as she started to fix it a well dressed man with a brief case came up and fixed it for her. Then he asked her if he could get a ride to his car on the other side of the mall because he went out the wrong way and was running late. She noticed he had put his briefcase in the trunk before he closed it. She made some excuse to go back in the store and called security.When she came back the man was gone. The police got the brief case opened it to see if there was any info on the owner. Inside they found things like rope, duct tape knives and such. I know they use tricks like pretend theyre sick or hurt to catch you off guard They found nothing was wrong with her tire someone let the air out of it.

Oh well, anyways hope you can light the fire crackers  tomorrow.

thanks for the heads up. didn’t know that. perhaps if 2 point and others realize it and a long url, they can place the cursor in the middle and hit enter to add a second line in the url. maybe that will work. i’ll test the idea next time a long url distorts the page with a huge gap and over lay on the url into the right menu columb. thanks. wj