Blog Notes-April 2009

God, give us grace
to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
courage to change the things
that should be changed,
and the wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.

Recent Changes

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1. Utilities
   • Print saver for web pages. Print What You Like Paste in a URL at the website and you can print only the content that you want from the web page.
   • Page Zipper - can be used to load multiple pages of content at one time, particularly those which has been spread across many page (i.e. a news article of the top 15 split into 15 separate pages).
   • Xobni for Outlook. Fast search, find connections for contacts, find attachments and versions, and email analytics. Free for now, I'm sure there will be a paid version in the future. _2009-04-01
2. Good Reading
   • James Fallows at The Atlantic. It's been awhile since I've read any of his pieces. Excellent technology viewpoints. _2009-04-01
3. Investing
   • Fantastic presentation by Frank Armstrong, showing a different perspective of the markets from the 1920s to late 2008. Bulls and Bears - Another View uses a graphical context to demonstrate highs and lows and the duration of various market changes. Frank, famous for writing and publishing Investment Strategies for the 21st Century online in the late 1990s, has written a new book: The Retirement Challenge: Will you Sink or Swim? _2009-04-12
   • Intelligent Investing with John Bogle, as interviewed by Steve Forbes in Jan 2009. This fits very nicely with John Bogle's book that I've been reading over the weekend: The Little Book of Commonsense Investing _2009-04-12
   • Recent articles by John Bogle: Markets in Crisis by John C. Bogle and Rodney N. Sullivan, CFA in Financial Analysts Journal, January/February 2009, Vol. 65, No. 1: pp: 17-24. PDF. This follows up: Black Monday and Black Swans by John C. Bogle in Financial Analysts Journal, March/April 2008, Vol. 64, No. 2: pp: 30-40.