Economy | LAGBAJA (sombody)

Approaches to security metrics
There are three approaches to security metrics; qualitative, quantitative, and hybrid. A qualitative approach is one where security is measured on a sliding scale of : SECURE -> INSECURE. Various levels or shades of security (or insecurity) can be determined as a measure of some stated policy. A grid/matrix of values can then be designed in such [...]
Motorola Droid X
At 65.5 x 127.5 x 9.9 mm, this will be the biggest mobile phone form factor I will ever get. I thought the IPone was a monster of a phone, and reluctantly accepted to carry a Treo, and later a Curve. But the Droid X by Motorola is also my most anticipated smart phone. I [...]
Mr. President. When you’re in a hole. Stop digging!
The biggest problem with this president and the presidency is not just the jobs numbers as the pundits will like to make you believe. It is the increasing perception by the coalition thatelected him, that the president is in bed with the same group that screwed the country up. Both on the left, and the [...]
The President and the pile ons
Barack Obama’s ascendancy to the United States Presidency was a cinderella moment in American history. A black looking mulato who hardly knew his father and is married to a great-grand-daughter of slaves won the Presidency with one of the largest electoral margins in history and so much promise at a time when the national mood [...]
The move to 64 bit computing
Since 2003, there has been a concerted move by the computer industry to migrate to 64 bit computing, first with the AMD’s 64 bit general purpose machine, and Microsoft’s 64 bit XP. Most operating system vendors, including Apple began to seriously release 64 bit versions of their software in 2007, and the number has grown, [...]
HTML 5 : A new page is turning…
A new page, in the internet (inter-web as some on the US right will call it) is turning, albeit slowly. Internet 5 standard is finalized, mostly, and the major players are readying their best shots. Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, Google Chrome 6, Safari 5 are all promising to deliver the most profound update to the [...]
A crazy nation ups the ante
There’s been news lately of the political class in Nigeria outdoing themselves again. Most Nigerian Newspapers carried the distressing news of Nigerian politicians planning a jamboree in London – A summit to celebrate Nigeria’s 50th independence anniversary in London. It’s like the United States organizing a jamboree in London to celebrate its 250th independence anniversary, or India organizing a jamboree [...]

Home prices are no where near bottom

May 252009

Recent news may have given the impression that home prices are beginning to approach their bottom across the nation, more so given the home price decline numbers from California and Florida where some areas have seen plunges of up to 2/3rd from their heights in 2006 and many are well into a 30% decline. But [...]

Reviving the economy : Ideas that work

Jan 092009

In approximately 264 hours from now, the United States will have a new president and for the first time since 1992, the Democrats will control all three branches of legislative and executive arms of government, and there’s a growing temptation to redo the New Deal of the 1930s as a recipe for the current global [...]

Nine down; who's counting

Aug 232008

So far it seems like a trickle, between July 11 and August 22, US regulators have shuttered five banks, bringing the year’s total to nine. Columbian Bank and Trust Co. of Topeka, Kansas had $762 million in assets and $622 million in deposits according to the FDIC who also expect the recent failure to cost [...]