Broback's Blog

Seattle home sellers “blink” again. More and more are selling at a loss. A flood of rental inventory can’t be helping. http://bit.ly/46nGba # @Dropbox does dropbox retain finder metadata? We need labels, comments, etc. for our workgroup. # Virgin America has lost $270.2 million on sales of $311.7 million since it began service in August […]

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WSJ: “Job Loss in the Age of Blogs and Twitter” http://bit.ly/CnGI # WSJ says GiftCardRescue.com lets you buy/sell/exchange gift cards. http://bit.ly/bIrr # Christian Bale has an extended and significant temper tantrum over an apparent nothing. Audio here. http://bit.ly/1kiAqO # Ahhh. Miss the old days of living in Seattle. The rich urban tapestry: http://bit.ly/PsE7 # Powered […]

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Seattle Bubble just posted about the recent numbers out from Zillow. Zillow’s analysis found that 29 percent of homes in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue area sold at a loss during the final three months of 2008. They present the year over year depreciation on a crude map, which didn’t really help me see how specific neighborhoods were […]

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Microsoft sues a employee for spying. Apparently the accused wanted evidence that MS was ripping off his patents. http://bit.ly/1SAnW # In VA, the foreclosure rate is 3 1/2 times greater in mostly black neighborhoods. http://bit.ly/ymcg The Cause?: http://tinyurl.com/4clng5 # Loved the Hulu ad during the Superbowl… http://bit.ly/2jVm # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Economist mag: Expanded birth control = the opposite of economic stimulus. http://bit.ly/4xweyO # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Remember kids, there is such a thing as a free lunch. As we know intuitively, all government spending is worth the debt and/or taxation required to fund it. Now we can prove it. With this handy conversion chart, you can debate with your conservative friends (and win every time!) just like Nancy Pelosi does on […]

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Twingly blog search providing results that don’t contain ANY of the terms I am searching for. http://bit.ly/1AmRxi # Pew Research: 69% or Americans don’t want to live in a city. Small town, suburbia, or rural life is preferred. http://bit.ly/10V1K # Virgin America sues blogger over fake ad. “I thought you were GOOD at PR, Richard […]

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Working on the site that we put up to sell our Sea Ray 400. It’s a great boat, going to miss it. http://bit.ly/HYBV # WSJ: Beware of Facebook ‘Friends’ Who May Trash Your Laptop http://bit.ly/M1q4z # New York Times: 48% decline in net income. Wonder if 34 Abu Ghraib cover stories (in 37 days) helped […]

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Reading “An Ecosocialist Manifesto” By Joel Kovel and Michael Lowy. http://bit.ly/9IKn # Morse code is faster than texting. http://bit.ly/dmuJ # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Pew Research policy priorities survey: Global warming in last place among American adults. http://bit.ly/3T2r8b # State of Hawaii investigates funding a program to give homeless there a one-way plane ticket to go … somewhere else. http://bit.ly/3bbxS # Seattle is 8th fittest city in the U.S. Salt Lake city is number one. SF is 12. Fattest […]

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