This came up a couple of weeks ago.  As you may know, we’ve been supporters of Kiva since last year when we made a loan.  In early June, we got an email notifying us that the loan was officially in default.  This means that we were definitely not going to see the unpaid balance of [...]

In a New York Times Magazine article for this weekend, there’s a story about Kiva, a micro-lending brokerage that I’ve been advertising on this site for quite a while. It’s a good news kind of story, and one I had not expected to hear.
Recently, every borrower business in Kiva’s system was 100% funded. [...]

I’ve had little time or space thus far for this topic, not because it lacks importance, but because I can only write so much.  Today I’d like to seriously look at something that many people are reacting to with cynicism, humor, and contempt because of the person at the center of the topic, and as [...]

I finally broke down (after having purchased an iPod for my wife earlier this year) and bought my own iPod last week… and no I didn’t buy the iPhone, but yes I did buy the Touch (iPhone without the phone).  I like it, it works great (except Safari tends to crash quite a bit), and [...]