Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.
Following the assassination of former Prime Minister Bhutto yesterday, Pakistan has seen several large cities erupt in violence. Many of the protests have been peaceful but quite a few have turned violent, with rioters focusing on burning property and destroying anything they can. A summary map of the most active cities below: Far and away […]
I recently took a wonderful trip to Scotland just before Christmas to visit relatives. It was a tremendous visit, and it was great to see everyone again. On the way home, I had the pleasure of sitting at a east facing window seat as we flew back to the US, with our route taking us […]
It’s a sad day for the forces of moderation and cooperation in the Muslim world. Early this morning US Time, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed a short time after a political rally. Reports from the scene state that multiple shots where fired, and one person detonated an explosive vest at the time […]
Word today from MarketWatch that the CEO of E-Trade is hitting the bricks as part of a $2.55 Billion deal with Citadel to pump enough money into the online broker to keep it running in face of losses connected to their Asset Backed Securities (ABS): NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The subprime crisis claimed a new […]
An interesting post from the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Bertrand Serlet recalled to his home planet Well it’s a sad day for all of us here in Cupertino. Bertrand Serlet, the friendly cyborg from the future who has lived among us and helped guide our software development efforts with such skill, has been recalled […]
Second post today about the SIV mess. To sum up what has happened so far, HSBC (one of the largest UK banks) has decided to move some of its funky SIVs onto the balance sheets in an attempt to build investor confidence. In response, Citigroup, who has many times more exposure to this garbage than […]
Recessions are interesting things, the most interesting part of which is just how the world financial powers have been able to avoid any significant ones for quite some time. The minor one just after September 11th, 2001 was avoided by the central banks opening up the flood gates and swamping the economies with easy money. […]
The local news and weather have been talking up the possibility of a Santa Ana wind period during the Thanksgiving holiday week. At the moment the models are so chaotic that there are no good or accurate predictions of if it will happen, and if it does how significant it could be. Sadly if the […]
It seems that little maniac that tried to take over Europe some 70 years or so ago was a notorious farter. His gas was so epic in fact that it may have played a role in Germany losing World War II (if so it would be a possible to assume that flatulence is a force […]
The Cal band (Berkley) is famous for half time shows from its crazed marching band. Now for your entertainment, Cal’s band brings you interpretations of some well loved video games. Simply amazing. Note: My nephew Ian Henderson attends Berkley and is a rabid computer fiend from an early age. I have no idea if he […]