Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.
Seems that in Scotland, sightings of the Loch Ness monster are down, way down! This is causing a bit of concern amongst the locals that a shy Nessie will result in fewer tourists coming to the Loch to try and catch a glimpse of the world’s most famous mythological beastie. From MSNBC: Loch Ness monster […]
As I mentioned yesterday, I was eagerly running down information on something I had caught wind of – that banks in the UK were in a liquidity crunch to cover their positions, and rather than go to the Bank of England to get more money they were instead turning to the EU central bank. Now […]
Last month the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates a full ½ a percentage point. Some folks were surprised by this (myself included) due to the fact that many economic factors (such as the stock market) were near multi-year highs, and the economy in general was thought to be chugging along nicely. In reality what […]
The technology we use to drive mashup / content based integration sites like Hardtack is based around RSS and enterprise content syndication. As such I spend a lot of time tinkering with RSS and syndication tools others have built. One fun example is Feedster, which lets you search through RSS feeds for specific topics (although […]
I will confess I am a lucky man. I was fortunate enough to marry a woman who is in many ways as nerdy as I am, which makes so many aspects of a technical life a lot easier. Thanks to her, we now know of LiveScience.com’s top 10 ways to destroy the Earth! 10. Total […]
Avid readers of this blog will remember earlier this year the warning calls that went out about the impending new phase of our national and global finance. The part that surprised me was that it has taken this long to get this far. The stones are all lined up for the avalanche, but some of […]
The past 2 weeks have seen a great deal of activity in an otherwise very orderly and well structured financial system. As many of you know it’s a bit of a personal crusade to expose useful information that is hidden in plain sight, and expose it in a way that helps normal people gain insight […]
This came from Little Green Footballs, the video below is a bit long, but is a fascintating piece of reporting from a man who used to be entangled with England’s radical Islamist movements. Somehow he was able to put his feet on a better path, and now is speaking out. If you wonder about where […]
No, you can’t make stuff like this up. According to the Wall Street Journal, Macy’s has decided to cancel their plans to build fake homes inside many of their flagship stores. These houses were part of a marketing push around Martha Stewart (MSO) products being carried at these stores. These plans were shelved due to […]
Frequent readers of this Blog know that I have been using a new kind of software to help track hidden aspects of the business cycle, both for our customers and for my own interests. The working theory here is that the data you can get from government and industry reporting agencies are no longer inherently […]