As a budding entrepreneur and a member of the web community I attended the Dublin Web Summit last night in the Chartered Accountants Ireland building on Pearse Street. The summit had a good line up of speakers, including Michael Birch, Bebo founder, and Ray Nolan, a home grown success story with HostelWorld.
O2 just called me and wanted to check if I wanted to change my monthly phone set up, change rate and all that. I keep a fairly close eye on what I'm doing on my phone and make sure that I already am on the best rate, which they told me again, always nice to know I'm on top of things! But then the following happened:
A few months back, when the two main irish banks had share counted in the tens of cents, I was looking at their reports, likely losses, and all that stuff, and I made a decision to buy AIB shares, if they hit my price. I think I set it at around 25 cents a share.
I've been an Apple user for a few years now, and I don't see myself switching back anytime in the medium term. But the Apple laptop line-up has some strange configurations and I wanted to see which laptop is best in a couple of different categories. So, I took a look at the spec sheets, and I decided to compare the line in the following headings:
Unfortunately, we could all need some advice over the next few months (or years) regarding what to do if a business you have a contract with goes bust: What To Do if a Business Goes Bust
Chicago Public Radio, an episode on why and how all the money ended up in mortgages. They have interviews with people on the entire chain of people involved in the credit crisis and mortgages. I would highly recommend a listen, even if it is about three-quarters of an hour long.
