MightyFunk

I’ve been following the stock markets closely for the past month and a half - in particular the oil industry as that’s where all my stocks are placed. As much as I hate oil and love the environment, I would be foolish otherwise to place my investments elsewhere as other industries are consistently losing money. There’s a lot of finger-pointing as to why these oil prices are record high, but I can tell you.

Some people blame supply and demand - is there enough?

Others blame speculation - the commodities market and stock owners for artificially inflating the price of oil.

Bear with me a little bit - there is a ‘conspiracy’ I will mention, but first I need to elaborate:

I’ve been away from writing the last couple of weeks because I’ve become highly interested in investing. My motivation is that as I run my own business, I don’t have someone to hold my hand and tell me where my funds should be placed for retirement. Unfortunately, it’s something I need to think about - but I suppose I’m all the wiser for it.

From the AP 5/30/08:

TOKYO - A homeless woman who sneaked into a man’s house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.

Police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man’s closet and arrested her for trespassing, police spokesman Hiroki Itakura from southern Kasuya town said Friday.

The resident of the home installed security cameras that transmitted images to his mobile phone after becoming puzzled by food disappearing from his kitchen over the past several months.

I got ticked off a while ago and went out on a rant why Yahoo! should have sold to Microsoft. Basically, I got locked out of my own account and had to go through a 2-week reregistration process to get ‘my’ stuff back.

Truth be told, Yahoo! isn’t as useless as I made it out to be. It’s hard for me to believe, but people DO use Yahoo! as a search engine - and some alternative is better than a complete monopoly by Google (or any other search engine for that matter.)