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.)