Patrick Havens on August 1st, 2008

A picture is worth $200 billion dollars. Borrowing by banks to cover demand deposits because their assets have less value than their liabilities. Graphic from the St. Louis Fed.
I’d be curious what it would be in relation to the value of money over the years. ie. I know that central banks where not [...]

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Patrick Havens on March 14th, 2008

You know… as geeky as I thought I was. I’ve been so busy I forgot what today was.
Pi Day, potentially the nerdiest of the nerd “‘holidays”, is celebrated on March 14 — 3/14.
[Wagalicious]
For those curious. I’ve been busy behind the scenes preparing for the new WordPress update (2.5 comes out within a week [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 28th, 2008

Its a tool that is often used in school. A tool that in retrospect I would of assumed was just a typical Apple program. But the story behind it, show that it was anything but typical.
[...]Graphing Calculator 1.0, which [...]

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