Sunday, August 17, 2003


Housing Affordability falls 5 points in November to 30 percent,C.A.R. reports [Housing Bubble]
5:32:47 PM    

  Tuesday, July 29, 2003


New home sales fall 15 percent in January, prices also drop [Housing Bubble]
8:48:34 PM    

House prices may fall if U.S. goes to war says Wall Street Journal
8:48:17 PM    

California detached home price breaks record, sales up 15.8 percent Q4
8:48:06 PM    

The daily Review (Hayward) Feb 14 2003 6:01PM ET [Moreover - Bay Area news]
8:47:55 PM    

Contra Costa Times Feb 13 2003 3:57PM ET [Moreover - Bay Area news]
8:47:40 PM    

Greenspan testimony: no need to address housing bubble, household debt levels not a cause of concern [Housing Bubble]
8:47:21 PM    

Housing Starts rise multi-family home permits fall in latest Commerce Dept data [Housing Bubble]
8:45:41 PM    

Study shows home buyers continue to take advantage of low interest rates as prices continue to rise [Housing Bubble]
8:45:33 PM    

California home price rises and flat sales raises affordability concerns [Housing Bubble]
8:45:21 PM    

The daily Review (Hayward) Feb 21 2003 6:01PM ET [Moreover - Bay Area news]
8:45:14 PM    

California median home price hits record $376,260 sales increase 7.2 percent C.A.R. reports [Housing Bubble]
8:45:03 PM    

The Argus Jul 24 2003 7:29PM ET [Moreover - Bay Area news]
8:44:58 PM    

Bay Area home sales down 3.5 percent in February prices steady [Housing Bubble]
8:44:51 PM    

The daily Review (Hayward) Mar 22 2003 6:01PM ET [Moreover - Bay Area news]
8:44:42 PM    

Court of Appeals ruled that all five Boards of Realtors in San Diego County fixed prices [Housing Bubble]
8:44:31 PM    

California median home price hits record $376,260 sales increase 7.2 percent C.A.R. reports [Housing Bubble]
8:43:58 PM    

  Friday, February 07, 2003


Look into using a buyer broker. [Motley Fool]
7:28:15 AM    

  Monday, February 03, 2003


Home mortgage lending tightened residential mortgage demand softens [Housing Bubble]
7:41:38 AM    

  Thursday, October 31, 2002


BayArea.com Jan 31 2003 9:00AM ET [Moreover - Bay Area news]
9:29:29 AM    

San Francisco Chronicle Jan 31 2003 6:12AM ET [Moreover - Bay Area news]
8:20:17 AM    

Globe and Mail Jan 31 2003 4:32AM ET [Moreover - Economics news]
7:14:23 AM    

Boston Globe Jan 31 2003 5:54AM ET [Moreover - Economics news]
7:13:53 AM    

Home foreclosures jump 20 percent in Bay Area. BayArea.com Oct 30 2002 6:19PM ET [Moreover - Bay Area news]
8:49:39 AM    

  Wednesday, September 11, 2002


So, I bought this Olympus Camedia C3020z.  Mostly a nice camera.  To go with it, I bought a 128MB smartmedia card for around $100.   

I formatted the card in my PC using a smartmedia reader after my first use.  Despite the fact that it was easy and even natural to do this (I think I was even prompted for it), this was a mistake.  Apparently, an unrecoverable one -- according to Olympus, you can never recover the original format of the card once you've formatted on a PC via a reader.   That card works fine, but neither the camera or the bundled software can recover the format required by the camera. 

After *much* searching, it appears that if I could write out a nice 128MB FAT12 filesystem (an odd combination to say the least), the camera might be happy again.  So far, no luck finding the magic combination of tools, drivers, and operating systems that allows me to do this with my current hardware.  

I'm trying to imagine what would make this an acceptable state of affairs for Olympus to subject their customers to this.  At the very least, they should have had lots of flashy red warnings on the camera, the manual, and the box they came in. 


7:40:03 PM    

Foreclosure Rate Is Rising. New York Times Sep 11 2002 0:53AM ET [Moreover - Economics news]
7:40:07 AM    

  Thursday, August 22, 2002


Housing Isn't a House of Cards [Business Week: Daily Briefing]
7:10:40 PM