We need to learn quickly to keep up with the massive change around us so we don't get run over. We need to outrun change.
We may be hitting a peak in demand for oil. That’s the idea raised in The Economist two weeks ago – Yesterday’s Fuel.
Between a tremendous surge in natural gas production and car efficiencies, they perceive demand for oil may stabilize instead of continuing to grow.
Thus, we might finally have a real Peak Oil issue: Continue reading “Maybe there is a Peak Oil issue after all. That would be Peak Oil Consumption, not Peak Oil Production”
Wow. Election is resolved in Mali a day after the balloting and before the official results are announced.
On Monday Soumaila Cissé, former finance minister, conceded to Ibrahim Keita, a former prime minister.
Not that my voice matters to anyone, but I wish from the bottom of my heart that Mr. Keita will have a successful presidency and bring peace and prosperity to his country.
See Wall Street Journal – Keita Wins Mali Vote After His Opponent Concedes for the news.
Other background articles
Continue reading “Mali update – 8-12-13 – Mali has a new president”
I think the most serious damage from the feds spying on everything is that the effort could rapidly destroy our trust as citizens in our government. Collateral damage is that the big tech companies could wipe out our trust in them.
Bruce Schneier has been discussing this often, especially in a recent column at Schneier on Security – Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet
Look at these technically true comments that are actually very clever deceptions: Continue reading “Damage to trust in our government is most dangerous risk of the spying fiasco”
Amazing. The Boston Globe was sold for a negative sales price. The Washington Post is purchased by an individual for his personal portfolio.
Huge increase in oil production in the U.S. created by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing is a strategic threat to OPEC.
Against Crony Capitalism blog observes:
Saudi Arabia is concerned. Thanks to the shale gas revolution which has blossomed in the United States and which is starting to blossom in places like the United Kingdom and even China, the Saudi stranglehold on world energy reserves is loosening with each passing day.
A few updates, including results from first round of elections.
7-29 – Africa is a Country – While we wait for election results in Mali – Continue reading “Mali update – 8-2-13 – election results”
Cancer rates are going down. Increasing life expectancy is reducing the growth in population.
Lots of surprising things going on around us that we often don’t focus on. Check out this video of Ron Bailey discussing some of the items with Reason TV:
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What are a few of those things you probably hadn’t heard lately?
Continue reading “7 ways life is getting better – you likely haven’t heard about them”
How’s this for disruption – a 42% drop in the volume of point-and-shoot cameras shipped in the first five months of 2013.
Olympus expects their volume of low-end cameras to drop 50% this year compared to last.
Continue reading “The next industry to collapse – low-end digital cameras”
Philosiblog discusses that idea in a post of the same name.
It took me many years of struggling with the concept before I understood the idea that each of us is responsible for our own attitude.
The comment above illustrates the idea.
Philosiblog says:
Misery, like happiness, comes from within. If you choose to be miserable, you will be. If you choose to be happy, you will be. Yes, sometimes it is easier to be miserable than happy, but you can be happy, if you put forth the effort.
Continue reading ““A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.””
Number of people in Williston is growing so fast that the people who track such things are having a hard time figuring out how many are there.
Latest study is from N.D. State University, reported by AP in Grand Forks Herald: Study: Williston population growth to continue.
Current estimate is somewhere between 25,000 and 33,000 people are living in Williston. That’s up from the official count in the 2010 census of 14,700.
Notice the range of the estimate?
Continue reading “Estimates of population in Williston show doubling since 2010”
National elections held today, Sunday, in Mali. Some news over the last few days, including flash reports during election day:
7-24 – Wall Street Journal –With Rebellion Stifled, Mali Looks to Election – Continue reading “Mali update – 7-28-13”
(Cross-post from my other blog, Nonprofit Update.)
Recent news reports indicate federal intelligence agencies are gathering up a lot more information than we knew. That data is available to undisclosed lists of unknown people and will be retained for a very long time.
So what?
Here’s just a few circumstances in which you might not want access to your data by a long list of unidentified persons from various federal, state, or local agencies who were granted access to various unidentified parts of the various databases: Continue reading “12 situations when it might matter to you that the Feds are tracking everything you text or email and making note of everywhere you go.”
I’ve been tracking predictions for when Bakken hits a million barrels a day. Both Carpe Diem and Million Dollar Way put a prediction on the table today.
Check out the astounding increase in production in Eagle Ford shown in the graph from Carpe Diem: Energy fact of the day: Eagle Ford Shale sets new oil output record in May, will likely surpass Bakken Shale next year.
Production in May was 581,923 bopd, per the preliminary report.
Continue reading “The race is on – when will Eagle Ford and Bakken hit a million barrels a day?”
How about truck driving as a threatened field?
The Wall Street Journal article provides a question you may hear soon: Daddy, What Was a Truck Driver?
Truck driving
Continue reading “More industries transformed by tech revolution – truck driving, legal field”
(Cross-post from my other blog, Nonprofit Update.)
Update: The Old Reader back up at end of work day Thursday – that makes 1 1/2 days of the weekend and 4 workdays it was down.
Update 2: Shortly after coming back up, Old Reader went down again. After coming back up, they announced the move to a ‘private model’, meaning anyone who signed up after the Google announcement would get dropped. I understand – this has been a hobby for them and free to users. Then they said ‘never mind’, everyone could stay. They have been down a few times since then while migrating to new hardware. Um, that sort of proves the point of this post.
Your tech provider may go off-line for an indefinite time. Another reason not to let your technology hold you captive.
The Old Reader went down around lunchtime on Saturday, 7-20, and isn’t back up just before lunch on Wednesday, 7-24. That’s four days – most of the weekend and one-half of a work-week. No public estimate when it will return.
Don’t be held captive by your technology.
