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Show notes/transcript for Minute Tech 26:

26 - What is Lampwork glass?


- The iPhone's European debut; Yellowstone rises;
- What is lampwork glass?
- Cisco's earning estimates yields 9.5 Richter scale quake.


Good morning, this is the Minute Tech podcast -

coming to you for Friday, November 9th, 2007

We take a few minutes to talk about technology
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This is Alex Landefeld with minute tech 26 - What is lampwork glass?

Tech items:

Apple's iphone goes on sale today in Germany and the UK. While they don't expect quite the sales volume as the US had, I think that the intent of the halo effect is both well understood and works well...

Yellowstone park is sitting on top of an extinct volcano - did you know that?
one of my scientific interests is the type of thing that could affect us all, volcanoes being one of those things. I keep an eye on volcano news worldwide, and through some of this research had already learned that the geysers at yellowstone are the remnants of an eruption some 70,000 years ago. But did you know that all of yellowstone sits atop a 40-mile wide volcano that blew it's top - and or fell in upon itself, some
640,000 years ago? The entire volcanic field of that region spans some 300 miles, and the recent news is that for the past three years the magma, or lava, chamber under Yellowstone has been pushing up to the tune of 3 inches per year for the past three years - more than three times the rate since record-keeping started in 1923. Probably no cause for alarm - unless you expect to be around for another 50,000 years.

Astronomers have detected a 5th planet orbiting a star some 41 light-years distant from our solar system...which puts it well within the local neighborhood. This seems to signify that perhaps a star with multiple planets may be a common celestial occurrence.


tech question:

I mentioned art glass yesterday. Let's ask my wife Jennifer what lampwork glass is:

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you can find jennifer on the web at themacmuse.blogspot.com

podcasting/blogging tidbit:

Okay, so some small part of this podcasting is going the way least expected. I really am realizing that this is, in part, therapy for me. In general, the only therapy I need is an internet connection, or two hours in the evening with my family, but us liberal arts majors tend to have many interests, so I need to think through the investing angles too.

I am not at this time an investment professional, and do not hold myself out as an advisor. People may ask me for advice, but I always advise taking whatever I say and then do their own research - they may use the same free online resources I use, or they may use others.

Whatever I talk about, assume that I'm some how involved with it. If I talk it down, think through my comments and may consider that I may be selling; conversely, if I talk it up, assume that I may be buying on my own account, and therefore consider whether my comments are good observation or merely hype.

There are 3 things that're important in all of investing, whether you're jane investor putting her monthly saving into XYZ mutual fund, or BHP Billiton seeking to buy out Rio Tinto for 124 billion dollars:

finding
deciding & holding
maintaining perspective
more on these later.

Thats all for today on Minute Tech podcast.
you can reach me at minutetech@gmail.com -
and my blog is at minutetech.blogspot.com

- The iPhone's European debut; Yellowstone rises;
- What is lampwork glass?
- Cisco's earning estimates yields 9.5 Richter scale quake.

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