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Nice tidbit in today’s Deal Journal about clawbacks kicking in for Blackstone. The sad thing is that if returns really do drop, and these clawback ever kick in, they could get a do over by starting another fund. I’ve been wondered about this for a while.

From today’s Merc:

Earlier this month, weather forecasters began noticing something was amiss in the running total of rainfall totals.
“There would be more added to the total – when there wasn’t any rain. When there was rain, the numbers were subtracted,” said forecaster Steve Anderson. “It’s a total nightmare.”
It’s all because of a bad Unix [...]

Interesting OpEd piece in the WSJ today by Alan Greenspan on the mortgage crisis.
The 100 word version:
The fall of communism opens up new labor markets who’s biggest export was deflation. Developing countries saved too much driving global long term interest rates to record lows, fueling a speculative bubble. Central banks raised short term [...]

Yesterday I got a vivid reminder of how much companies can save when they use Open Source.
SnapLogic might be different from a lot of small companies in that we’ve already got people scattered around the globe. But for any company with remote office and employees, our experiences surely apply.
Our headquarters are in San [...]

The Facebook Beacon privacy issues are swirling around blogospere today (here, here, here, here and here).
There’s a lot of technical analysis deconstruction Beacon behavior and some packet traces that confirm what’s actually happening on the wire.
One thread discusses the issues surrounding gathering affiliate interactions when a user is not logged into Facebook. [...]