http://bit.ly/gO0wS9

"Under the terms being negotiated, the New York Stock Exchange — which began in 1792 when brokers gathered beneath a buttonwood tree in lower Manhattan to trade five securities of the new nation — would still have a headquarters in Manhattan. But the Deutsche Börse would own as much as 60 percent of the combined company, which would be incorporated in the Netherlands."

Read an interesting short story by Roberto Bolaño entitled "The insufferable Gaucho".

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/10/01/071001fi_fiction_bolano

Learned about Bolaño's collections of short stories in the Fall 2010 | Winter 2011 New Directions catalog.  

Their catalogs make interesting reading. For the internet addicted, their new titles are here:

http://ndpublishing.com/

“Your mom and your boyfriend are rarely in the same room,” she said, “and that’s why Christmas and Thanksgiving are such a stressful time for people, because their worlds collapse. On Facebook you’re in a long extended Thanksgiving dinner with everyone you ever knew, and people find that difficult to deal with.”

What is Joomla?

Joomla is a content management system (CMS) which enables you to build Web sites and online applications.

Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

http://www.joomla.org/about-joomla.html

What are CloudAccess and CloudBase?

Joomla! templates are a great way to jumpstart your site's look and feel. CloudAccess.net's new Joomla! 1.5 template, CloudBase, provides you with an instant way to get your business online and looking good. Best of all, it's free!

http://www.cloudaccess.net/

Where should I start before installing the Jubii! Demo?

Start with this help.

http://help.joomla.org/files/VisualGuide15.pdf

When you have scanned some of these pages you will have a better idea of what to do with Joonla! version 1.6 now in Beta 9

You can now understand your favorite Black Angus cow (not quite a cow, obviously).

Very interesting to see the difference between two reviews of the 1999 Bruce Willis film "The Sixth Sense".

Roger Ebert is here:            http://bit.ly/aKI8Bf

Stephen Holden is here:    http://nyti.ms/dc0O60

Don't think this movie will be added to our Netflix queue.

Are the feet on a wild turkey this big?

The footprints are about three inches in size.

This red flower appeared at the end of July. It was in the same area last year, but I do not recall planting it.

It competes with day lilies, ground cover and the inevitable ferns.

According to zillow.com, the property at 93 Hillyndale Rd has a Zestimate of $250,000.

The actual sale price was $217,000.

Neighbors are breathing easier now that the home has not been purchased by a slumlord wanting to rent to UCONN students.