Librarian, Father, Husband, Oilers Fan
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U2's Bono loses out as Hewlett-Packard swoops on Palm for $1.2bn - Telegraph
"Bono’s private equity venture, Elevation Partners, owns an approximate 30pc stake in Palm, having invested $460m in the struggling handset maker in 2007 and 2008. The H-P deal values Palm’s equity at $961m – the rest of the deal price is debt – meaning Elevation’s stake will be worth roughly $320m."
via telegraph.co.ukJoey Moss - Edmonton Oilers' unsung hero
via youtube.com...and to think, they fired “Sparky” Kulchisky. The Oilers are starting to make the Harold Ballard years in Toronto look better by the week.
Oilers V. Leafs
It does not get any better than the Leafs/Oilers game tonight! Well I guess that Panthers/Blue Jackets game the other month was pretty big as well. Go Oil!
What happens when Generation X is teaching Generation Me?
"He's not alone among 30-something faculty members struck by emerging characteristics common among many of their "Generation Me" students. Traits include a strong sense of entitlement, a need for instant gratification, and an apparent lack of any kind of filter. "Everything is shared at all times, without a sense of place or status." Terry Byrnes is an English professor who joined Concordia the year Lafrance was born. He, too has seen big changes in everything from basic behavior, such as students routinely leaving class to go to the washroom or send text messages, to the fragile cultural literacy of incoming students."
Andre Rieu #2 in UK top 40 Albums
The Official UK Top 40 Albums Chart shows Andre Rieu's Forever Vienna number 2 for the week. For the record, ahead of Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Rihanna, Taylor Swift. The UK charts are always a little strange but without a doubt this is very strange.
kentongood.com lives
Thanks to the ability to point a domain name against the free posterous service, my old kentongood.com domain lives to fight another day.
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Kenton Good's Posterous
Librarian, Father, Husband, Oilers Fan
