Walter Hutchens’ Blog

• Trying Tweetie, iPhone Twitter app that supports multiple accounts (so works w/ my private, public and @henryhutchens parenting acct). #
• Like him or not, at least we now have an articulate president! Hallelujah! #
• Comcast OnDemand service broke down, required service call. They tried to charge ME $20 for visit. to fix THEIR prob. I canceled Comcast! #
• TV rots the brain anyway . . . enough! (But I will miss CSPAN, IFC, NatGeo . . . ) #
• Comments welcome on draft syllabus for my course on doing business in China: http://tinyurl.com/China-Syllabus-2009 #
• CNN on it’s not a depression yet: http://tinyurl.com/dxvucw Right, so long as USD holds value. Otherwise oil hyperinflation, bad cascade? #
• On the “never again” front, WashPost on coming changes in fin sector reg: http://tinyurl.com/czh76q Hope clarity improves vs 33/34 Acts. #
• Little NW college where I teach increased tuition 4.5% for next year but froze faculty salaries till Sept when they MIGHT give a 2.1% raise #
• Moved CV into Google Docs: http://tinyurl.com/Hutchens-CV #
• Sick of wrestling w/ MS Word’s formatting tyranny (“helping” me by adding/removing bullets when I didn’t!). Bye Word, hello cloud. #
• Apocalyptic photos of abandoned Detroit schools: http://tinyurl.com/6duo9r #
• An Ohio univ’s semester-long China-based study abroad program: http://tinyurl.com/cp494o I believe my school needs one, too! #
• Former SEC chair Levitt on FASB’s mark-to-mkt retreat: http://tinyurl.com/cmtpbj #
• NY Times on Chen Suibian’s corruption trial: http://tinyurl.com/d96um6 Possible Chen is both corrupt & has point about political persecution #
• When NY AG Cuomo investigates AIG, don’t you just know he sometimes imagines how great the political ads about him busting AIG will sound? #
• Not that there is anything wrong with that . . . but he was HUD secretary, and this is at root a housing market crisis. I’m just saying. #
• NY Times story on econ retrenchment uses Powell’s bookstore as lead-in: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/business/economy/27portland.html #
• I have not yet smuggled Cascade, but I confess I have thought about it: http://tinyurl.com/cgfvs8 #
• Checking out http://12seconds.tv . What’s compelling here? Am I missing something? Twitter for those who hate to type? #
• Haiku compression only part of why twitter works. Tiny gap btw thought & publication key. Won’t 12 sec vids need editing or prep, or suck? #
• Finding username “Walter” still avail on 12seconds.tv probably means I’m too early. I’m a second wave adopter, fo sure. #
• The pancake recipe on the Bisquick box if followed literally makes a batter so thick it seems to be for bagels, not pancakes. #
• PRC law luminaries held forum on draft Consumer Protection Law earlier this month http://tinyurl.com/decl2g #
• One absorbs LOTS of aesthetic pollution looking @ used furniture on Craigslist. I can take only so much then need dwell.com to flush it out. #
• Simon Johnson former IMF chief economist writes in Atlantic about advice IMF should give US http://tinyurl.com/dh24b7 #
• Finance industry captured US govt, argues Johnson. Sounds right. More @ his blog: http://baselinescenario.com/ Via NPR’s Planet Money. #
• IMF reforms, fiscal stimuli & fin sector reg overhaul on G-20 agenda, w/ US, EU & China differing, NYTimes reports http://tinyurl.com/cmx2n3 #
• Carl Icahn argues for corp. law reform in NY Times, claiming corp. gov. rules @ root of current crisis: http://tinyurl.com/Ican-NYT #

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