http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=66908494 (since this is OT)

drnick, let's continue travelogue discussions over here...

Thanks. Will be mostly in silent mode for the next couple of weeks, catching up.

Singapore (similar in that you can get chicken rice everywhere). Now in Australia, probably permanently. I was referring to the Wave OT board here (http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=1878 ) but it appears to be pretty dead...

Hello all. It's been a long time since I've been here, and back then it was as EamonnShute. It's going to take me a little while to get caught up, so please bear with me and the occasional stupid question.

Good to see awk, weby and some of the other die-hards still here. We can catch up on the OT board.

I've been away!

I'm back!

WC2014 Qualifications have started. Will Australia get there this time? How far will they go? Which country do you favour to win?

Thanks. This is a good recap for a guy (me) who's been out of the picture for a little while...

MY take (and I've been arguing this for years):

http://tonymcfadden.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/global_hooey/

Australia, and will be for a while. Permanent Residence acquired a couple of months ago.

Good to hear from you.

Wave has had a good 2010, so far. Now I've got to get back to work. I'll be back on at the end of my day (your tomorrow)

What's news, boys. It's been awhile. In a position to start being interested in this again...

...hit send instead of preview - a little rusty.

HAppy New Year to all the old timers here. Awk, you've got a PM.

IMMR board appears to be dead...but latest news from Nokia is great.

Anybody still read this?

"looks too good to be gay"

huh.

I thought looking good was a leading indicator...

My daughter had a 19th birthday last weekend and wanted to go see a movie with the family. In a rare occurance, her brother (14) agreed, immediately, to go see Duplicity. Daughter drawn by Julia Roberts, son drawn by Clive Owens and I just went along to pay for the popcorn.

I really enjoyed the movie, mainly because I like Paul Giamatti is everything (except, ironically, Sideways -- but I didn't like anything in that movie) and the double and triple crossing was amusing.

Both kids hated it.

If you're going to see a luminous Julia Roberts, stay home. If you like triple crossing twists (and trysts) and turns, it's amusing, but you don't need to see it on the big screen.

3 out of 4

Jon Stewart gives Cramer a well deserved spanking...

http://blog.indecisionforever.com/2009/03/13/jon-stewart-and-jim-cramer-the-extended-daily-show-interview/

Oh, and by the way, the dems had to fly a guy in from his mothers funeral to get this passed...

You are blinded with partisan politics.

I already told you that based on my first reading, less than half of that bill is the kind of stimulus needed...rebuilding schools, military and gov facilities, etc. Tax cuts are pointless. Spending that doesn't kick in for 18 months, or longer, is pointless. The less than 400billion in infrastructure is more than enough to kick start things. The rest is earmarks.

To allow politicians to abrogate responsibility this early into the first term is not a good sign for the future. For God's sake, Pelosi had a provision to spend some 10 million on the preservation of some freakin' swamp mouse. You really want your tax dollars spent on that?

I guarantee you, if the politicians thnk that they can roll the public this easy, this early, there will be bullsh~t bills like this for the next 4 years.

...and just so there's no confusion, some of the things in the bill may actually be beneficial, but have no place added to a non-debated stimulus bill.

Weby, the bill, as approved, has billlions in non-stimulus related spending (download copies of it here http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=1694 and read it -- something the politicos approving this failed to do)

There are billions that won't be spent for at least two years. How does THAT help?

Yes, rebuild schools, roads and other labour intensive infrastrucure projects. Fastest way to get the economy going and confidence up. I think (and I will try to do a detailed look at the bill in the next couple of days) that those types of confidence and economy building stimulants make up about $300 - $400 billion of the bill. The rest really can't be considered much more than vote buying...

$1,000,000,000 for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance
$3,000,000,000 for 'necessary expenses for a ‘‘Prevention and Wellness Fund’’
$39,500,000,000 not available until July 1, 2010 for a "State Fiscal Stabilisation Plan", what ever that is.

How does that stimulate things?

This is money that generations of tax payers will have to give back.

As someone described it, it's like taking buckets of water from the deep end of the pool, spilling half of it on the ground and pouring the rest in the shallow end in an attempt to make the shallow end deeper.

Yes, spending is needed. But for legislators to sign off on something this frickin' huge without even reading it is extremely irresponsible. If I don't scrutinise invoices for $50,000 I'm irresponsible. This is outrageous.

So, my American friends, what's wrong with this picture?


o $800 billion in tax cuts and spending
o no (nada, zero, zilch) support from the republicans
o even 7 democrats voted nay (bipartisan rejection?)
o text released less than 24 hours before the vote.


WTF?

Markets are leading indicators.

The market doesn't like this 'package'

Again, WTF?

Your government is sinking the rest of the world. Rein those mothers in, please.

Blackberry communications, when setup as a corporate service (and the White House would be the 'corporation') is the most secure civilian comms system out there.

But I tihnk the secret squirrel guys will insist on something more secure from theiy kit bag.

In USA only (he said, from Australia)

As a singer, Pierce Brosnan makes a good spy.

So everyone is assuming it's Dell?

Don't get me wrong, it probably IS Dell, but it would be nice to get some unequivocalness from these guys once and awhile.

Assuming is something I try very hard to avoid.

The 8K doesn't specifically name Dell. Has Wave categorically confirmed to be Dell?

I love the onion.com

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/shitload_of_math_due_monday

The idiot distributors of that movie here in Australia have decided that the less than 5% of the population that is not Christian would be offended by the title and have changed it to "Four Holidays".

So stupid.

Which four? Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and Easter?

Well I won't be coaching the club team this year. My son has been selected for a local repesentative team. He's pretty stoked. I'll try and keep my hand in helping out, if they'll let me...

The team was (allegedly) only looking for two players this year, keeping most of the team from last year, so getting selected was very good. Of course he's got pace, is strong on the ball and has a fantastic left foot.

If I may offer a bit of balance...

1) Doubling of revenue next quarter - CEO would not say this several times if he was not very confident. There may be more large orders that more than double revenue.

--> Just because he said it doesn't make it so. Re-listen to the 'forward looking statements' words


2) We will be very close to break even in the current quarter and likely profitable next quarter.

--> Only if 1) holds, and there has been NOTHING in this company's history that met SKS's projections


3) Maybe this should be #1. Joe Trippi ran Obama's social network which helped get him elected. For those of you who don't know Joe was an early WAVOID and was at shareholder meetings, COMDEX, EEE, etc. He even worked for Wave for a while helping with PR. I would guess that Joe would push Obama to use Wave's products for many gov't depts. I'm sure no one will be an unauthorized reader of Obama's emails like what happenned to Sarah Palin.

--> Joe Trippi could be good, but Palin's email was on Yahoo. Who in their right mind thinks Yahoo would have 'secure' mail?

4) Wave remains in business with no long term debt and no need for a gov't bailout.


--> Sez who?


5) Wavexpress will probably be sold cutting our costs and creating a partner to push Wave's products.

--> Would be a good decision...


6) Steven is one of the smartest CEO's I have ever heard. He is learning so much every year and remains very young at 44 y/o. He will be leading this company for the next 20-30 years.

--> I worked for a small company that grew substantially, and the CEO was smart enough to step aside while the board hired a CEO that could handle a larger company. It would be foolish to think that SKS could manage this company as/if it grows larger...he's struggling as it is.


7) We have a great group of loyal shareholders who are hanging onto their shares and buying more.

--> True, the shareholders are loyal, but I think the lost opportunities, missed because money has been tied up in this company is a bit sad, but it's you money (or it was...)

8) We have Dell, IBM, Acer, Seagate, Infineon, NEC, etc as great partners.

--> Haven't they been around for quite some time?


Accumulating for many years and have more shares than ever. No plan to sell until we hit double digits.

You'll notice I wrote that I had to "achieve some measure of performance"

Bonuses ARE given in Q1 in many companies.

I, for example, will get paid my bonus (assuming I achieve some measure of performance) on March 15th, based on the performance of me and my team for the second half of 2008. I believe most companies operate like this.

When do YOU think Wave pays bonus money?

Thanks for posting this. Was planning to post this here also -- you saved me the effort.

Particularly like this article...it has actual data to support it. And echoes what I've been telling anyone who would listen for the past two years.

Again, a Canadian (me) living in an entirely different country (Oz) pokes his nose in.

A very sane read:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102302867_pf.html


"Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who's been cramming on these issues for the past year, who's never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of "a world that stands as one"), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as "the tragedy of 9/11," a term more appropriate for a bus accident?

Or do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most serious foreign policy thinker in the United States Senate? A man who not only has the best instincts but has the honor and the courage to, yes, put country first, as when he carried the lonely fight for the surge that turned Iraq from catastrophic defeat into achievable strategic victory?"




"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. - Carl Sagan

a niche player with a poor ranking in the "ability to execute" space.

I'll wait.

Um, view not shared by all...

http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=1347

"The movie was made for the brain dead, the catatonic, and those who have taken allergy medicine and are unable to stay awake."

edit: since I plan on seeing it, I'm in the first category

While both candidates had a helluva hard time actually answering the questions posed by Jim Lehrer, I still think McCain took this one. Obama doesn't seem as comfortable without prepared material...McCain wins foreign policy hands down (although he had a hard time pronouncing Ahmanutjob's name)

My wife got a Dell laptop some months ago with Vista and we were both ready to heave the thing through a window (and my wife, who has no sense of humor usually, said "This is why they call it Windows, right? 'Cause you want to find one...").

In fact, it was the Dell, with the very poorly performing Vista that drove me to my first Mac (iMac's are fantastic).

But I'm afraid I may have been unnecessarily maligning Vista. There is a Dell supplied app called pcmservice.exe that was chewing up 80% of cpu and 100% of RAM resources...renamed the sucker to pcmservice.~xe and the laptop flies. I've got no real problem with Vista now, except for it's inability to deal with my Canon printer properly...

I'm expecting a very gender based biased on the scores for this one...

(without seeing it, I give it a 1 out of 4)

Down under

http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/apples-sydney-store-teaser/2008/05/26/1211653914950.html

<snip>
Two other smaller Apple Stores - one in Sydney's North Shore suburb of Chatswood and the other in Melbourne's Chadstone shopping centre - are also under development and will probably open after the main Sydney store throws open its doors.

That is expected to happen at 6pm on Thursday, June 19.

<snip>

I have the distinct pleasure of having a great group of 12 and 13 year olds to coach. In six games we are undefeated (5 wins and one draw) and only 2 goals against over those 6 games.

I'd like to take credit, but it's the 11 on the pitch every week producing those results. They play a very pleasing to the eye game of football. Lots of short passing into space plenty of pace, and a back four that acts like a single brick wall (last weekend's game the keeper touched the ball twice, and once was for a goal kick).

I wonder how long we can keep the clean sheet streak going. They haven't let a goal past the line in three and a half games now.

In almost all cases training involves small-sided games to reinforce a skill or technique so no player is standing around bored (or getting cold in our rapidly approaching Austrlia winter). An added benefit is that if I can keep them running for the full 90 minutes of training (excluding drink breaks), a 60 minute game should be a piece of cake.

Sorry, provocative, not provacative.