January 2009 Archives

This is a Mac SE that I acquired at a Computer Preservation Society give-away a few years back. The 20MB (yes, 20 Megabyte) hard drive is a bit temperamental, but after leaving it next to a radiator for a while I managed to get it to boot on the fifth or sixth attempt. The application shown is, of course, HyperCard.

In 2008, the Invisible Hand was caught in the Invisible Till, and markets around the globe crashed in one of those freak, once-in-a-million-centuries events that happens every four or five years. As such, it seemed like a good time to improve my woefully limited knowledge of finance, if only to learn what used to be in that big, smoking crater. To this end, I borrowed a couple of books written by prominent nay-sayers in the field.