Archive for the 'Property' Category

Bullion value calculator is pretty much done

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

The bullion value calculator I created using Google App Engine now allows you to login with your Google Account. If you sign in and enter some values, it will store them. The next time you visit, the values you entered will be populated. If you enter new values, those will be the ones […]

This Schiff video never gets old for me

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Listen to the optimists arguments and listen to Schiff’s arguments. This is a good battle from July of last year about the state of the economy and what is going to happen.

The AppEngine bullion market value calculator is working

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Apparently there’s a memcache problem with Google App Engine. Renaming my memcache key caused my app to work.
This is all in reference to my post a few days ago where I mentioned my Google App Engine Bullion Value Calculator.
Update 2008-06-17: The problems came back, so I surrounded the problem spots with try/except blocks and […]

A bullion market value calculator using Google App Engine

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I went to a Python meetup and went through some of the Google App Engine tutorial. It wasn’t long before I started making a tool that I’ve looked for but haven’t found. The tool probably exists somewhere, but I took the opportunity to make the simple tool and […]

United States Dollar falls below 7.30 millibarrels of light sweet crude oil

Friday, June 6th, 2008

The dollar started the week at 7.85 millibarrels and even climbed up above 8.17 millibarrels. But today alone it has fallen over a half millibarrel. Source of today and source of earlier.

CFR’s Benn Steil testifies by pricing other commodities in gold

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Someone pointed me to cnn money the other day but I found Benn Steil’s testimony more interesting. And now today I found another article by Steil from last year. While I don’t agree with him on everything, he appears to have a handle on history and the current situation. Plus he […]