Jack Krupansky on Blogging

I bought a hot new Toshiba notebook computer at the end of the year, a Toshiba Satellite P50-AST3GX2, with Windows 8.1. I even paid an...

I got my brand new Toshiba notebook computer (P50-AST3GX2) and it was working fine until suddenly the mouse cursor disappeared and wou...

BTW, I'm blogging about the Twitter IPO on my finance blog:   http://finaxyz.blogspot.com/ -- Jack Krupansky

Wow, I finally succeeded in getting a New York state Obamacare account and application set up so that I am finally able to see plans a...

Hmmm... now that Twitter is on the verge of a stock IPO that I am interested in as an investor, I'm pondering whether I should sta...

I visited Hong Hong and China once back in the 1980's and have always been intrigued with them. Lately as I look around for new wo...

No wonder the NY Times has been struggling financially: they simply don't even know how to count!   Yesterday the NY Times claimed ...

I used to love watching Mike Wallace on Biography when I was a kid. And he definitely raised the bar with his many early years with 60 Mi...

I am finally starting to get into Prezi. It is in fact a very cool way to prepare and make presentations.   I don't yet have any ha...

Usually I cringe at the silliness of April Fool's Day, but I see that it is a perfect and natural fit for the Occupy Movement, where ...

Although the morons at Wikipedia have chosen to black out the English Wikipedia for the day in a mindless protest of the proposed Stop On...

Just when I was starting to get into my finance blogging on a more frequent basis, now I have a lead on some "real" work, so I...

I want to start blogging more on my finance blog and I am thinking that having a schedule might make sense in terms of reaching people ...

Oh well, I guess I might as well go ahead and admit that I am one of the slowest guys on the Internet. I mean, five minutes ago I had not...

There were actually a couple of short periods of time back in 2000 when I was technically a "millionaire", at least on paper (p...

On a typical Saturday I walk all around lower Manhattan (starting my walk from my apartment on East 50th Street), sometimes walking up Wa...

I've followed the whole Occupy Wall Street movement with great interest over the past month, but it is time for me to hit the "i...

After a reasonably long experimental use of Twitter, I went on a hiatus from Twitter about eighteen months ago since I felt it wasn'...

Okay, I think after 18 experiments I am finally ready to declare Mission Accomplished . One last block quote. That...

Experiment #17 seems successful, so two separate delete operations it is.   Try another list: Bold Italics Bold...

Okay, experiment #16 failed, back to tiny text, suggesting that deleting both the WLM "original message" header and th...

Experiment #15 looked fine.   For this experiment I deleted all but the signature line in one operation. This ...

Experiment #14 was fine.   For this experiment I started by forwarding my previous sent message. First deleted only the WLM ...

Experiment #13 was fine other than that I forgot to add back my email link.   Deleted some text from a forward of my original sent m...

Oops, experiment #11 was not completely successful – the first paragraph had tiny text for some unknown reason. And experiment #12 was a ...

Experiment #11 was completely successful. I think the issue with numbered lists is that if you start a list and enter as a list and th...

Experiment #10 worked quite well and all looks fine.   For this experiment, I cut out the numbered list, created a new list of ite...

Oops, in experiment #9 I mangled the list with an incorrect selection.   For this experiment, I round-tripped between "Plain text...

Experiment #8 was mostly okay, except that it showed a problem I have seen before: after a numbered list, the font reverts to th...

Experiment #7, block quote, seemed fine.   Now, here is a numbered list, numbered in WLM: Item 1. Item 2. Item 3. I...

Experiment #6 seemed fine, but when I went into HTML edit mode in the Blogger composition editor I saw TWELVE nested <div> level...

Experiment #5 was a mistake – I hit "Send Later" which apparently sent my message immediately.   Next experiment: Co...

Experiment #4 gave predictable decent results. Now, I am looking around to see if I can go into HTML edit mode in Windows Live Mail...

Actually, experiment #3 gave reasonably decent results. The font and font size looked okay (or at least close enough) and the paragrap...

Second test gave poor results. Font was okay, but line breaks and some of the blank lines were messed up.   For this experiment I took...

Okay, that first test failed, but in a predictable manner that illustrates the font problem. In this second test I switched to "plain t...

This is just a test post... I am trying to debug a font problem with my blogs. I post to all of my blogs by sending email from my PC. I...

Who exactly is rich these days? In other words, what criteria should we use to judge that someone is rich? In recent tax cut...

I was really looking forward to see the new Wall Street 2 movie ("Money Never Sleeps") and although it had quite a few good momen...

The New York Times article from Friday by Sewell Chan entitled " Small Gifts Sent to Ease U.S. Debt " that quotes me about makin...

Huh, my meager efforts to take responsibility for paying down the public debt have gotten me a little attention... in The New York Times ...

Two days ago I decided to take an indefinite  hiatus from Twitter . 48 hours later, it still feels like the right thing to do. No regrets,...

Twitter is certainly an interesting phenomenon, but it also has its annoyances. This morning I saw a brief mention of Twitter considering a...

I posted on Monday  about CheckingFinder.com  for finding community banks offering FDIC-insured high-interest checking (2-4%) and just th...

I just finished reading an essay on Edge by noted computer scientist David Gelernter entitled " Time to Start Taking the Internet Se...

It is less than eight weeks until the annual Entrepreneurial Connections (EntConnect) conference , from Thursday, March 25, 2010 through ...