Month: August 2004

  • Who is Gary Winnick (and why I am writing about him?)

    You may not know Gary Winnick, but at one time the fund manager who looked after your pension probably knew his name. For over two decades, Gary Winnick worked at the sharp practice end of capitalism. In the 1980s he worked with Michael Milken Drexel Burnham Lambert (Drexel) selling junk bonds. These were used to…

  • Thumb Drive Gospel

    To understand the thumb drive you have to understand computer memory. In the beginning there was memory, and it was called flash. It was small, expensive but convenient and the geeks saw that it was good. What is a thumb drive? Research done at Microsoft recently found that much of the time the most effective…

  • Five star living

    Trendwatching is back with a pattern that they call five star living, where property developers and high-end resort or hotels sell a home away from home to the super dumb but loaded. They put a whole pile of luxury living brand experience about it, but what they are seeing is the window dressing not the…