Do away with Google? Break up Facebook? We can't imagine life without them—and that's the problem

Scott Langmack has given more than US$600,000 in unsecured loans to strangers.

"I can reliably get 12 per cent, worst case 9 per cent," said Mr Langmack, 50, a former Microsoft marketing executive who began investing in so-called peer-to-peer lending last year. "I can't find anything that gives me this kind of confidence."

ROBOCOPY.exe (XP Resource Kit/Standard Vista command)

Robust File and Folder Copy.
By default Robocopy will only copy a file if the source and destination have different time stamps or different file sizes.

4:30 pm : Stocks may have closed with substantial losses Friday, but the extent of the downturn was far better than many initially feared.

Index futures were limit down ahead of the session's opening bell, which occurs when trading is halted in order to pace losses amid frantic selling efforts. That had participants spooked and anticipating a large scale sell-off.

But I thought they lost the war, even with Perl Harbor...

Writely = Microsoft's Pearl Harbor? by ZDNet's Dan Farber -- In response to my post Blog swarm on Writely, Gary Edwards (who is steeped in OpenDoc and OpenOffice) penned this TalkBack:To understand why this deal is Peal Harbor for Microsoft, and a declaration of all out war for Google, i think one has to make a leap and consider that this isn't about applications. It's about [...]