Truth is out of style
Robert X. Cringely would like us all to know that what the business world needs is more bullshit. Apparently he's very impressed with some Indian entrepeneur - I think he's called Sumantra Roy - who is...
View ArticleMad Kevin's Crazy Bargains!
This is a bit of a specialised post. It will only be of interest to people who: 1: Are in Australia, and 2: Have an Australian Business Number, OR 3: Are an independent primary or secondary school...
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Hey buddy! Wanna buy me a computer?
The computer on which I'm writing this is still the dual-core Athlon I wrote about in early 2006. Since then, it's had some new RAM, a new video card and about as many hard drives as I could stuff into...
View ArticlePower factor. Again. I'm sorry.
Regular readers will know that the world currently teems with "power saving" devices, which are alleged to use Power-Factor Correction to save you money on your electricity bill. These things are...
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Seeking (Economic) Enlightenment
I think I'm about as susceptible as any other human to having my opinions formed by someone else. All I have to do for this to happen is read someone else's opinion about something, before seeing that...
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Pls snd $$ to get $$$$$, tnx
The pitter-pat of bogus PayPal money requests, from lazy thieves seeking obliging victims, continues. I like this one. Yep, this dude's running an advance-fee scam. If I send him $US200, he'll allow me...
View ArticleAn undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is
A reader writes: Hi Dan, In Melbourne we have been observing small white hand-written signs popping up on the sides of roads affixed to all sorts of posts and street signs. The signs are all similar...
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You have money you didn't know about! Give us some of it!
I love it when I don't have to go looking for an interestingly fishy business proposal, because some obliging organisation mails it to me. (It's even better than unsolicited crank e-mail.) Strictly...
View ArticlePlease at least pay us for the postage
A reader writes: I don't know if this really qualifies as a science question, but: How do bills for zero dollars and zero cents get sent to people? I'm guessing that it's something like the process you...
View ArticleCatches fire, would buy again, AAA+++!
I bought a couple of sets of red LED lights on eBay; two ten-metre 100-LED strings for $US15.96 delivered. You know the ones. Little lightweight controller box that always starts in...
View ArticleZero to Kafka in five minutes, or no money back
OK, whippin' up the ol' Business Activity Statement for the first quarter of this year, tum te tum, run the special government BAS-management software and... it tells me I'd better renew my AUSkey...
View ArticleThat ain't workin', that's the way you do it!
I received this yesterday: From: [redacted] To: dan@dansdata.com Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 20:49:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Dan's Data Page Hello Dan, I came across your website, dansdata.com, this evening. I...
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MAKING money for nothing and FINDING chicks for free
In the comments to my post about people who think that all I do is beg for money on the Internet, Fallingwater asked: Do you think a single, low-expense person can actually, really make a living with a...
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A metallurgical detective story
There are people on eBay selling "liquid metal bullion". They don't like to tell you exactly what metal this alleged "bullion" is, except they always swear it doesn't have any mercury in it. They...
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All that glisters
I've written often about scams, of one kind or another. I find them fascinating. I've tied myself in knots classifying this one, though. To my mind most examples of it are clearly over the "scam" line,...
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