Author: Matthew Knell

My favorite quote in regards to the final price for JPMorganChase’s purchase of Bear Sterns from the WSJ Online: “I’ve got to think we can get more in a liquidation, I’m not selling my shares, this price is dramatically less than the book value Alan Schwartz told us the company is worth,” said a midlevel… Continue reading Bear Sterns.. sold for $2 a share…

Social networks bring up a lot about you… your job history, relationship history…. but recently for me, it’s been about my ELEMENTARY school history! First comes the fact that I found a really old friend on Facebook (like, the last time I talked to her was 15 years ago), and she’s doing really well… then… Continue reading 2nd grade… last one on the right, second row…

Photo Source: Walgreen’s Historical Archive via New York Times. The site of the new Walgreen’s at One Times Square (the top of which is where the ball drops from) between 42nd and 43rd streets was actually the site of a Walgreen’s for 40 years from 1930 to 1970.

If this kid, Clayton Kershaw – who is just 19 years old, doesn’t blow out his arm, Major Leaguers are in some big trouble. This thing is wicked.

I use a Mac in every aspect of my computing life (work included for the first time), and the repetitive crashing of Firefox has just become way too frustrating.   So, now I’m installing Flock 1.1 and hoping it’s not as cranky.   I used Flock 1.0 for a while, and really liked it, and with 1.1… Continue reading Flock + Tagsmith.org

I finally got around to updating my resumé page here…. Take a look if you like – it should have all of my work-y goodness. Plus, I wanted a post that didn’t involve solely my Twitterfeed for the day. I also fixed the display of posts on the front page…. thank goodness for WordPress making… Continue reading Hectic few weeks…

For the team, who most people didn’t think had a chance of doing anything (myself included), this Super Bowl victory for the Giants is sweet, sure, but also ridiculously surreal.  I just can’t put into words how shocking it is – but, man, does it feel good. Congratulations to the GGGGGGGGG-men! See you on… Continue reading We are the champions…

Sunday morning here has bloomed with a beautifully sunny day here in New York, and I have the extreme fortune to view it from a pretty high floor in a building overlooking Manhattan. It’s with much hope and wonder that Giants fans (myself included) will watch Super Bowl XLII with the chance for the team… Continue reading Of chocolate…

So, how about that little tiny $46.8 billion dollar offer for Yahoo that our old friends up in Redmond made on Friday? Hundreds of blogs have analyzed the financial terms of the deal (Yahoo probably won’t get a better offer), what it says for online advertising (Microsoft is hurting in pay-per-click, and the failure of… Continue reading Micro-hoo?

After about 4 years of looking at the same page design, I decided to junk the whole thing and start again with a WordPress blog. It’s going to be under construction for a while (who’s personal site isn’t these days), but for now… welcome.