CHESSNOID

I just finished watching Dancing with the Stars and to be honest with you none of the couples looked good. I was disappointed with both the formal and free style dances. I thought Mel B had the best formal dance and Helio had the best free style dance. Overall, I just wasn’t impressed compared to all the great performances they had all given this season. What happened? My guess on the who the winner will be is Marie Osmond based on her fan base and because everyone likes an underdog.

I tried to download the gOS ubuntu linux program and burned it to a cd. When I attempted to re-boot my laptop to experiment with this OS, my hard drive just kept going to windows and wouldn’t boot from the cd. I am not sure what I am missing here. I read the faq on the site but couldn’t find the answer. I might have to just buy the walmart everex gOS laptop when it comes out next year.

Most of my TV shows are ending which is freeing up a lot of spare time to continue stumbling and watching more movies. The last movie I watched was A Mighty Heart starring Dan Futterman and Angelina Jolie which is based on a true story of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl’s life and death. The subject matter is difficult to watch but worthwhile as it gives you insight to some of the experiences journalists go through to give the public important stories. I highly recommend watching the movie when you get a chance.

The stock market actually opened up today but those credit worries just crept back into investors minds. The big European bank HBSC is bailing two mortgage funds to the tune of about $45 billion. This is adding pressure on one of the US banks Citigroup to disclose how bad it really is for them. They will definitely being laying off a lot of employees soon even with the breaking news of the Abu Dhabi country, one of the United Arab Emirates giving them $7.5 billion much needed infusion. This is really more of a nice guy move by this country considering the dollar is at an all time low and still falling. Financially, it doesn’t make sense for them to put their money in that stock, but politically there must be some type of hidden agenda motivation. I am sure in time it will be more clear of who will benefit from all this.