Archives for September 2005

I just recently purchased a Treo 600 from Ebay. It’s not exactly the latest and the greatest phone or PDA, but it meets my needs at the moment. The latest Treo from PalmOne is the Treo 650, but I’m quite happy with my slightly outdated Treo 600. I bought it because I needed a PDA and a phone with quad band capability when traveling overseas.

You will chuckle if I told you that my old Palm was the Palm V, a monochrome relic of the past. My old Nokia phone is 6300, but it will not work overseas despite having SIM capability. I’m quite happy with the Treo 600 so far.

The camera sucks, but I don’t really care about the camera function. That’s why I carry a digital camera. But, having both PDA and phone on one device is a definite plus. It’s one less thing to carry. The reception has been good although it has been a subject of many complaints by some.

Otherwise, a very solid product from Palm. I’m quite happy with it.

Tada! Check out the new WordPress Theme I just created from scratch called Cleansheet for lack of a better name. I wanted to create a theme with enough flexibility with a width greater than 650px.

The default WordPress theme I had been using in the past had a 650px width container. In the new theme, I can easily remove the right bar and expand the width all the way to the end of the screen to allow any existing webpages such as Gallery or any otherprogram to fit within the theme.

You can view the new theme by clicking here.

If you didn’t see a dramatic change in the layout, you are most likely looking at the Cleansheet theme.

Is this gouging or just good business practice? Crude oil prices this year went up 40% to $65 a barrel while gasoline prices at the pump have doubled (100%) at around $3.00 per gallon.

So, who’s making all the money you may ask?

Well, don’t get mad at the gas station owner because his profit margin is too small.

Take a look at the oil industry profits last year. Exxon Mobil pulled in $25 billion dollars, BP at $17 billion, Chevron at $13 billion, Royal Dutch (Shell) at $11 billion, and the list goes on.

Again, this is profit. Well, you know how the saying goes, “If you can’t beat them, join them.” Maybe, it’s time to start looking at investment opportunities in the oil and gas industry.