Day August 5, 2007

Server upgrade completed

Polizeros is now running on a High CPU account at Bluehost so those CPU Exceeded errors, should be a thing of the past now. The move was quick and easy. Bluehost started the move at 10pm last night Mountain time.…

The coming mortgage drought

Comments from readers of Housing Bubble Blog “Wells Fargo just raised the interest rate on their jumbo mortgage to 8% this morning. Last week the rate was 6.78%.” A jumbo is any mortage above $417,000. As an example, let’s say…

UN issues desertification warning

Tens of millions may be displaced within the next ten years by desertification, says the UN, calling it an “environmental crisis of global proportions” Overuse of land, unsustainable irrigation, and climate change are the primary causes. When millions migrate, it…