While you’re wondering how much food to stock up on for the coming food shortages, here’s something that should provide some relief, if correct: a new report is predicting oil prices will start to fall. In a new report, Lehman Brothers’s oil strategist says that supply will catch up to demand, thanks to new refining projects coming online:
Inventories have been building since the beginning of the year. We have pretty significant projects starting soon in Saudi Arabia, and large off-shore fields in Nigeria…
I hope he’s right. There’s a part of me that believes that the high gas prices are hoping to spur automobile fuel efficiency, but in the short run it’s driving up the cost of everything. And that’s damn scary.
I was working over at the Web 2.0 Expo yesterday, and one of the guys I work with at Techweb, Fritz Nelson, came into the show office with an awesome balloon logo for the event. He said that the guy who does balloon animals for kids over at the Chevy’s restaurant on 3rd & Howard was bugging him to make an animal (not sure why, he was with a group of adults), and after initially blowing him off, Fritz thought better of it and commissioned the guy to make this:
Pretty cool. Fritz said he’s going to use it somehow in his video coverage of Web 2.0 Expo on Techweb.com.
Here’s a short clip of my team (from the Marin Rowing Association) on the San Francisco Bay, in the waters near San Quentin — our home course. Filmed in late March ‘08, this was a practice 2k race in preparation for the San Diego Crew Classic that took place at the beginning of April (which we won). We’re the first boat shown in the video (among 4-5 others shown); I’m the last guy in bow with the red jacket.
Apr 24th, 2008
