Andreas Lloyd

Month: September, 2008

Money as debt

With the recent news of banks and credit institutions like Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and now Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch going spectacularly bankrupt or being rescued at the last gasp by the Bank of America, I came to think of a discussion I had not too long ago with some friends on [...]

Widget-ready

So, a new theme for the blog. I haven’t finished tinkering with it yet, but I’m pretty pleased with the way the widgets in the right hand column have turned out. As you can see, they’re aggregating content from some of the various web 2.0 services I’m using, including my brand new 23 photo sharing [...]

Humble idiots

Not too long ago, I went to see Lars and the Real Girl at my local art cinema. It’s both a fun and a sad film but what sums it up best is that it’s so human. The film revolves around the unlikely situation where a introvert but sympathetic young man buys a life size [...]