Archive for September, 2007

GDF merges with Suez

Gaz de France (GAZ.PA) and Suez (LYOE.PA) on Monday agreed to create the world’s third-largest listed power and gas company after President Nicolas Sarkozy stepped in to prevent the 18-month old deal from collapsing.

The politically charged “merger of equals,” delayed by disputes over valuation and control, will be on the basis of 21 Gaz de France shares for 22 Suez shares and involves the partial spin-off of Suez’s water and waste-management activities.

General Electric buys Sondex

U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co. (GE.N) has agreed to buy British maker of oilfield services equipment Sondex Plc (SDX.L) for 288.7 million pounds ($583.1 million) in cash, the two companies said on Monday.

General Electric, whose interests span technology, media, energy and financial services, will pay 460 pence a share for Sondex, which designs, makes and markets electro-mechanical based equipment for oilfield service companies.

Otherwise, it was a pretty uneventful weekend.

I have released the newest version of Stuffr.

Stuffr, a desktop blogging client for Windows, has a streamlined design that works in conjuction with multiple weblog platforms.

With customizable toolbars, syntax highlighting, and smart prompts, Stuffr offers you all of the tools needed for speedy and convenient posting.

Stuffr allows you to save drafts or publish entries to your blog in real time, but it also offers the choice of saving the post locally for further review and editing.

Stuffr currently supports Movable Type and Wordpress blogs, as well as Tumblr TumbleLogs.

Stuffr’s features include:

Blogging (Movable Type & WordPress):

• Post drafts and publish posts
• Save drafts locally
• Editing posts and drafts
• Multiple blog accounts
• Multiple categories
• Add Categories (WP 2.2+ Only)
• Trackbacks
• Post date modification
• Add files, images, links and web videos (from YouTube, Vimeo, College Humor, and MetaCafe)
• HTML syntax highlighting
• Technorati tags
• Pinging multiple update services
• Four customizable tag buttons
• It’s 100% free, with no ads or spyware!

TumbleLogs (Tumblr):

• Post Text Entries
• Add Photos
• Cite Quotations
• Link to your favorite sites
• Paste an online chat conversation
• Embed Video

Version 0.9.3 includes the following bug fix:

• Uploading files was not using the file upload path correctly and Stuffr was not saving the file upload location.

For more information on changes included in each version of Stuffr, check the history.txt file that accompanies the file.

Stuffr, with it’s intuitive design, does what a blogging client should, and it does it quickly and efficiently.

So when you have a lot on your mind, take your thoughts and Stuff ‘em!

Will someone explain to me how this is a good thing for U.S. consumers?

The Bush administration can proceed with a plan to open the U.S. border to long haul Mexican trucks as early as next week after an appeals court rejected a bid by labor, consumer and environmental interests to block the initiative.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco late on Friday denied an emergency petition sought by the Teamsters union, the Sierra Club and consumer group Public Citizen to halt the start of a one-year pilot program that was approved by Congress after years of legal and political wrangling.

The Transportation Department welcomed the decision and said in a statement that allowing more direct shipments from Mexico will benefit U.S. consumers.

It takes jobs away from Americans more than willing to do them, it opens consumers up to more risk, as the trucks may not be inspected, and it opens our drivers up to those who may not be knowledgeable about our traffic laws. I won’t even get into the insurance issues either.

Someone, please enlighten me.

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