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A Geek's Bookshelf: An Investment Strategy for the Long Term
Book Review - Value Averaging: The Safe and Easy Strategy for Higher Investment Returns
By: Gary Cornell
Feb. 16, 2008 12:15 PM
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What I am going to do in this regular column is feed my habit by highlighting some of the books I am reading, and (mostly) enjoying. (I will only rarely write negative reviews; it’s a rare book that I “do not put down gently but throw across the room with great force” after all.)
Finally, since I remain involved with Apress
(www.apress.com), the publishing company for IT professionals I helped found,
is there any potential for a conflict of interest? I don’t think so nor do the
kind people at SYS-CON; the type of books I will be Title: Value Averaging: The Safe and Easy Strategy for Higher
Investment Returns
There are 8,909 books listed on Amazon.com with the word “Investing” in the title; there are(!) 27,146 books with the word investment in the title. Without having looked at a representative sample, I can be confident that Sturgeon’s Law applies – I suspect if I sampled enough of them I would find that 90% greatly underestimates the amount of junk in this particular area. Page 1 of 2 next page »
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Geeks like to read – and not only programming books. Most of
us read incessantly. Whether it’s popular science, sci-fi or fantasy, a good
thriller or an occasional popular history book or biography, it’s a rare geek
who isn’t in love with books. And I am no exception, although I have to confess
I am rather an extreme case since my love of books and eclectic tastes borders
on the “gentle madness” aka “bibliomania.”
reviewing are the books I
read “non-professionally” –for fun – in my spare time. It is only these books,
rather than professional books, that I will review. 
Citrix has tapped its VP
of channels and emerging
product sales Al
Monserrat to replace its
departing sales chief
John Burris, who, as
previously reported, is
going to Sourcefire as
CEO. A couple of years
ago Monserrat was
responsible for Citrix'
North American sales.
Meanwhile, Citrix
Microsoft and its
cross-platform,
Flash-rivaling,
RIA-building Silverlight
plug-in are being sued in
San Francisco for patent
infringement by a
no-profile Massachusetts
outfit called Gotuit
Media Corporation. The
thin seven-page suit and
its venue comes
compliments of California
lawyer 
Microsoft earned $4.3
billion on revenues of
$15.84 billion, up 18%,
in its fourth fiscal
quarter in June, making
it a $60 billion company
- compliments of emerging
markets and demand for
Windows Server 2008. It
had better-than-expected
Vista sales this time
through, up to $4.37
billio 
Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in
February '08 and
Microsoft launched
Silverlight (September
'07). At the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo in
October SYS-CON Events is
delighted to be
