by Chris Walters | Jul 19, 2015 | Vacation
Limmat River in Zurich Tim chilling at Valley Hostel before check-in Overlooking the Limmat River in downtown Zurich Lauterbrunnen Tim in his bunk bed in Valley Hostel Staubbach Falls in Lauterbrunnen Fraumünster Church in Zurich View from Yungfraujoch Grossmünster...
by Chris Walters | Dec 24, 2013 | Family
Dear Family and Friends, As the year 2013 draws to a close, our family has much for which to be thankful. Tim is in a 3rd grade gifted class at Lincoln Elementary, studying several subjects at the 4th grade level. He is an avid reader and has read several novels, such...
by Chris Walters | Jun 18, 2011 | Domain Registration, Troubleshooting, Web Hosting
GoDaddy is violating well-established ICANN regs: “A registrant change to Whois information is not a valid reason to deny a transfer request.” I just got off the phone with a GoDaddy representative and a supervisor. The CSR stuck to policy. The supervisor...
by Chris Walters | Mar 28, 2011 | Economics
Lower Corp. Taxes=Higher Returns? I saw this earlier today on CNBC. Interesting tidbit after last night’s 60 Minutes story on companies domiciling overseas for tax reasons, like Transocean in Switzerland. Companies in the S&P 500 paid about 20% versus the...
by Chris Walters | Jan 2, 2011 | Economics, Education
I recently received a forwarded email bemoaning the “deindustrialization of America is a national crisis.” I usually do not give much thought to forwarded emails, but since this one was full of red herrings and questionable facts / statistics and...