Whew. Mtgs finally done for today. Wednesday has become Meetingpalooza.
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Twitter Update (#860119434)
My engaged step-brother just asked me for marriage advice. I’m flattered! I said: be honest, have time to yourself, and keep separate accts.
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Twitter Update (#860008541)
It’s shaping up to be an interesting day. …Yes, *that* kind of interesting. Better busy than bored, after all.
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links for 2008-07-16
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While doing some research on the state of the banking industry, I came across this little gem which I’d heard rumors about. When Huntington purchased Sky, it seems Sky didn’t mention all the sub-prime mortgages they had on the books…
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“Viacom and other copyright holders have agreed to let YouTube mask user IDs and Internet addresses when Google Inc.’s online video site hands over viewership records in a $1 billion lawsuit accusing YouTube of enabling copyright infringement.”
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What kind of paranoid world do we live in, where a father can’t even take photos of his own children in a public park?
Financially Speaking
I’m not a financial analyst; far from it. However, I did work for a financial institution for five years, and I lost my job as a result of that financial institution, Sky Financial Group, being acquired by Huntington Bancshares.
Since Huntington gave me a quite reasonable retention bonus and severance package (most of which still remains in my high-yield savings), and since my job loss was the catalyst for a new and better career move, and (most importantly) since my severance agreement included a clause against publishing negative commentary about the company, I’m disinclined to talk smack about Huntington.
However, that doesn’t mean I’m not curious about how they’re faring in the current financial climate. I’ve remained blissfully ignorant of most of the happenings of the bank since I left, with only a few bits and pieces making it my way through the grapevine. Now that things are coming to even more of a head in the financial world, though, I find myself wondering how that merger worked out for them.
Not so good, it seems.