Dow 14,000

Dow tops 14,000 on 07/19/07.

"I think it's only a number and it's not really material," said Rob Lutts, chief investment officer of Cabot Money Management. "What's much more important is the fundamental factors in our economy and what those trends are."

Dow tops 13,000 on 04/25/07.

"In and of itself, [Dow 13,000] is not very important for the market," said Jay Suskind, director of trading at Ryan, Beck & Co.
"Psychologically, it shows the market has been doing well and draws retail-type investors," he said. "But this may not be such a good thing, as retail investors often show up late to the party."

Dow tops 12,000 on 10/18/06

12,000 is just a number--just as 11,000 was when the Dow crossed that level six-and-a-half years ago. We surveyed Wall Street prognosticators to see if investors should begin to party like it was 1999 (again). The consensus seems to be that conditions for equity investors are good, but not great.

Dow tops 11,000 for the first time since 2001.

Dow tops 10,000 on 03/30/99 .

When it hit 1000 for the first time, which was back in the 60's, I believe, it backed off immediately and took a long, long time for it to get back there, I mean more than ten years, I think. So in that case, it was a high water mark that was not returned to for quite a while. But when you have seen it at other levels, such as say 5000, which was less than four years ago, it just really kept on going. So you can't really make generalizations about what it will do from here. There is, of course, the initial reaction which is, well it's going to go almost -- it's always going to go higher because there is so much euphoria around. But you can't guarantee that, either. It's really a toss up.

But, when the Dow topped 9,000 in June of 1998! Watch out!
We got multiple warnings of World War III!

Good use of google maps?

This guy is working on a google map to help track stolen bikes in Portland.

The city of Portland has 341 bikes reported with valid addresses.

It's sad that so many bikes are stolen.

Simple Google Maps

I tried to use KML to map the Portland Public Schools (PPS), but it seems like there's a definite limit on the number of items you can map this way. When I load the map I get an error: "Parts of http://www.rdrop.com/~moss/... could not be displayed because it is too large."

I don't think the limit is due to file size. I've compressed the KML to a KMZ and that didn't make a difference. Also, I removed a bunch of the data from the description to make the size smaller -- no change. No matter what I do, Google Maps only maps about 70 sites from a KML file. Since there are about 100 PPS schools, this isn't optimal.

By the way: to make a KMZ file from a KML file, just zip it up with WinZip.

So, the comment that Google Maps works better than Yahoo doesn't appear to be entirely true.

In case you're lost...

Map of Europe circa 1000

Cool stereo pictures

Here's a cool idea. Using animated GIFs to present a stereo view.

Yahoo Maps Simple API

Here's a different mapping example. I used Yahoo Maps Simple API.
All you have to do is to put your locations into an XML file and then pass that file to Yahoo via a URL.

This is the same map as the previous -- all the schools in Portland Public Schools.

Here's my second attempt at google maps

I found this site that helps geocode a batch of addresses.
I already compiled a spreadsheet of PPS addresses by school, so I pasted it into the site and that resulted in a bunch of longitudes and latitudes.

Then, the site helped me to map it.
I'll have to spend some time figuring out what it all means.