Pimp Your Friends to Me

I've just realized that I have enough spare cash to actually pay someone to upgrade my site in all the ways I keep telling myself I need someone to do for me.

Do you know anyone who would be interested?

Interested Web Designers must be proficient in CSS, PHP, some kind of ecommerce package and preferably proficient in Word Press. Particular emphasis is placed on cross-browser uniformity of design.

Betting on hurricanes: tragic abuse of human suffering or brilliant business plan? You decide!

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/02/14/ap3428075.html

CME to Launch Hurricane Futures

"The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the largest derivatives exchange in the United States, announced Wednesday that it is launching contracts that will allow insurers and others to hedge risk against hurricane damage.
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CME's announcement follows one last Friday by Nymex Holdings (nyse: NMX - news - people ) Inc., which will list three new catastrophe risk index futures contracts in March. The Nymex contracts will also trade on CME's Globex, per an agreement between the two exchanges reached last year.

The move to list alternative investment contracts is a relatively new development for the exchanges as they seek a wider group of market participants. CME currently lists weather contracts based on temperatures in 35 cities worldwide as well as snowfall and frost indexes. Nymex began trading property damage risk contracts last month.

*disgusted*