We’ve passed the one year anniversary of the Gumshoe’s first writing in this space with little fanfare, I’m afraid. It’s OK, I know you meant to send flowers. It’s the thought that counts.

And it was actually when I was going back through my old stuff and trying to figure out exactly what day I did start publishing (it was March 8, by the way — a day when I posted solutions to two teasers, one that I think will be a great long term investment, though it had a bad year in the end … and one that is the worst Gumshoe stock of all time: a terrible stock that still might go to zero, representing a company that did not, surprisingly enough, ride Taylor Hicks’ stardom to a Nasdaq listing or fame or fortune, and that has now gone so far as to apparently give up their fight and completely change the focus of their business).

But what caught my eye was Read the rest of this entry »