And it’s Mountain House vs. Mount House.

Let’s see how my html tags above come through (render).

Maps.google.com says there’s no Mountain Village 60 E of San Francisco. It does find a Mount Village.

Messaged the article’s author.

After reading page I took the situation as my problem with IE6 and Win98se because they are incapable of displaying alpha channels. Cause downloading the image and displaying it in my favorite picture editor didn’t help.

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/images/fileformats.html
The site uses a typed page (.pdf like) that does not allow select-copy-paste, so I’ll type-copy-paste just a bit.

“PNGs main draw are alpha-channels. Instead of the rudimentary transparency options in other formats (where a pixel is either transparent or opaque) an alpha channel can specify the opacity of any pixel from 0-255 …. a graphic that can be placed on top of any background colour …. The problem with this – and there had to be one – is that IE6 doesn’t support alpha-channels.”

(me back)
That brings up a 2nd notion at the investigation time for me, that its a copyright protection format for the internet age that is rustling out the payolla issues.

It is not just an investment; it is an enormous investment. You cannot compare it to cars or furniture or clothing because the scale is completely different.

If you need a place to live, you can rent. What got us into trouble is that people made investments into assets (housing) priced many, many times their net worth. They did this via leverage. Seriously. Step back and think about it. Why does someone who has a net worth of $50,000 buy a $400,000 asset? Just because they need a place to live? It is absolutely crazy that we bought into the myth that a non-diversified investment totally disproprotionate to our net worth was a good idea. It is insane. I can think of no other word for it.

The browsers are known to have poor rendering engines for shrinking/stretching images. I poked around on the old site, and all the crisp images are being displayed at their actual size, but some images that were being forced to resize in the browser had similar image distortion.

The best thing is to capture images and shrink them in some other application, such as Paint Shop, before uploading them. If you really want cool results, as Estragen has suggested, turn them into real scalable vector graphics. Of course, that would be a little more work! :-)

<img
class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-8955″ title=”net-neg-equity”
src=”http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/net-neg-equity.png” alt=”"
width=”500″ height=”258″
/>

An investment is a stock, bond, savings account or CD. What got us in trouble was the idea that our home was an “investment”. This idea continues with help from NAR and other assorted people/entities that benefit from people thinking that their home is the best and greatest investment ever known to human kind.

I just visited the old site and looked at a graphic that displayed properly….it was also PNG. I think this is a Word Press setting