Obama speaks to the Muslim World from Cairo
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8:59 PM
Thursday, June 04, 2009
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Professor Randy Pausch
It's one of the greatest lessons a teacher can give and one of most endearing gifts a father can bestow:
Randy's site:
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
Randy's site:
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
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9:48 PM
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Tumbleweeds bout to roll through?!
Been swamped at work lately, shifting groups again...
Started writing for AOL so free time for writing will probably go in that direction (since they pay).
The blog/site launched yesterday so I'll be starting to write on there since it's all public domain commentary, and hence no legal stickiness with the day job.
Coverage:
WSJ
CNNMoney
Motley Fool
If you grab a quote for a covered company from aol finance, next to the 'news' section will be articles/commentary from 'stockblogging'.
My blog stuff is kinda trending the way my pacific markets blog went. Left brained it at first and went about it in an objective and analytical manner. The editor wants to see more 'attitude' and bias so trying to throw some bend in there. Tough part is, when I write, if it's not personal journals, then I'm more comfortable writing like we did in academia, objective and quantitative. Well we'll see how this trend pans out.
Started writing for AOL so free time for writing will probably go in that direction (since they pay).
The blog/site launched yesterday so I'll be starting to write on there since it's all public domain commentary, and hence no legal stickiness with the day job.
Coverage:
WSJ
CNNMoney
Motley Fool
If you grab a quote for a covered company from aol finance, next to the 'news' section will be articles/commentary from 'stockblogging'.
My blog stuff is kinda trending the way my pacific markets blog went. Left brained it at first and went about it in an objective and analytical manner. The editor wants to see more 'attitude' and bias so trying to throw some bend in there. Tough part is, when I write, if it's not personal journals, then I'm more comfortable writing like we did in academia, objective and quantitative. Well we'll see how this trend pans out.
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8:36 PM
Friday, February 24, 2006
Update: Pacific Markets Port (60% complete)
So I've begun porting over my blogs by populating them through archived posts, but running into some roadbumps.
Currently on my pacific markets page, missing a good deal of posts, and have yet to get my archive links to redirect correctly. ! seems i may have lost my comments too ! ...
Trying to find a reliable way to parse my old archived blog posts into a blogger friendly format.
Forex is still down, and need to decide what to do with my spec thoughts and long-bias portfolio. Am hoping to be able to plug in a database backend so I get some P/L, show some analytics, and maybe get some live data feeds so i won't have to load the database myself. This is probably going to take a bit of time as it's been nearly two months in the works for me to platform over a single blog.
Jammed up at work and doing a couple of side projects with what weekend time i have. trying to patch this site together with free nights, but once i get warmed up it's already well past 12 and gotta roll out at 6:30 for another round of work. Miss the college days where you could pull all-nighters when you're on a roll, and you had the luxury of flexible schedules.
Well anyways. If you know anybody looking to come to the NYC area and looking for a boutique hotel alternative, short-term sublet, full rental, or purchase, point them this way:
www.instantNewYorker.com
I'm helping out with some projects for them and they're hopefully starting to get their feet under them. Mention my name or contact me and I'll see if there is any leeway in getting a reduced rate or commission discount.
Wow, thinking about it now for the website here's what's on my to do list:
1) Complete Transfer of Blogs
2) Hook up Flickr for pictures and Del.icio.us for links.
3) Figure out how to do categories/breadcrumbs with Blogger (wordpress had it coded in)
4) Hook up database so i can load my portfolio trackers (spec, long-bias, forex, pacific, alternatives). The host has sql so thinking that's the way to go.
5) See if i can get live data streams since i see free time as a decreasing function exponentially approaching 0.
**) Of course the caveat is with all this work, should i just stick to wordpress and stock html even though working with blogger and css will definitely making maintainance a lot easier in the long run (what's the risk/reward matrix here?).
**) Should I take out all the stops, go for the gold, and try to do it all in flash? (this is what a initial video is looking like).
**) Ideally if time was a luxury i could afford, i'd do it the proper way, research options, attribute values to key factors, evaluate, determine expectations, design a layout, gather content, then implement. Too bad like all things since i've started a 9 to 5, this is turning in to a RAD type deployment - skip skips 1 to 10, technology boosts expectations, then comes the scope creep, end up releasing a functional but not scaleable model which enjoys scarcely a breath of time in the limelight before being relegated to obsolesence.
Currently on my pacific markets page, missing a good deal of posts, and have yet to get my archive links to redirect correctly. ! seems i may have lost my comments too ! ...
Trying to find a reliable way to parse my old archived blog posts into a blogger friendly format.
Forex is still down, and need to decide what to do with my spec thoughts and long-bias portfolio. Am hoping to be able to plug in a database backend so I get some P/L, show some analytics, and maybe get some live data feeds so i won't have to load the database myself. This is probably going to take a bit of time as it's been nearly two months in the works for me to platform over a single blog.
Jammed up at work and doing a couple of side projects with what weekend time i have. trying to patch this site together with free nights, but once i get warmed up it's already well past 12 and gotta roll out at 6:30 for another round of work. Miss the college days where you could pull all-nighters when you're on a roll, and you had the luxury of flexible schedules.
Well anyways. If you know anybody looking to come to the NYC area and looking for a boutique hotel alternative, short-term sublet, full rental, or purchase, point them this way:
www.instantNewYorker.com
I'm helping out with some projects for them and they're hopefully starting to get their feet under them. Mention my name or contact me and I'll see if there is any leeway in getting a reduced rate or commission discount.
Wow, thinking about it now for the website here's what's on my to do list:
1) Complete Transfer of Blogs
2) Hook up Flickr for pictures and Del.icio.us for links.
3) Figure out how to do categories/breadcrumbs with Blogger (wordpress had it coded in)
4) Hook up database so i can load my portfolio trackers (spec, long-bias, forex, pacific, alternatives). The host has sql so thinking that's the way to go.
5) See if i can get live data streams since i see free time as a decreasing function exponentially approaching 0.
**) Of course the caveat is with all this work, should i just stick to wordpress and stock html even though working with blogger and css will definitely making maintainance a lot easier in the long run (what's the risk/reward matrix here?).
**) Should I take out all the stops, go for the gold, and try to do it all in flash? (this is what a initial video is looking like).
**) Ideally if time was a luxury i could afford, i'd do it the proper way, research options, attribute values to key factors, evaluate, determine expectations, design a layout, gather content, then implement. Too bad like all things since i've started a 9 to 5, this is turning in to a RAD type deployment - skip skips 1 to 10, technology boosts expectations, then comes the scope creep, end up releasing a functional but not scaleable model which enjoys scarcely a breath of time in the limelight before being relegated to obsolesence.
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3:11 AM
Sunday, December 04, 2005
Welcome!
Updating my website.
It's been ages since I've done any web dev, and there's a lot of slick new things out so it's taking me some time to get back up the learning curve. Currently using a modded template from Dan Cederholm.
Don't have much time with work picking up for year end, so likely won't have anything up till early next year.
Don't like having random things at friendster, xanger, blogger, etc. So i'm trying to consolidate and put everything together. All though it's weird having a work type blog mixed in with my personal blog, but I guess that's part of the challenge in coming up with a new UI.
Just got a hold of the new Macromedia and Adobe Dev suites which look rockin but complex; so hoping to get a weekend or two to take a crack at em.
In the meantime I've ported over some of my old posts from archives and populated the additional pages.
It's been ages since I've done any web dev, and there's a lot of slick new things out so it's taking me some time to get back up the learning curve. Currently using a modded template from Dan Cederholm.
Don't have much time with work picking up for year end, so likely won't have anything up till early next year.
Don't like having random things at friendster, xanger, blogger, etc. So i'm trying to consolidate and put everything together. All though it's weird having a work type blog mixed in with my personal blog, but I guess that's part of the challenge in coming up with a new UI.
Just got a hold of the new Macromedia and Adobe Dev suites which look rockin but complex; so hoping to get a weekend or two to take a crack at em.
In the meantime I've ported over some of my old posts from archives and populated the additional pages.
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11:10 PM
