October 2010
2 posts
1 tag
“Dear Steve,
Could I please re-gift stuff I bought in iTunes. I want to send...”
– Letters To Steve Jobs
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Wilco
Bought the album “Wilco” by Wilco. Worst. Decision. Ever. Even worse, than that time, when I was into German Trachtenmode and bought a 500 Euro traditional linen hunter’s janker (yes, I’m from Europe).
Have you heard the song “I’ll Fight”? Seriously, what the hell is going on there?
I’ll die alone like Jesus on a cross…
NO. YOU....
August 2009
1 post
Katrin: What are you reading?
me: A book on data mining.
Katrin is offline. Messages you send will be delivered when Katrin comes online.
July 2009
12 posts
1 tag
HowToWriteASimpleApplication - simple - How... →
Google’s releasing a new BASIC based language. The comments at the link above are OBLIGATORY!
“Creating sense from nonsense with the help of regression models.”
“Hi, I see you’ve created a complex query there…
Yeah, you know, I...”
– Microsoft Access
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What are the benefits of Euro addaption for the...
Last week (17. VII 2009) the Governing Council of the European Central Bank had its semi-monthly meeting and published its decisions on the ECB website. One particulary interesting GC opinion (dating back to 24. VI 2009) was regarding the use of Latvijas Banka’s income (CON/2009/53).
Apparently, the latvians are willing to increase the amount of Latvijas Banka’s income, that can be...
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“The crowd listening to Rafsanjani inside the mosque was filled with Ahmadinejad...”
– STRATFOR Geopolitical Weekly, 07/21/2009
Is it the translation, or is the whole “World Peace”-thing not hip anymore?
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Microsoft stuns Linux world,... →
The pigs have flown!
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The Chinese Equity Bubble: Ready to Burst →
According to this model, a bubble deflation or a crash in China is possible around 17/07/2009 - 27/07/2009.
False assumptions or kick-ass science? Let’s watch!
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Человек Грызлов. / Gryzlovman (russian) →
I’ll just leave this here.
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Sometimes it's epic: talking to P. G. re...
J: Next: Timothy Geithner guilty of fiscal herecy and monetary black magic.
P: Credit Crunch Was An Illusion Lehman Alive and Kicking
J: And in healthcare news: AIDS is curable by a kiss of a loving woman. Prices for loving women surge.
P: Hedge Funds Shorting Loving Women Collapse Triggering Massive Deleveraging.
J: Hugo Chavez Nationalizes All Loving Women in Venezuella. Halliburton Shares Dive.
“This is an election season. Many are practising black magic. Indeed, my family...”
– Indonesian presidential candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (Source)
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“There is a powerful role both for the market and for...”
– Marginal Revolution: Aid Realism for the Idealist
June 2009
6 posts
Russia's New Scramble for Africa - WSJ.com →
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“‘If the cuts (in the budget) won’t be made, there would not be...”
– BIS-LATVIAN C.BANK GOVERNOR SEES ECONOMY GROWING AT LATEST IN Q2, 2010 - Forbes.com
Dear Lord, Mr. Rimsevics is on fire!
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“People who are expressing that (a devaluation is possible) lack some education...”
– Ilmars Rimsevics
BIS-LATVIAN C.BANK GOVERNOR SEES ECONOMY GROWING AT LATEST IN Q2, 2010 - Forbes.com
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Rogoff Says Latvia Should Devalue Its Currency,... →
It is unsettling, how there is a huge discrepancy between, what the economists say, should be done, and what the politicians actually do.
And yes, I do consider IMF mostly a political organization.
Taxes! Oh, yes!
If any information system will become self-aware in the near future, then I am sure, it won’t be Skynet, it will be the digitized library of German tax law.
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“I’m all out of champagne! Guess I am reduced to drinking common coffee.”
– Quote Of The Day From Work
April 2009
4 posts
A LinkedIn Poll on who has the most economical... →
Some really low scores for the SDP. Not, that I disagree, though.
“If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.”
– G. K. Chesterton
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Damn, I forgot about *this* page
Right, let’s recap, what has happened in the meantime.
Well, it’s 2009:
financial crisis, one like we’ve never seen before
Obama won the elections.
John Thain redecorated his office.
Russian-Georgian war happened. Crap.
Also, G20 Summit happened, which was nothing more, than a really expensive soap. Sarkozy almost cried. Germans killed all the buzz. And the cheeky turks got...
November 2007
2 posts
I am partially back, kids!
“Ask me about exchange rate volatility… Go on.”
October 2007
4 posts
“My favorite things are commitment and changing myself”
– Pick-Up Line Simulation Unit, RomantiCorp
Soon
Okay, everybody. I am technically alive and kicking. Still waiting for T-Com to open my DSL line. Damn them to hell. Anyway, I’ll be back online the other week. Thanks.
“John, if you get such kicks from o-ju, then I’d hate to see you drinking...”
– The Machine Gun Girl, serving us tea at 5:40 A.M.
On the number of blogs, I have
Recently, a lot of you have been asking: “John, how many (friggin’) blogs do you have?” Well, dear friends, I have 2. This one and the KOKOKO. KOKOKO is basically, a more structured version of this one, written in a way understandable to other humans and with some additional content thrown in. In short: this is raw, that is refined.
September 2007
15 posts
Casey: Yeah, writing paper.
Josh: want to be distracted?
Josh: want to play a game?
Casey: Dude...the paper...
Josh: *scizzors beats paper *
Josh: yes I know I misspelled it
Josh: and that
Casey: *pulls out rock*
Josh: *VOLCANO!
Josh: nothing beats volcano
Casey: ASTEROID.
Josh: MAGIC!!!
Casey: BLACK HOLE!
Josh: WHITE HOLE!
Casey: PATRIOT ACT!
Josh: not white house you phail
Casey: No, no, no. *Nothing* beats the Patriot Act, although I'm sure the ACLU is working very hard on it.
Josh: fine
Josh: ANARCHY
Casey: TOTALITARIAN STATE
Josh: EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN
Casey: STALIN
Josh: DEATH
Casey: RELIGION
Josh: RATIONAL THOUGHT
Casey: FUNDIES
Josh: NOISE CANCELING HEADPHONES
Casey: PEOPLE WITNESSING AT YOUR HOUSE
Josh: SHOTGUN
Casey: BOMBS
Josh: PATRIOT ACT
Things I Use
Pete’s asked me, what programs on OS X I use. Here’s a list. Don’t read it, if you’re bored, though. Browsing: Safari, Opera, Firefox Email: OS X Mail PIM: iCal and OS X Address Book Editor: Smultron Office things: MS Office 2004 mac or TexShop for LaTeX Music: iTunes + last.FM Scripting: Automator or in complex cases - Perl (ActiveState’s) Geekieness: Xcode RSS:...
By the way, the Ladytron people rock!
Weirded out dialog at African Kitchen
Creepy Girl: How about buying me a drink?
me: Oh, you're using your womanly charms, aren't you? That's cute.
Creepy Girl: Well, will you?
me: Ah, no.
Frou Frou
Just got their album “Details”. It’s like I’m in heaven, trippin’ off lettuce. Absolutely great.
SMFDevelopment
Pete: trick question: do you think that generating 30 years of data across a market with 70-120 companies + macro parameters in 74 seconds under diagnostics and warnings pragmas is sufficiently fast?
me: It depends on, how we are going to market this thing. :)
Pete: f*ck you marketing people ;)
U.S. Energy Information Administration
In case somebody wondered, where on Earth would I get info re the energy demand and energy reserves in the U.S., here’s the nifty link: http://www.eia.doe.gov/
“The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from...”
– Casey Stengel US baseball manager (1890 - 1975)
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m...”
– Ronald Reagan 40th president of US (1911 - 2004)
This says it better, than I can
Awful Word Of The Forever
Ladies and gentlemen, the Awful Word Of Forever comes from business english. Please welcome: embeddedness (a scream of horror behind the scenes).
Texas Startup Says It Has Batteries Beat →
Is internal combustion obsolete?
“vi for Victory!”
I can't help thinking about Steve Balmer when I...
Wirded out girls send me strange messages
Every day I get about 12 e-mails from some strange women, telling me how the penises of their boyfriends are bigger to the point of obscene. Who are all of these people? This is really disturbing.
August 2007
20 posts
Kerouac
To my surprize, Wired published today a great article; tribute to Kerouac’s “On The Road” (the book is turning 50 this year). I will spare you the explaining, what the beat culture is. In my opinion, the spirit of “On The Road” has nothing to do with modern day beatniks, which is just another way of saying “pretentious Web2.0’ed Gen-C bores” (this...
This is just great! →
Coca-Cola ad at Piccadily Circus flips out due to a Windows error message.
Excel Advanced Filter tips →
Encyclopedia of Ukraine →
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