Monday, March 26, 2007

Marathon Pictures!

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Finally I got my pictures from the folks who took them...it wasn't cheap, about 50 bucks, but I figured its worth it since I don't k...
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Sunday, March 25, 2007

Review: Shen Wei Dance Arts

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Last night, I saw one of the most impressive dance performances in my relatively short dance experience. The Shen Wei Dance Arts was up at ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

An explanation of the mortgage alphabet soup

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Calculated Risk is one of the best bloggers around on the housing bubble and its effect on the economy. His posts are incisive, and he also...
Friday, March 09, 2007

The high prices of plane tickets...

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This year seems to be exceedingly expensive for plane travel. 3 years ago when I bought plane tickets for Zurich, I found tickets for $650 e...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Review: Rising Stars

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This is a review of J. M. Straczynski's series, Rising Stars. It's published in 3 parts: Rising Stars , Power (Rising Stars, Book ...
Sunday, March 04, 2007

26.2 in 4:30

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So this past sunday was the culmination of about 6 months worth of training. From the time I returned to the Bay Area in July and decided t...

gtags 1.0 released

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And there's even the official blog post written by me. Most of the work, however, was done by my intern, Stephen Chen, so thanks, Stephe...
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Monday, February 26, 2007

The 1.5% Real Return Estimate

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Last night I had dinner with folks that included a couple who worked in the financial industry. As might be expected, the dinner conversatio...
Friday, February 23, 2007

Phil teaches Emacs

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One of my former gtags interns, Phil, went back to school at MIT and taught a class about Emacs. His slides were great (much better than th...
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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Beautiful Aptos Beach

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Turbo Tax 2007 Review

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This is a review of TurboTax for the Mac versus TurboTax for Windows. I've been a Turbo Tax for Windows user for years. This year, as an...
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Saturday, February 10, 2007

No, I did not cheat...

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Your results: You are Dr. Doom Dr. Doom 68% Magneto 60% Lex Luthor 52% Green Goblin 52% The Joker 52% Apocalypse 49% Two-Face 48% Rid...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Review: Dreaming In Code

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Scott Rosenberg follows the Chandler project as a reporter, unraveling the mysteries of software development gone wrong. What's interes...
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Sunday, February 04, 2007

Review: Ex Machina

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Note: My copy of The First Hundred Days was checked out from my local library, and it had pages missing. Ex Machina is about a superhero wh...
Saturday, February 03, 2007

Review: Whistling Past Dixie

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This book is an excellent companion and counter-point to Gene Sperling's The Pro-Growth Progressive . Rather than pontificate on policy...
Thursday, February 01, 2007

Review: Nintendo Wii

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I've never bought a game console in my life, though I did own an Atari Lynx once upon a time. But when a colleague brought in his Wii an...
Sunday, January 28, 2007

Review: Jersey Boys

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Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. If you've never heard of either one of those, I assure you that you...

Michael Pollan on Nutritionism

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I frequently like to write off the New York Times (especially since their science articles are overly simplistic, and in many cases simply w...
Sunday, January 21, 2007

Review: Pan's Labyrinth

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Run, don't walk to see this movie. There is nothing that I am going to say here that will give you a better understanding or any higher...
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Saturday, January 20, 2007

Scott Burns: Americans not that badly off

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There's a lot of doom and gloom usually about how little Americans save, so it's nice to see a bit of good news (especially from Sco...
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