I’ve been working with Excel a lot these past few months. At least half my time these days is spent writing and running spreadsheets and interpreting the results I get from them. In many cases, I run a lengthy batch of calculations overnight and then have Excel produce a pivot table and save the results [...]
Archive for the 'Geekistry' Category
Avanoo — I don’t get it
09Jun07These guys wrote this, a thinly veiled dig at Guy Kawasaki. It’s a great read, and got me curious as to what exactly it was that they were doing. Their idea can be summarised as Epinions with filtering: people ask questions, which are answered by other people, and then the answers can be sorted and [...]
Sardines in a tin
27Mar07Dang, I wish I’d had my camera with me today. I was in Canary Wharf for the thousandth day in a row, for (hopefully) my final interview, and I saw the most interesting thing at the Canary Wharf Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station. Canary Wharf itself is situated east of London proper, and the DLR and [...]
My Desktop
18Feb07For those curious what Vista looks like on an older laptop, without Aero…
Vista!
15Feb07Seems I’ve permanently broken Ubuntu. I’m not sure quite what happened — I was switching my partitions around so that /home would be off on its own, and the next thing I knew, half my documents were gone and Kubuntu wasn’t booting (’kdestartupconfig’ has troubles, apparently). Anyway, I salvaged my Windows installation and tried starting [...]
Damn. I was reaching for my Polo (’the mint with a…’) just now, and my copy of Numerical Computations slipped off the desk and crashed to the floor. And that got me thinking… The program I’m doing right now at LSE, the MSc in Applicable Mathematics, is pretty good. There’s clearly lots of optimisation theory and [...]
Grr…ClickTale
22Jan07Argh, I’m getting sick of this. I came across ClickTale today, an Israeli startup that provides really detailed web analytics for websites. They offer webmasters the opportunity to track every click and keystroke a user makes on a webpage, and they even compile those sessions into videos that you can watch to see how the [...]
Continuing a recent trend of doing things I should have done long ago (switching to Opera, swing dancing, paying attention to classes), I have switched from Windows to Linux. Yes, finally, the day has arrived, and it’s a bigger deal than you think, given that: I once actively (well, semi-actively) pimped Microsoft software as a Student [...]
Links Day
10Nov06The stupidest man alive. ‘Nuff said. Now everyone can dunk. Yep, all you have to do is shell out $50-150 an hour, and your personal trainer will plyometric-ise you till you finally feel like a man. FM, SH, I hope you’re paying attention. What is 78 * 23? And am I stupider if it takes me longer [...]
Aaaack, Math!
30Oct06Yep, that’s my current state of mind. I’ve successfully wasted half of the weekend (and am proceeding to waste more, keystroke by keystroke right now…) doing this, that and the other, and now I have just a few hours left to buckle down and get some work done. Actually, I got a little bit of work [...]
I gotta say, I’m pretty pissed off with IE 5/6 now. I didn’t bother looking at the new theme with it and it turns out now that it looks pretty crappy. Well known problems, such as the transparent PNG issue and CSS incompatibilities make this such a massive headache. On this blog, for example, the [...]
Brave New Economy
13Oct06Wow, this New Economy stuff just gets more and more interesting. First, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. bought out MySpace for a massive $580 million. In recent months, that’s been called a bargain. In fact, it has been, given that Google’s paid $900 million for advertising rights on the site, making Murdoch a 55% return in his [...]
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