GB at DKIB put together an absolutely fantastic Excel interface for our analytics. A lot of the functionality is probably industry standard at this point, but the quality of GB’s tools was absolutely fantastic, and there were aesthetic touches that really made it a pleasure to use. One tool that I hadn’t seen before but have [...]
Archive for the 'Software' Category
That heading describes a problem I hope you never have to tackle. We’ve got a full-fledged exotics trading system (call it XX) built in Excel with all sorts of fancy bells and whistles. For some reason that escapes me, XX has never been split into a thin front-end sheet backed by an XLA containing all [...]
Wow Day
03Aug08I have 3 Wows to give out today. WhyNot.net: I was Googling to see if anyone else was curious about using active noise-cancelling techniques for turning down the volume (in some sense) on babies. There are serious technical challenges (such as that current noise-cancelling devices target a point sink), but it’s a cool idea and even [...]
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 [...]
What I want
19May07I’ve become a pretty heavy del.icio.us user (lookie-loo, my bookmarks for all to see –>). It’s wonderfully convenient having them available from any computer I’m at, and one less thing to worry about backing up; since 2000, I think I’ve lost locally stored bookmarks about 4 times. Plus, they’re tagged any way you want them, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Big update
06Oct06I’ve been busy lately, what with school finally starting and Ramadan and all. I’m just posting a few bullet points for now, and then a description of life at LSE so far will follow tomorrow, IA. You need to read this article by Uri Avnery. Go ahead, read it, I’ll wait. It’s worth your time. [...]
Recent Comments