Great Expression…
From Alan Nevin, chief economist for the California Building Industry Association and San Diego-based MarketPointe Realty Advisors: “Now it’s just a matter of the pig going through the snake.”
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Archive for April, 2008
Brett’s Law of Reusability…
“Any sufficiently complex bit of code is hard to make easily reusable without abstracting it to a level in which it is essentially useless.”
Dr Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke experience
Dr Jill Bolte Taylor is is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist who had a brain stroke on 10th Dec 1996. The stroke put pressure on the language centers on the left hemisphere of her brain. On the 27th Feb 2008, she gave a talk at TED about the experience. The talk is well worth watching!
XKCD…
I had work to do today, so obviously I had to procrastinate by reading xkcd archives. Check out the following series: Journal Journal 2 Journal 3
New Banksy – One Nation under CCTV
There’s a new Banksy gone up on Newman Street (just around the corner from our flat).
Papers on the “Credit Crunch”
Some interesting papers have come out on the “Credit Crunch”. Leveraged Losses: Lessons from the Mortgage Market MeltdownThis paper provides a good overview of the financial market turmoil occurring since August 2007, and discusses how the crisis might impact other areas of the economy. A Black Swan in the Money Market This paper examines the [...]
The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
Here is a great talk by Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren on the upcoming collapse of the middle class. The first 5 minutes are spent on introducing Professor Warren, so I recommend skipping to roughly 5-6 minutes into the video. She gives a very, very interesting comparison of the changing socio-economic factors between 1970-2007. The talk [...]
The Olympic Flame
So, on Sunday I was lying on the couch reading when I heard this commotion from Oxford Street. I jumped up and went out onto the balcony – just in time to see the Olympic Flame go past! It was driven past on an open top bus, held upright by this girl in a track-suit.