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Monday, July 27, 2009

Portfolio Performance for June 2009

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June was a great month, both personally and for the portfolio. My family and I headed off to Texas for a few weeks to spend time with famil...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

R on Stack Overflow...

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Funny, I was working through a problem in R today and was seriously wishing R had the same presence as python over at Stack Overflow. Looks...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Portfolio Performance for May 2009

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April and May flew by. Been in hacker mode for a few months now working on the simulation platform. I get that way sometimes. There are t...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Portfolio Performance for March 2009

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Better late than never on the portfolio stats for March. I've been traveling a bit and wrapping up projects which caused the delay. An...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Management by Walking Around - Michael Newcombe

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Excellent article from Peter Bregman highlighting the management style of Michael Newcombe , general manager of Four Seasons . Many will ...
Monday, March 16, 2009

New Growth and Old Age

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Good article from Philip Greenspun . I agree with the ideas, more or less. In particular, the notion that newer countries who have avoide...
Sunday, March 08, 2009

Portfolio Performance for February 2009

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February produced another all-time max drawdown in the portfolio. During times like this...logic rains down...am I doing something wrong? ...
Monday, February 02, 2009

Portfolio Performance for January 2009

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The new year started out with a bang, that's for sure. We're hitting new all-time max drawdowns in the system...2001/2002 were the ...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Portfolio Performance for December 2008

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Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays and the new year is treating you right. I'm afraid the portfolio nor the market changed much in Decem...
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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Portfolio Performance for November 2008

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Performance charts for November...better late than never: As you can see, more of the same. Market is down... TaylorTree not so much. The...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

What I'm Researching...

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CodeProject: Optimizing a Function of One Variable. Posted: 26 Nov 2008 12:31 AM CST find the minimum or maximum over an interval....
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Friday, November 14, 2008

What I'm Researching...

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Jim Barry's Rexx Tutor Part2 Posted: 13 Nov 2008 01:00 PM CST great summaries on the classic rexx functions. Project Aar...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Portfolio Performance for October 2008

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Drawdown city. Stay in this game long enough and you'll encounter months like September/October. In fact, they happen so infrequently...
Friday, November 07, 2008

What I'm Researching...

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Overview of RAMFS and TMPFS on Linux Posted: 06 Nov 2008 11:02 PM CST Map your memory as a drive? Wonder how this would work if y...
Friday, October 31, 2008

What I'm Researching...

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Producing Open Source Software Posted: 30 Oct 2008 09:56 PM CDT very cool online book detailing the starting of an open source pro...
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Monday, October 27, 2008

What I'm Researching...

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Linux Server, Linux Hardware Posted: 26 Oct 2008 02:28 PM CDT pre-installed linux provider system76, Inc. Posted: 26 Oct...
Monday, October 20, 2008

What I'm Researching...

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RocketDock - About RocketDock Posted: 20 Oct 2008 12:17 AM CDT extremely cool application dock for windows. Python Programmi...
Sunday, October 12, 2008

Portfolio Performance for September 2008

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September came and went. October brought the perfect storm...I guess. Looking forward to October's portfolio performance in relation t...

What's an Outsider to do?

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I avoid watching all news programs...especially related to the market and economy. Avoid reading newspapers and for the most part news blog...
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Thursday, October 09, 2008

What I'm Researching...

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Tips For Barplots in R Posted: 08 Oct 2008 12:27 PM CDT examples of barplotting in R - color the bars, horizontal axis, stacked ba...