November 2006 Archives

The adult character is comprised of:

Self-control - restraint, emotional control.
Stability - stable personality, strength.
Independence - ability to self-regulate.
Seriousness - ability to deal with life in a serious manner.
Responsibility - accountability, commitment and reliability.
Method/Tact - ability to think ahead and plan for the future, patience.
Endurance - ability and willingness to cope with difficulties that present themselves.
Experience - breadth of mind, understanding.
Objectivity - perspective and realism.

[Altrec]
[TravelCountry]
[BackCountry]
A list of a few sellers of Arc'teryx outdoor gear.

Blurb lets you easily create a book from photos, text, or a mixture of each, and gives users templates for creating things like cookbooks or poetry books.

Update 2008-05-31

My wife used this to make a personalized wedding album for her parents. Not so very expensive, either.

PC Magazine has a recent review of it.

[Court Room Conversations]

Hilarious courtroom exchanges. Sample:

ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

[Overheard in the office]
Hilarious excerpts of conversations overheard at the office. Sort of like Overheard in New York but at the office.

Highly recommended site for printing digital pictures
[Pictopia]

Geek Logik: 50 Foolproof Equations for Everyday Life
Life situations reduced to equations you can calculate.
[Amazon]
[Geek Logik blog]

I use Yahoo for historical stock quotes and stockcharts for charts.

[StockTickr]

[StockCharts]

[Yahoo]

[BigCharts]

[Make a ringtone from any MP3]
[Stop Paying for Ring Tones]
[Easily Create MP3s for Your Phone with ToneShop]
[Make Your Cell Phone Vibrate First, Ring Second]

[Online math test] Contains math questions plus at-expiry options questions. Really hard for the amount of time provided.

[Cut Losses Quickly To Preserve Your Cash]

[...]Investors holding on in hopes of a quick turnaround should remember the cardinal rule of CAN SLIM investing: Always sell when a stock drops 7% or 8% below your purchase price. No exceptions.

Why sell so quickly? So you can survive to invest another day.

Protecting capital should top every investor's priority list. It takes discipline, particularly when you've worked hard to research a stock.

You might be tempted to ride out a loss in the hopes of making your money back. But market history is rich with examples of stocks that crushed portfolios when investors failed to cut losses quickly.

[...]

[Prophet.net industry groups performance grid] Link to equity industry/sector performance. Good for getting an overview of the market direction and health.

InstallPad (for automatically installing software):

Downloading the latest versions of your favorite programs is a tiring task, especially on a fresh installation of Windows. Navigating through the mess of websites and download links is frustrating, waiting for the installers to download is boring, and running each one separately is annoying.

[Programmers' notepad]
Some cool features:

• Extensions interface, allows extension of PN using C++ add-ins
• Python extension (PyPN), allows scripting of PN using Python
• Tag browsing
• Keyboard customisation
• Comment insertion/removal
• Autocomplete (based on keywords and tags)
• Code templates

[MarketGauge] View of hotspots in the equity market.

Bright Trading specializes in education courses for traders. There is no way to figure out what the training curriculum or philosophy might be from the website.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO 2005)

What do an investor, a trader and a gambler have in common? Hans Wagner argues that an investor, trader, and gambler are similar because they have rules they operate by. I'd like to say there is a larger similarity, perhaps in the content of the rules, but Wagner is not making that claim as fas as I can see.

Important elements are:

• money management
• conserving capital / cutting losses
• the importance of temperament / personality
• finding good trades
  Fundamentals agree with technicals.