CFCL Turns 25

I’m a fantasy baseball addict. I’ve been this way ever since I had to spend a winter alone in a two room apartment in Chicago. I’ve been a member of this league since the 2000 season. While that might seem like a fair chunk of change, the league itself has been going since 1984. Your’s…

Nitroeconomics Explains Derivatives Crash

This essay dovetails quite nicely with what I’ve been thinking w/r/t the current economic climate. The bizarre discounting of risk, the flood of money without anything concrete behind it. I got seriously interested in growth investment in the early/middle 90s but all the historical measures indicators like P/E ratio no longer seemed to apply. The…

Good News. Or Is It Bad?

On the one hand, hooray for the wild things finding a place they can call their own. On the other, it would appear that human activities are worse than heavy doses of radiation. That’s mildly depressive to a woolly liberal treehugger like myself. Chernobyl: Lost world – Independent Online Edition > Science & Tech

De-evolution

I’ve always loved Devo. Even when they, or what they’ve since become, strike an odd chord I knew what they were after. It’s always better to reach and fail than to not play at all. I’ve also annoyed friends and family and co-workers by pointing out Mothersbaugh or Devo bits that get injected into the…

Prestidigitization

Do computer/desktop tech support in some way or another for long enough and eventually you’ll run across someone who exclaims or attributes a certain piece of technology to be magical. As of today I’ve decided the appropriate term is prestidigititzation.

Tears of Joy and Sorrow

A List Apart: Articles: A Preview of HTML 5 is a nice intro to HTML5 for those of you who haven’t been paying attention. I was among that group having spent more time looking at XHTML 1.1 and 2.0 development. The crossover with XML is the cooler set of toys in my mind. I found…

Something Weird

You know what’s weird? Seeing a blog entry written by someone and having them reference you as “their boss.” Even if that is technically true—that person does work for me—it just gives me the willies. I never wanted to be anyone’s boss. I just want to write code and see what goofy crap can be…

The Coming Storm

I’ve been following the ever-increasing Storm Worm phenomena since it’s arrival almost a year ago. I was originally impressed by the relative polish of its social engineering aspects. It has always seemed to me that all manner of phishing, social engineering, and general spam vectors have had some very obvious clues. It’s like the individual…