A futures trader (apparently still in college) loses 40K, wiping out his account, over the long weekend on Dow futures. There are some YouTube videos on there as well, with a picture-in-picture of him superimposed over his trading software, swearing a lot. From an article linked to in comments elsewhere on his blog: From my …
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Identity Reclaimed
I was complaining late last year about how my site still wasn’t the number one search result for my name. Well, I think setting up a better default index page for my site made some kind of difference — eriknovales.com is now the #1 search result for my name. Yeehaw.
Three Books
I’ve been reading quite a bit lately, so I figured that I would write capsule reviews or summaries of the books that I’ve read. The United States of Arugula is a look behind the evolution of “American cuisine,” the popularization and adoption of local and organic foodstuffs, and how the perception of cooking in this …
Apollo Justice
I saw on Rock Paper Shotgun that Capcom has released a free Flash demo of the upcoming Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney game. As someone who recently played Phoenix Wright: Justice for All (my introduction to the series — I haven’t yet played the other two installments), I find this demo interesting for a few reasons: …
What Goes Up…
I noticed today that the market took another pounding today, with the Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ all giving up at least 2%. Those who are better acquainted with me will know that, for some time now, I have been convinced of the eventual collapse of the skyrocketing housing market. I do not have any real …
The D-League Experience, Even Cheaper
I just read on the D-League president’s blog that, from now until the end of the season, you’ll be able to watch all D-League games for free as streaming video. I haven’t checked it out yet, but this explains the presence of cameras and video editing equipment at the games we’ve attended for the last …
Can I Keep My Jersey?
The title of this entry is taken from the book of the same name by Paul Shirley, occasional NBA player and basketball wordsmith. It’s a very funny book, mixing insight into the sometimes surreal lives of basketball mercenaries, along with ruminations on more philosophical questions. Given the occasional crazy outburst by an NBA player, it’s …
OpenWrt
So I decided, on something of a whim, to replace the firmware in my trusty Buffalo WBR2-G54 router with OpenWrt, a modular Linux distribution for embedded devices. (I actually used the X-Wrt packages, which have a better web interface for configuration but are based on OpenWrt.) The WBR2-G54 is based on the Broadcom 4712 platform, …
A Little Paranoia Goes a Long Way
I read an article this morning on the theft of customer data (including credit card data) from geeks.com, a site from which I had purchased a cheap graphics tablet on a lark about eight months ago. Of course, I immediately got concerned, and checked my credit cards for any suspicious charges, but found none. (The …
Main Site Up
So I finally got off of my duff and did an install of Drupal for the main portion of this site, replacing the old placeholder page that was there. Right now there isn’t much (any?) content on there, but I’ll be putting up some projects and other stuff soon, hopefully. I figure it’s better to …