Monday, August 02, 2004
Great Companies Great Charts
While I was on vacation last week, I read a very interesting book on trading. The book, "Great Companies, Great Charts" by Andy Dunn was short but concise.
I don't agree with everything Andy had to say, but I really liked his points on knowing when to sell (i.e. before you buy, what will you sell stop be priced at?). A few XMas' ago, I spoke with the brother of my wife's Aunt. He was a big trader at Merrill for years. His comment on the market crash of 2000/2001 was "geez, doesn't anyone know when to sell?"
That thought always stuck with me, but I never came up with a good, emotion-free way of determining this critical piece of data.
Check it out if you get a chance.
I don't agree with everything Andy had to say, but I really liked his points on knowing when to sell (i.e. before you buy, what will you sell stop be priced at?). A few XMas' ago, I spoke with the brother of my wife's Aunt. He was a big trader at Merrill for years. His comment on the market crash of 2000/2001 was "geez, doesn't anyone know when to sell?"
That thought always stuck with me, but I never came up with a good, emotion-free way of determining this critical piece of data.
Check it out if you get a chance.
Friday, July 23, 2004
MessageCast and MSN/Fox Sports
The cat is out of the bag (finally) -- The announcement about the MessageCast/MSN/Fox Sports deal has hit the wire.
This project had a lot of interesting facets to it - consuming proprietary XML feeds, transforming them, matching the information to subscriptions and then all the way through to delivery (IM, cell and/or email)
One of these blogs, I'll write about the different technologies/solutions we looked at for consumption.
This project had a lot of interesting facets to it - consuming proprietary XML feeds, transforming them, matching the information to subscriptions and then all the way through to delivery (IM, cell and/or email)
One of these blogs, I'll write about the different technologies/solutions we looked at for consumption.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Blogger.com/Firefox/TabbrowserExtensions
A note for the Blogger.com guys
Using Firefox (0.9.2) with Tabbrowser Extensions makes for a very frustrating experience on the Blogger.com site. The "Preview" button likes to wipe out any text I've entered, while creating a link or bold/italicizing something like to do the same.
I guess this is actually a bug report.
Using Firefox (0.9.2) with Tabbrowser Extensions makes for a very frustrating experience on the Blogger.com site. The "Preview" button likes to wipe out any text I've entered, while creating a link or bold/italicizing something like to do the same.
I guess this is actually a bug report.
Amazon Plog?
Yesterday, I hit the Amazon website, looking for a new phone charger for my car. Instead of the "normal" front-door, I was hit with something that said
Dave's Plog Beta (What is a Plog?), followed by an overwhelming amount of text.
Hmmm, maybe I missed the memo, but I don't remember hearing about Amazon's Plogs.
The What is a Plog? link tells me the following:
Your Amazon.com Plog is a diary of events that will enhance your shopping experience, helping you discover products that have just been released, track changes to your orders, and many other things. Just like a blog, your Plog is sorted in reverse chronological order. When we think we have something interesting or important to tell you, we'll post it to your Plog.
After reading it several times, I have to say I don't get it. Any ideas out there?
Dave's Plog Beta (What is a Plog?), followed by an overwhelming amount of text.
Hmmm, maybe I missed the memo, but I don't remember hearing about Amazon's Plogs.
The What is a Plog? link tells me the following:
Your Amazon.com Plog is a diary of events that will enhance your shopping experience, helping you discover products that have just been released, track changes to your orders, and many other things. Just like a blog, your Plog is sorted in reverse chronological order. When we think we have something interesting or important to tell you, we'll post it to your Plog.
After reading it several times, I have to say I don't get it. Any ideas out there?
Saturday, July 17, 2004
SUNW/Business Week
Boy oh boy. If you haven't read the Business Week article on Sun, make sure to check it out.
I haven't been that big of a fan of SUNW for a while, ever since they
basically tossed their $2 billion acquisition of Cobalt Networks down
the drain. They just never seemed to understand the disruptive
technology known as Linux and how it would rock their world.
From the article, it sounds like McNealy finally understands that there
has been a fundamental shift, but it sure didn't seem like he
understood that he needs a 50% layoff tomorrow and that it should
include both himself and his new COO, Jonathan Schwartz.
My guess - they are going the way of DEC and SGI.
Monday, July 12, 2004
Bugzilla 2.18rc1 Released
First major Bugzilla release (2.18RC1) in two years is out and available. Pretty extensive list of changes and new features
Looks like a lot of work has been done to address my pet peeve with Bugzilla -- lack of modperl support
Looks like a lot of work has been done to address my pet peeve with Bugzilla -- lack of modperl support
Saturday, July 10, 2004
Mozilla "nightmare"? Get real
I guess this guy missed out on the IE debacle and now wants to make sure he is ahead of the pack with his Mozilla Nightmare story.
Not sure what others have found, but my real world usage has repeatedly shown the Mozilla is a much more solid and secure browser.
Not sure what others have found, but my real world usage has repeatedly shown the Mozilla is a much more solid and secure browser.
Friday, July 09, 2004
Bloglines Blurs the Lines
Bloglines rolled out their "anniversary" update on July 7th. (I couldn't get the publisher piece to work until last night - looks like there were some initial issues that have been resolved)
I created a blog and took the publishing tools out for a spin. What I found was that the tools are not nearly as robust as other systems out there. However, I'm sure the folks at Bloglines would say this is just the initial release and that it will improve over time.
Assuming that this is the case and the publishing tools become stronger, Bloglines has made a very interesting move. They gone from a "pure" aggregator of content to a publisher of content in one fell swoop. This seems like a natural evolution, but I could not find any other aggregators with publishing functionality.
This positions Bloglines for some great potential growth, as they didn't really have much to offer Publishers previously.
Next question - when does Yahoo add the Publisher piece (since they are offering aggregation to some extent now) and/or when does Google (through Blogger.com) add aggregation to their publishing tools?
I created a blog and took the publishing tools out for a spin. What I found was that the tools are not nearly as robust as other systems out there. However, I'm sure the folks at Bloglines would say this is just the initial release and that it will improve over time.
Assuming that this is the case and the publishing tools become stronger, Bloglines has made a very interesting move. They gone from a "pure" aggregator of content to a publisher of content in one fell swoop. This seems like a natural evolution, but I could not find any other aggregators with publishing functionality.
This positions Bloglines for some great potential growth, as they didn't really have much to offer Publishers previously.
Next question - when does Yahoo add the Publisher piece (since they are offering aggregation to some extent now) and/or when does Google (through Blogger.com) add aggregation to their publishing tools?
