Jamin http://pubcrawler.org Living life forward and understanding it backwards Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:36:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with RojoSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes Now on Twitter and using Ping.fm to update http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pubcrawler/org/~3/447836218/ http://pubcrawler.org/2008/11/09/now-on-twitter-and-using-pingfm-to-update/#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:36:55 +0000 jamin http://pubcrawler.org/?p=603 With the addition of Twitter, the list of social networking sites I’ve got to update has grown to the point where it’s time-consuming. Enter Ping.fm, a free service which allows you to update multiple social networking sites at once using various interfaces including web, instant message, SMS, and email.

]]> http://pubcrawler.org/2008/11/09/now-on-twitter-and-using-pingfm-to-update/feed/ http://pubcrawler.org/2008/11/09/now-on-twitter-and-using-pingfm-to-update/ Kelli http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pubcrawler/org/~3/432368484/ http://pubcrawler.org/2008/10/26/kelli/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:58:54 +0000 jamin http://pubcrawler.org/?p=580 I think it’s time to announce formally that I have a girlfriend. Her name is Kelli and she has managed to break through the walls I’ve put up over the years. She’s brilliant, beautiful, and clever. And today is her birthday.

Here she is singing karaoke with her friend, Jamie, at our karaoke night.

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Kelli on the left, Jamie on the right

Happy Birthday, Kelli!

I’m a lucky guy.

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Oh yes, I am.

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It was easy enough for us humans to understand a stick or a dollar bill when it was backed by something tangible somewhere, but only computers can understand and derive a correlation structure from observed collateralized debt obligation tranche spreads. Which leads us to the next question: Just how much of the world’s financial stability now lies in the “hands” of computerized trading algorithms?

]]> http://pubcrawler.org/2008/10/12/the-rise-of-the-machines/feed/ http://pubcrawler.org/2008/10/12/the-rise-of-the-machines/ Saturday with Kelli http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pubcrawler/org/~3/399229805/ http://pubcrawler.org/2008/09/21/saturday-with-kelli/#comments Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:17:53 +0000 jamin http://pubcrawler.org/?p=572 Kelli had VIP tickets to Pointfest so we packed a cooler and enjoyed some bands and people-watching for a few hours.

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Then we cruised to Bone’s French Quarter for a night of karaoke, making some new friends along the way.

Me

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Via Blizzard.

  1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
  2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
  3. Post that picture with NO editing.
  4. Post these instructions with your picture.
]]> http://pubcrawler.org/2008/09/20/mememe/feed/ http://pubcrawler.org/2008/09/20/mememe/ I’m back http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pubcrawler/org/~3/363029991/ http://pubcrawler.org/2008/08/12/im-back-2/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:47:00 +0000 jamin http://pubcrawler.org/?p=547 After quite a long blogging hiatus, I’ve finally gotten around to fixing the issues with my WordPress database, upgrading to 2.6, and settling on a theme I like.

Now that the annoying stuff is out of the way, I should be writing posts more frequently. Stay tuned…

On a side note, this is my 500th post on this blog. Perhaps I needed that hiatus after all.

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