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Wowsers, this is amazing…. Blogged with the Flock Browser

I Ran into a snafu when installing the mysql_python egg from pypi. I believe this issue relates to any egg that remains packed after install. What happens is that a cache directory is created under…

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I’m no particular fan of Henry Blodget but he’s clearly articulate and smart, savvy even. I wouldn’t go all gaga just yet a la motley fool and have him advise on my portfolio—if indeed he’s…

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Google I/O  innovate in the open consensus model… not monopolization Client — Connectivity — Cloud ——————————— mainframe –> pc —> web power –> weak –> power easy deploy —> hard deploy —> easy deploy.

Excellent discussion of efficient markets theory and related investment approaches from two of the most respected academics in the field Eugene Fama Ken French

A remarkable essay, if increasingly outlandish as he marches the reader inexorably towards the ‘singularity’. From extensive modeling of the historical data he develops a pretty compelling demonstration of the accuracy of what he terms…

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21 moral/ethical ways to do business better…

Apparently, Mark Templeton, the CEO of Citrix, is considered a credible advisor to organizations considering the move to Service Oriented application infrastructure and a bright future of innovation and efficiency that IT can bring to business. I really…

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Use a dictionary to count the number of hits by hostname from a proxy log file, where the 7th tab delimited entry per line is the host. KeyError is the exception thrown if a dictionary…

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