Friday, February 22, 2008

Economics Blog : Negative Feedback on Economy's Negative Feedback Loops

This is funny, what is positive, and what is negative.

Economics Blog : Negative Feedback on Economy's Negative Feedback Loops

Why WSJ cannot simply admit that they have made a mistake? They have to cite others' mistakes to prove that they are correct?

The Stimulus Strategy: Financial Page: The New Yorker

In the Latest issue of the New Yorker, James Surowiecki cited Charles Perrow's Normal Accident.” to explain the bond market turmoil.

It is interesting to see that a journalist cited an investigation of engineering systems by a sociologist to explain the financial market. Well, if we check the number of former engineers and sociologists working on the Street, it might not be surprising.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Seven Rules for Reporting Polls and Research Results

A nice post at STATS.

My favorite is the 7th.

Thinking is hard. That explains a lot, not only stats, or news.

Monday, February 04, 2008

What is the difference between super Tuesday and Super-bowl?
Not much, I think. Once a scientist pointed out we do not have a President trained in science and tech yet, but we have presidents from showbiz. To the reporters / journalists, what is difference in reporting super-bowl and super Tuesday. All we need is a close match and excited fans. If there is none, we will create it, at least make it appear so.

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Last month I bought a copy of personal finance software from the company recently propose to buy Yahoo. The activation did not work. There is no response when I press any button in the activation dialog box. A google search showed others have seen this on Vista, and it was possibly caused by the security mechanism. Disabling the security did not work for me, and I have to give up until I saw similar failure when I install Abode Reader. No response during the license dialog. A post at Abode forum suggest register vbscript and jscript again. It works.

Lesson: I might have jumped too early for Vista. Upgrade might not mean the definitions you would find in a dictionary.
I have not updating this blog for a while. Let's do it again.