by Charles | Aug 29, 2013 | Links, Markets
This is a great 60 minutes piece on China’s housing bubble. The middle class is turning towards real-estate for investment so builders are constantly putting up new buildings, developments and cities. But with only a privileged few buying multiple apartments,...
by Charles | Aug 9, 2013 | Links, Tools
An excellent article by Jeff Weiner at LinkedIn about managing email. Having done IT for several firms, I’ve seen it all. From people who simply can’t keep track, with Inboxes full of thousands of unread messages, to people who over process and over...
by Charles | Jul 16, 2013 | Markets, Tools
I have recently discovered Quandl, which, per their website description: […] has indexed millions of time-series data from over 400 sources. All of Quandl’s datasets are open and free. You can download any Quandl dataset in any format that you want. You...
by Charles | Jun 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
A Dangerous Sign For VMware, PayPal Chooses Rival OpenStack – Business Insider Difficult hit for VMWare, brownie points on OpenStack. tags: unixrealm vmware Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. Share...
by Charles | May 29, 2013 | Life, Tools
Last time I changed job, it meant an increase in commute (from 5 minutes to an hour) which also meant I would not see my kids every morning. So I picked up the habit (since then lost mind you) of setting the table for their breakfast and leaving them a note, wishing...