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White Man’s Paradise

Everyone’s a little bit racist It’s true. But everyone is just about As racist as you! If we all could just admit That we are racist a little bit, And everyone stopped being So PC Maybe we could live in – Harmony! – Avenue Q nb: in this post i intentionally entirely ignore gender issues [...]

Life as a Rates Trader v1

Even though I am not yet a trader, I get, and ask, a fair amount of questions about this topic and so I thought I should put up some initial observations. I fully expect a fair amount of the following to be wrong – some factually wrong, some conditionally wrong, others correct but misleading. I [...]

Newton Utilities – my toolkit for data-intensive VBA work

I have shared some code I was working on in the past previously. I have since modified it a bit further as I learned more about excel (both 2007 and 2003) and also about my financial data reporting needs. I’ve taken to calling it Newton Utilities as, like Newtonian physics, the functions included are not [...]

VBScript Quick Reference: Seamlessly Copying To And From The Clipboard

usggovi dataAn extremely common problem encountered in VBScripting is having to copy to and from the Clipboard. VBScript does not offer direct access so there are many workarounds suggested. Most of what I find on the net are half-solutions involving security warnings from everybody’s favorite browser. This is my stackoverflow.com solution to the problem. Code [...]

On The Role of Regulation in My Political Philosophy: Thoughts on the SMRT furor

One of the biggest philosophical realizations for me this year was finding out what I agree with politically. (It feels like a longer, stretched-out version of Schwarzenegger’s political epiphany.) Political Philosophy* is to me a very ill-defined field. I tend to take its meaning in a more general sense: it covers everything normative about our [...]