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Technology

Happy New Year

January 1, 2009

Welcome all to 2009! Today, I started on a new venture: a website and an ebook on the credit crunch and how to survive it. The site is www.creditlust.com/blog . Today, I bought the domain from http://joker.com set up the DNS to host the site at http://rackspace.com downloaded the blog software from http://www.wordpress.org created the [...]

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San Francisco Nights

February 13, 2008

Last Tuesday night in SF, managed to win a pairs Pool tournament. First prize way an Apple IPOD shuffle, one of greatest achievements of the human race to date, 2cm by 3 cm and so much pleasure! I have downloaded a heavily restricted subset of my music, but hey, every track is a winner! A [...]

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Cross Referencing Identifiers : Know Your Instrument

November 18, 2007

When financial data is supplied by a vendor it tends to be keyed on that vendor’s own identifier e.g. Bloomberg unique identifer, Moodys issue id, etc. Market identifiers such as SEDOL, CUSIP and ISIN are sometimes but not always supplied. As part of the research and investment processes we want to be to identify an instrument uniquely whatever identifiers are supplied [...]

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DAMA

October 31, 2007

Not good. A week has passed and no blog entry. What minor events have happened in my life? Well, I remortgaged with the same lender with an interest-only mortgage to start accumulating funds for some renovations to the house: new slate floors downstairs, reclaimed wooden floors upstairs and replastered walls and ceilings throughout. On the [...]

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RSS and Feed Reader

September 22, 2007

It is the weekend and have I have just walked the dogs around the ponds and am settling down to spend an hour on my blog. My accompaniment is two deep rounds of snoring with the odd pathetic yelp as the youngest one dreams of some hot pursuit of a squirrel. I have just downloaded and [...]

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Oracle createDescriptor classCastException

September 18, 2007

Not the catchiest of titles but this was the problem I spent most of the day struggling with. Try passing a java object to an oracle stored procedure and and it won’t work if you use a JDBC driver with pooled connections. However, call the DriverManager directly and it works.  For more detailed solutions please look at  velocityreviews.com  [...]

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Getting Started

September 16, 2007

Well, that was a bit of an effort getting started. I am about 2 hours in. I have installed Word press, set up a MYSQL database for the content, chosen a theme, downloaded a ‘Now Reading’ plugin, added a book review. So why am I doing this? A couple of reasons, one is using the blog [...]

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