Humans are not rational creatures. Which creates the opportunities for people who can train themselves to be rational and inevitable tragedies for those who cannot do so.

Indeed.

“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” – John Maynard Keynes

Good to know.

So most years, I go to the local Microsoft SVC holiday party. In fact, I haven’t missed one – until this year.

This year, I went to the Genentech Holiday Party as it was unfortunately on the same evening, and in San Francisco (whereas the Microsoft one was in San Jose). I must say that it is quite different when your entire company goes to one party – instead of just a local campus!

Wow!

A friend of mine went skiing today – in Dubai.

Jimmy Grewal’s Weblog ? Gone skiing!

I finally made time today to go skiing with the boys and we had a great time. This was my first time inside Ski Dubai and it exceeded my expectations.

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There are some more photos at the link. Looks like it could’ve used a few more decorations, but still – skiing in a place where it is often 451 degrees (+/- 1000) is pretty neat!

Edit: Whoa… check out the comment from Paul Berkowitz in this entry. I haven’t had any problems (on the other hand, I’ve had other horrible Hosting experience) but it looks like Paul didn’t have such a great experience with Dreamhost.

It’s a holidays – almost the new year. Last year around this time I switched to Dreamhost and I’ve been very very very very pleased with it.

Might I recommend that you give it a try?

Recently, I just renewed for a 2 year service. What do I get for just $7.95 a month?

-4.8GB of disk quota, which grows at 40MB a week.
-120GB of transfer quota, which grows at 1GB a week.
-Unlimited domains for hosting
-POP/IMAP/MySQL/PHP/CVS and a whole heap of other TLAs
-and, most importantly, shell access

Yep that’s right! Shell access! So you can use the command line to do stuff if the web ui doesn’t do it for you. It’s pretty hard to find that at this pricepoint!

So do yourself a favor, check out Dreamhost today and sign up for an account. Actually now that I’m reading the offer again, it looks like the disk quota might be a limited time offer, so you might want to go get it before they reduce the offering!

If not for yourself, then do me a favor and check out Dreamhost today and sign up for an account as I’ll get a Christmas gift from them as a referral.

During the Black Friday insanity, I picked up the Netgear WGR101 Portable Travel Router. And basically I ran into this problem:

Netgear Forums :: View topic – WGR101 will not work for more one user in Switch Position 2

Hello–I’ve had my WGR101 for a while and have kept up with firmware upgrades (currently running V1.0_09). Several months ago, I lost the ability for more than one users to consistently be attached to the WGR101 and using the Internet in Switch Position 2 (multi-user mode).

Here are the facts:
- Complete default WGR101 config (did a config erase)
- Connected to a private network (10.x.x.x) on WAN side, which in turn gets NAT out to the real world
- In position 1 (single user/bridge), I get an IP from the WAN (10.x.x.x) and have no problems whatsoever
- In position 2 (multi-user), I all users can see the WGR101, connect to it and those users are listed in the Maintenance-Attached Devices list with valid IPs (192.168.0.x)
- Multiple users in position 2 can access the Internet if they enter IP addresses, first attached user can do everything (surf Internet with names, not addresses)
- All users are getting DNS settings from the WGR101, no manual/hybrid configurations
- WGR101 properly gets DNS server IP addresses as shown in Maintenance-Status-Internet Port

So far, Netgear hasn’t been very responsive, and there seems to me quite a number of people in the message forums who have this same problem. I sure hope I get my $40 rebate so that this will become an only $10 loss.

Or better yet, if you know someone at Netgear, please let me know!

Hurray! The new Live.com Local website is up!

Now with Bird’s Eye View so that you can see things in 4 directions. For example, let’s look at my old friend lady Libery for a moment:

Not quite…

Still not quite…

Almost…

Woot!

With pushpin fun, you you can clearly see where I lived during my 4 years at Hopkins.

Give it a try!

Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : The Best Outlook Feature Ever

Create a new sticky note (File | New | Note or Ctrl Shift N will do the trick.)

Type some text in the note (anything will do, it doesn’t have to be long.)

Drag the note around the screen for a while (you can move it via the title bar just like a normal window.)

Now, for the big trick: Press CTRL Z.

Sit back and enjoy the show.

You can keep pressing CTRL Z again and again to reverse the process.

Pretty neat!