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I’m no particular fan of Henry Blodget but he’s clearly articulate and smart, savvy even. I wouldn’t go all gaga just yet a la motley fool and have him advise on my portfolio—if indeed he’s…

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Google I/O  innovate in the open consensus model… not monopolization Client — Connectivity — Cloud ——————————— mainframe –> pc —> web power –> weak –> power easy deploy —> hard deploy —> easy deploy.

Excellent discussion of efficient markets theory and related investment approaches from two of the most respected academics in the field Eugene Fama Ken French

A remarkable essay, if increasingly outlandish as he marches the reader inexorably towards the ‘singularity’. From extensive modeling of the historical data he develops a pretty compelling demonstration of the accuracy of what he terms…

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21 moral/ethical ways to do business better…

Apparently, Mark Templeton, the CEO of Citrix, is considered a credible advisor to organizations considering the move to Service Oriented application infrastructure and a bright future of innovation and efficiency that IT can bring to business. I really…

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Use a dictionary to count the number of hits by hostname from a proxy log file, where the 7th tab delimited entry per line is the host. KeyError is the exception thrown if a dictionary…

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Notes

Steve Holden (chair of many pycons and the PSF) has always wanted to learn twisted. He’s an experienced trainer, but in this session the roles are reversed. Holden’s the learner, but he’s still standing at…

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very good talk including guy from revolver and a bunch of Microsoft guys and Mark Hammond who’s the brains behind all the win32com features.