Monthly Archives: August 2005

Underwater Hockey

Posted on 24 August, 2005 by Simeon

I was just reading Charles Sterling’s blog about him trying underwater hockey, and it reminded me that I wanted to post about the joys of taking the sport back up. After not playing the game for ~3 years I’ve started … Continue reading →

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Google Desktop Development

Posted on 24 August, 2005 by Simeon

This morning Ryan emailed me some ideas for development projects with Google Desktop. I liked his ideas, and have been thinking of how it could be achieved. But my point is I went off to read the Google Desktop API … Continue reading →

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Composite UI Application Block

Posted on 24 August, 2005 by Simeon

We have just finished watching the Composite UI Application Block webcast from the August MSDN Webcast DVD (which could be a CD with its 180MB of data on it). I have to give big kudos to the patterns & practices … Continue reading →

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The Collapse of Barings

Posted on 18 August, 2005 by Simeon

I finished reading this book last weekend, I really enjoyed the story. It makes me want to learn more about the derivative markets, how options are priced and the modelling used to evaluate the effects of change.

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TopCoder – Open Qualification Round

Posted on 18 August, 2005 by Simeon

Well I’m not going to get into the Elimination Rounds. I was assigned VideoEncode and GridGame. I spent ~30 minutes of my 60 solving a problem that was really just a bit of algebra. I solved it using binary search, … Continue reading →

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