Yearly Archives: 2009
9% Compounding yield over 19 years
I found out today, that my investment in Bonus Bonds I made when I was 13 has had a annualized compounding yield of 9% over all these years. That’s pretty good performance. If only I had the vision to have … Continue reading
Odd Advertising
The company across the road from where I work, keep having their adds pop-up on my blog. I’m very puzzled what AdSense words I’ve mentioned to trigger it….
Forcing a SATA II HDD to work as SATA I
A few weekends ago, I advised my father-in-law, that buying a new SATA disk should work fine. Hours of blue-screen-of-death’s later, the BOIS did not see the disk, but XP would boot then BSOD. Everything I had read said SATA … Continue reading
LinkedIn add Twitter dribble to RSS Feed
OMG, WTF, LinkedIn developers in their lack of vision have added support for Twitter into LinkedIn, thus turning it from a business network tool, into a Facebook style pile of dung. I’m ok with that, but what I’m not cool … Continue reading
Outliers
I purchased Outliers while in America this year. Funny book buying story: there was a 20% off sticker of the jacket, but no price tag. All books in New Zealand have a price sticker on the back, as they are … Continue reading
