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Amazon launched a new beta service a few months ago called Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) which is basically an easily scalable system that can be controlled programatically via a web service. This is very cool because it allows you to automatically scale up as your load increases and then scale down as the load decreases. […]
Filed by Popeye at June 27th, 2007 under Nerdy
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The Moth worlds are currently on at Lake Garda and Rohan appears to have found at least 10% as he’s smoking them all at this stage. Scotty seems to be next quickest and is sitting in a nice second place.
Unfortunately a lot of the boats are falling to pieces.
I really should get on with writing […]
Filed by Popeye at June 26th, 2007 under Sailing
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Some of you may know that I also own a sailing news site called Sailr, it’s an automated thing that scans the sailing news sites of the world and lists their latest stories… It has had some issues for a damn long time, for some reason some feeds from blogspot wouldn’t parse correctly (they came […]
Filed by Popeye at June 23rd, 2007 under Sailing
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I’m looking forward to the upcoming moth worlds, it will be interesting to see how they all go and if the Bladerider will live up to the hype.
Hopefully Scotty will get himself a top few finish to make up for the shitfight with customs!
For those of you wanting to maybe see the racing off in […]
Filed by Popeye at June 20th, 2007 under Sailing
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This boat is going to go around the world in a BIG hurry.
Its been almost two years since Francis Joyons Idec trimaran ended up on the rocks in south Brittany. The mighty skipper had just broken the solo Atlantic record and the 24-hr record as well, but this one has been bettered since, was […]
Filed by Popeye at June 20th, 2007 under Sailing
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Bollinger bands are pretty cool, however one thing that is hard to judge is the exact historical difference in the width between the bands. Here’s a quick indicator that I created a while back for Metatrader 4 which shows you the distance between the bands. To install it, copy it into experts/indicators, open it in […]
Filed by Popeye at June 20th, 2007 under Finance, FOREX, Trading
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I’ve been listening to an interview (have made it 30 minutes into it hehe) with a guy called Nassim Taleb and thought I’d have a look at the distributions of the currencies to see if I could see fat tails and how many black swans there are etc.
Thus far I’ve had a look at […]
Filed by Popeye at June 20th, 2007 under Finance, FOREX, Trading
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I’m growing a little bit concerned and impatient with my short USD/CAD positions, I’ve lost on all my trades the last couple of weeks simply by trying to get in early on a breakdown… wasn’t that a stupid idea
At the moment my realised P&L is still positive however if it doesn’t turn within […]
Filed by Popeye at June 19th, 2007 under Finance, FOREX, Trading
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Hehe is this cool or what?
What’s fun, cheap, good looking, and cleans a hardwood floor with an advanced search and navigation algorithm? An electrostatic dust mop attached to a radio-controlled car. Vroom!
Filed by Popeye at June 15th, 2007 under Nerdy
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I typed in http://scott.projectsomewhere.com this morning and got a big fright, at first glance the first thought that went through my head was OH SHIT, what have I done… my site is showing up instead of the correct one!
Thankfully after taking a closer look I realised that Scott switched themes to the great Hemingway. I […]
Filed by Popeye at June 15th, 2007 under Blogroll
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