http://www.acooke.org/cute/Andrew Cooke's blogWed, 19 Nov 2008 22:04:45 GMTPyRSS2Gen-1.0.0http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://www.acooke.org/cute/LookingGoo0.html I know the central bank isn't going to talk the country down, but this is pretty impressive anyway - http://www.bcentral.cl/eng/policies/presentations/board-members/pdf/2008/jdg18112008.pdf The chart on page 32 is particularly eye-catching. I guess the issue now is: how do you tackle inflation *and* recession? Is inflation really going to just disappear? I think I will still be investing in a...LookingGoo0.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:04:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/BNPMembers0.html This is all over the British press, but it's not easy to find a copy (Wikileaks has one, but is down). Anyway, turns out it's currently at http://www.bnpmemberslist.co.uk/ and, of course, at http://cryptome.org/bnp-members.zip So, what do you do when you get the list? Search for your own surname of course.... I almost fell of my chair. I do *not* live (and never have) in Macclesfield, I prom...BNPMembers0.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:06:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/Etherpad0.html This is going to be useful for teleconferences... http://etherpad.com/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/19/etherpad-shows-google-docs-how-its-done/ It's a shared page you can all write on at once. If it really works, it will be great (Google docs is awful at joint editing). Andrew Etherpad0.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:24:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/NOAODPPCha0.html I worked here - it was a bit odd, for two reasons. First, I don't feel I ever managed to fit in socially in La Serena (I was apparently known as "antipatico"). Second, the project I was involved in was not very productive. It's possible I should have been more forthright about what should have been done, but my impression was that there were already too many different opinions and too few peopl...NOAODPPCha0.html Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:07:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/Triggerfis0.html Fake a tower, get the phone to respond, and you have a location for a person('s phone). http://www.google.cl/search?q=Triggerfish+cell http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081116-foia-docs-show-feds-can-lojack-mobiles-without-telco-help.html Andrew Triggerfis0.html Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:36:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/CDSsaGoodT0.html Some interesting points in this interview - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/economy/17gramm.html/?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all Are CDSs good or bad things? The argument presented there is that they helped spread risk. But perhaps it is better to have a few banks fail than bring everything down? Perhaps the issue here is what most damages consumer confidence? Or perhaps it is wh...CDSsaGoodT0.html Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:18:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/Chavezairs0.html Surreal. I haven't been following "loony left" politics in the UK/USA much recently; I wonder what the standing of Chavez is there at the moment? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/17/hugo-chavez-venezuela-wiretaps Andrew Chavezairs0.html Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:04:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/MicrosoftO0.html "Domain models can compile down to SQL. DSLs can compile down to domain models (which can compile down to SQL)." - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3029 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/oslo I'm always torn, with stuff like this, between frustration at not being able to use it (since no-one I work for wants to be locked in to MS) and the worry/awe that the layers of abstractions are so highl...MicrosoftO0.html Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:38:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/DeclineFal0.html Interesting article on the mess people are making - http://jamesshore.com/Blog/The-Decline-and-Fall-of-Agile.html Andrew DeclineFal0.html Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:44:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/PlopMOSES0.html http://code.google.com/p/plop/wiki/Premises http://code.google.com/p/plop/w/list http://metacog.org/doc.html the properties of programs and program spaces can be leveraged as inductive bias to reduce the burden of manual representation-building, leading to competent program evolution. Not sure I understand this - need more time... Andrew PlopMOSES0.html Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:58:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/Food0.html Friday we went out for a meal at the Centre Catala - http://www.centrocatalan.cl/es_restaurante.php - just before I left for the States. It was good, but pricier than we normally spend. We started with pisco sour + vaina, then two main courses, a glass of wine and a desert - total was around 25.000 including tip, if I remember right. I had lamb with scallop potatoes. I guess it was a leg cut -...Food0.html Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:46:00 GMT