An open letter to my kids school: I would like to drag the NZ primary education system kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Like many parents, my primary means of communication is digital. Want to let me know something? Send me a tweet. Drop me an email. SMS me. I’ll get the message. I [...]
Chapter VI: A new beginning
The more observant amongst you will notice we’ve redone the site, for the fourth time in eight years. This is a more comprehensive overhaul, finally replacing my home-grown, roll-your-own, teach-yourself-PHP website I’d created in 2002 with a WordPress site. Why’d I go with WordPress instead of a more powerful, flexible CMS like Django, Drupal [...]
Looting a burning building
This is a great strategy for trading extreme emotions. When a trend collapses price will often slop about wildly until the market participants can settle on a new ‘fair price’ Best used on the shorter timeframes, do not use this strategy if you love the company, its product or the reasons for the preceding trend. [...]
