Sometimes there is a need to work with sub-optimal technologies such as a windows operative system behind a ssh-blocking draconian firewall. How worse can it get?

The pound has been hit badly over the last couple of years, however things can get worse as recent data highlights more problems.

How to set up Sphinx and Github to create great documentation for your project on Github servers.

Social sites are here to stay and some of them are extremely useful for research. My thoughts on the obsession to block them in the corporate world.

A roller coaster year which started from the legacy left by the bankruptcy of Lehman and lead to the beginning of my career as specialist consultant in quantitative finance and data analysis.

A random list of git related commands.

A collection of bullet points I'm compiling during my reading of Programming Erlang by Joe Armstrong. This is a work in progress post which will finish once I finish reading the book and become an Erlang master of the universe.

Google aquired Etherpad, then opensourced the code and soon after piratepad.net launched. Zipping fast process.

A To Do list compiled as a document. Not the best way to compile your todo list, but it's a start. I also use it to test all possible mark-up combination and tune the weblog css.

Rendering anchors can be painful