Dickson's Rantings

Santa Claus Rally and January Effect

dickson — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:37:19 +0000

A Santa Claus rally is a rise in stock prices in the month of December, generally seen over the final week of trading prior to the new year.

The January Effect is a calendar-related anomaly in the financial market where financial security prices increase in the month of January. This creates an opportunity for investors to buy stock for lower prices before January and sell them after their value increases.

More studies on calendar effects of behavioral finance here.

No, it is not!

dickson — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:31:01 +0000

almost [ˈɔːlməʊst] adv little short of being; very nearly

Either my mail admin or Microsoft Outlook needs to understand the word "almost"

Intel’s “Single-chip Cloud Computer”

dickson — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:09:00 +0000

Had an interesting conversation this morning that made me remember an article on Ars Technica on Intel’s 48-core cloud-datacenter-on-a-chip. Couple that with Barrelfish, a research OS for multi- and many-core systems, we may see a new generation of new servers/data centers.

Here’s the Intel video on the chip (not very polished, but explains what it is):

This blog is up!

dickson — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:47:49 +0000

Finally… I now have a proper VPS hosting on Linode, and am running this blog and some other services off it

After a bout of running it on friends’ servers and a dabble with Amazon’s ECC, hopefully there WILL BE no more downtime/migration/get-off-my-server-because-it-is-more-than-4-years-old issues.

I will be redoing the site from scratch, based on experience from the last few attempts, and hopefully this will be something that will last.