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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009A Demon of Our Own Design
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Well, sometimes you come across a really interesting book and you just can’t help but put its picture on your blog.
Truth be told, I have not completed reading it yet… but … after the first 2-3 chapters of reading, it is really, really getting me engaged. 
BTW, pls do not try to read more on this article.. still consolidating my thoughts…
Interesting Problem Introduced by CDOs
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Hmmm….
I find the idea of securitising mortgage loans pretty interesting, i.e. moving it into tranches and minimizing risk for all parties. Hehe.. but it does seem to have another unique problem….
By breaking lumping together many mortgages and then breaking them up into tranches to be sold to many disparate investors… there is no longer the concept of a whole mortgage belong to one unique lender….
Without the whole mortgage, sellers will not be able to restructure the loans for a win-win solutions. Interesting You-tube video.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPGqwtQL94I&feature=user
Google Suite of Applications
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Boy.. this is the first time I see a website entirely based on Google Docs and Spreadsheets!
Just show the power of google suite of applications!
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dc6wx7jg_43cqdn68df
But then.. .how is he going to build page rank huh?
Money As Debt
Friday, September 19th, 2008Just went through a long.. but very interesting video one of my friends sent me! Really learned quite a bit about it…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279
But I kind of think it is a little exagerrated by some environmentalist + monarchy/communist people. Though it is true that the money supply will keep increasing because of the interest payments… which has been the case for the past many years…. but this does not necessary translate to consumerism and more trees being cut etc….
The economy can very well produce the same amount of goods. The increase in money supply will just produce inflationary pressures as more money is chasing the same amount of goods. System can still be stable… its just that money will lose its value over time … and like what the video said… it will have the same effect as imposing a tax on those with money….
And surely, that cannot be a bad thing right? Rich people with loads of dollars being taxed more… to create a more equal economy? Hmmm…
Our Polytechnic’s Internship
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Hmmm… I just got wind of this… and could not stop laughing…
Today my girl was telling me about her internship period. Basically, she was attached to an individual for 4 months and she was tasked to write out an entire e-commerce portal. So for 4 months, she will go to the person’s house and google intensively to do up the solution….
I felt sorry for her… that was until I heard about…
THE BANGLAH INTERN
Power Problems in Pakistan
Friday, August 1st, 2008
One of the main problems faced in doing an outsourced operation is power. Yes, fast expanding economies results in power demands increasing at exponential rates. Coupled with the problem that building a Power Plant take a couple of years… this generally results in a temporary (hopefully) shortfall of power.
I believe… another problem with such countries is the subsidizing of electricity. Somehow, even though there is insufficient power to prevent load shedding, authorities are prevented from correcting this demand and supply inconsistency by raising the price of power. Electrical power like oil prices are fixed at artificially low prices for fear of upsetting the general populace (my own guess… no official data to verify).
Just recently, the state-owned Telephone company launched a strike nation-wide over wages.
Image Rendering with LiteBox
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Ever an easy way to showcase your images in an enlarged view? Need an easy way to programmatically come out with a photo gallery that looks cool, but absolutely suck in Flash skills?
Well, LiteBox is here to help! It is clean, easy to use, light weight and looks really good. Fantastic for rendering image based galleries. Feel free to check out their official link here.
The Shape Shifter – Mr Faisal Shah
Monday, July 14th, 2008
I was watching the series Heroes. It talked about human beings having super natural prowess due to their genetic combinations. Within the series, there was a girl who could magically change her appearance and surroundings. Sometimes, she could be a really hot chick while the next moment she can transform to a maternal grandmother. I call her – The Shape Shifter (Heroes Style).
Recently, I had the honor to meet another Shape Shifter (Pakistan Style). And yes.. you are right… he is that person on the left…. Mr Faisal Shah from Pakistan.
Also, if you notice, I have purposefully highlighted Faisal Shah and Pakistan and refrained from using a generic term like he, a person, etc… This is my most carefully Search Engine Optimized article on Mr Faisal Shah from Pakistan. Even the image tags have alt text pointing to Mr Faisal Shah.
Any readers of this blog, feel free to link to this article with important keywords like Faisal Shah and Pakistan to further boost its ranking.
SI Systems and Products
Saturday, June 28th, 2008In the computer services industry (Software), there tend to be 2 type of software developments. Customized System Integration(SI) projects and Software Products. SI Projects are one off customized solution developed to suit a particular business need. They tend to range in the thousands of dollars as the system is only sold once. Most consumers will only come into contact with such software at their work place. Software Products on the other hand refer to things like your Microsoft Windows. After developing the product, many copies of it are made to be sold to the rest of the world.
Generally, Customized Systems not only costs more, but also tend to be of lower quality. Quality issues creep in as they are not tested with a large enough user base. It is not surprising to discover new bugs in the software even after it has been commissioned and running for over a year…. And that’s where lucrative maintenance contracts creep in….
Software Products on the other hand tend to be widely tested by their user base. Recently, I had to pick up the loose ends of a project and could not be more disgusted by the development efforts of one of my developers…. It was a Joomla application, done with no regards to the Joomla framework. Darn… looks like there will be heck of a lot of work for me to touch up….
For those of you who are familiar with Joomla, read on… for other more ordinary folks… please ignore this…
