Archives: August, 2008

ландшафт…plus c’est la même chose.

 
A Tisettanta Charlotte bed with a Hülsta Air Dream 3000 mattress.
Its been a long, long time since I bought a new bed and I wish I’d done it sooner as I’m now sleeping considerably better than I have been. At weekends I was waking-up at my usual weekday time but now I can happily doze [...]

I was on the running machine at my local gym watching the Sky news coverage last night but what surprised me the most was how what was reported two days ago as an invasion of South Ossetia by Georgian troops had somehow morphed into an aggressive assault on Georgia by Russian troops. Just to be [...]

 
Maybe even America’s only real hope for “change”?

This week I wanted to knock-up a tool to test the performance of our Monte Carlo grid with a set of more complex algorithms so it seemed like a good idea to start by replicating flows from production. Each incoming trade is timestamped on receipt and thus could be replayed into the test grid at [...]