Last February I wrote the following but left it as draft for some reason.

Last year I was able to connect with my classmates and childhood friends at the Russian Odnoklassniki.ru which some claim is used by successors of the KGB to keep tabs on overseas connections of Russians and others. Before that I signed up for LinkedIn hoping to never lose contact with colleagues…

Every couple years I take stock of the latest developments in computer operating systems. It helps me get an overview of innovations in computer technology and get up-to-speed in terms of what the “world” considers important for computers. Here are my impressions…

An exciting new project caught my eye recently. The description from the site reads:

Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide…

Daily Speculations is a blog mainly about the markets but hidden under the market context there are very interesting experiences, lessons, and thoughts about life in general. I have recently joined the discussion and hope to add my modest contribution (you can find what I have said so far by clicking on Legacy Daily in the list of the names on the left)…

When I catch myself thinking about something worth sharing, I take down a few sentences to come back to them in a future post. A few days ago, I wrote “An interesting longer term cycle seems to be repeating. We all learn something new every day but from time to time I find myself having the urge to learn a new discipline, new subject, or a new profession. The learning process is very exciting as it brings renewal and new ways of understanding the world…