Tata Motors – TTM
I opened a position in Tata Motors Ltd. a few days ago when the share price in Rs. dropped below 700. According to my ADR premium tracker, the premium on
Thai 99
Ate at Thai 99 (at JPA) yesterday, which has long been my favorite Thai place to eat in Charlottesville and one of the best places for Thai food that I
Gripe 3, 4 with Oracle – concat + magic quotes
Concat: Most of the database queries I run at some point are used to generate HTML and rather than go through the results of the query and add HTML to
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Bookmark Business Cards..
A few months ago I got vertical business card sized bookmarks printed for The Internet Book Database from Printing For Less and I was impressed. They helped me make several
Charlottesville up in the Best Small Places For Business And Careers
This year Charlottesville is no. 19 in Forbes’ annual list of Best Small Places For Business And Careers up from no. 32 last year. Charlottesville has always been decently ranked in
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Interesting Survey from Scottrade + A million bucks
Over at Yahoo Finance! – I read this article from Marketwatch – Young investors heading to the Internet for financial help. If you are in your 20s or 30s and
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Ruby (no Rails) + FastCGI
One of the projects I’m working on is recreating the Surplus Property website at UVA. We are doing this in Ruby+FastCGI, which I’m using for that first time. It took
Gripe 2 with Oracle – Additional Columns in Group By
In the MySQL world, I can do this: select a, b, c, max(d) from e group by a In the oracle world that results in: ORA-00979: not a GROUP BY
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Gripe 1 with Oracle – Pagination with queries.
Two months ago I moved to the Department of Procurement Services at the University of Virginia. Now I get to use Oracle for the first time and it is an
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FP!
Welcome, I plan to use this site to blog about stuff that doesn’t really fit on other blogs I run, that are focussed on their own topics – Personal Finance