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I take part in an investing contest organized by visitors of the newsgroup misc.invest.mutual-funds. So far my returns for this year in the contest are just over 9% (slightly above
Tales of a Tech Finance Food Travel Geek & Author
I take part in an investing contest organized by visitors of the newsgroup misc.invest.mutual-funds. So far my returns for this year in the contest are just over 9% (slightly above
I haven’t updated my savings rate charts for a few months. Not much has changed but here is the updated list: Bank APY Emigrant Direct 5.05% HSBC Direct 5.05% Amboy
The India Fund Inc. now trades at a nearly 10% discount compared with a nearly 20% premium same time last year. The Indian stock market BSE index is now back
If you search for Oracle GUI Clients in Google, you turn up with nothing. After some more hunting, I found TOAD. I have been using the Free version of TOAD
Ate at Lemongrass at the Corner on Friday and can’t get enough of their Spicy Lemongrass Tofu, which the chef says is a dish he invented. Since the restaurant opened,
Continue readingLemongrass – New contender for the best Thai in Cville
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
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
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
Continue readingGripe 3, 4 with Oracle – concat + magic quotes
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
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
Continue readingCharlottesville up in the Best Small Places For Business And Careers