Archive for February, 2008
Betting markets say Obama has 59% chance of winning nomination
(Via Hacker News.)
Bejing starts to pay for forex ’sterilisation’
Something’s got to give to keep the RMB so low and curb inflation. As China’s current account surplus rises, Beijing force-issues low yeild debt to state owned banks to lower the money supply. This process, called sterilization, requires the central government to dole out interest payments on [...]
“Hugh Pickens writes ‘CBC News has up an article by Peace Corps volunteer Heidi Vogt, a women who served in the small village of Gono in Mali five years ago and remembers letters dictated and hand-carried by donkey cart or bicycle to the next town. Vogt recently returned to see the changes that cellphone communications [...]
The Rise of Systemic Financial Risk: “MIT’s Andrew Lo describes how one rogue trader can impact global markets.
(Via Technology Review Feed – Tech Review Top Stories.)
View From Above. Proximate
The tools to discover the location of resources whether you’re in a hurry to find helicopter landing pad (on the Tokyo hospital roof, above) or somewhere to buy a decent pair of flying goggles are becoming increasingly mainstream and increasingly pocketable – using technologies from base station triangulation, GPS to WiFi Positioning.
I’m intrigued about [...]
Until a couple of weeks ago QR Codes were very much on the periphery of my attention radar. Then some of my colleagues working on the BBC Programmes BETA hit on the ingenious idea of automatically generating a QR Code for every BBC programme (just add /qrcode to the end of any programme page [...]