Fooled By Randomness

Posted on Mar 20, 2009 in Books, Finance After reading Nassim Taleb’s The Black Swan a few months back I kind of figured out that I might as well read Taleb’s first book on the subject, Fooled By Randomness as well. Both Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan make good points about the need of understanding the concepts of fat tale events. The book also makes good points about the things that take place around us being...
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The Devil You Know & Vicious Circle

Posted on Mar 19, 2009 in Books I’ve been a fan of Mike Carey’s writing for a few years now ever since I read his take on The Lightbringer in Vertigo’s Lucifer series and John Constantine in The Hellblazer series. So when I saw The Devil You Know sitting in a shelf at a local book store for under five quid I thought why not and picked it up. Devil You Know is the first book in Carey’s series about Felix...
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The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Posted on Mar 18, 2009 in Movies I watched The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button a few days ago and it’s a utter snooze-fest. If you’ve seen the trailer you already know the story. If you haven’t seen the trailer then the movie is about Benjamin Buttons who is born deformed in such a way that he ages backwards. That is he’s born old and keeps getting younger. Benjamin is raise by adoptive parents and then...
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Straight to your iPod – March 2009

Posted on Mar 18, 2009 in Music This month like any other month I have two CDs which I feel everyone should give a listen and throw on their iPod/iPhone (does anyone have other types of mp3 players? Zune? Anyone?). For March I have one really good CD and one mind numbingly insanely brilliant CD. To cover the really good one first, that would be Day & Age from The Killers. The album came out late last year and has been in...
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When Markets Collide

Posted on Mar 17, 2009 in Books, Finance I recently read Mohamed A. El-Erian’s When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change. The book has been sitting in my shelf for a few months but since it got the Financial Times Book of the Year Award last year and was hyped a lot over the holidays I finally caved and read it. I may have started reading the book with a bit of a bias because of all the hype...
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