I have been working for some time on various systems for trading stocks, and thought I would share some of my observations and the lessons I have learned.

Message count for the 24-hour period ending 12:15 AM, 12/14/05:
Legitimate messages: 70
Spam messages: 607
Total messages: 677
That’s ridiculous. Thank goodness for filters.
EDIT: Totals for the month of December, to date: 654 legitimate messages and 6,957 spams, or 7,611 total messages. That comes out to 585.5 messages per day. The above totals do not include mail on [...]

Some things I’ve learned in my first quarter of law school:

Your notes from your first five weeks of law school are probably not going to do you any good in exam preparation.
It’s possible to go to a great school and have a lot of fun
CivPro is all about the rules.
Elements is all about Levi, Dworkin, [...]

The study is discussed on CNN.com. I would have thought the number would be more like 4 in 4. The 70% success rate of phishing messages is even more disturbing. Granted, phishing attacks have gotten a lot more sophisticated, but still; people shouldn’t get online and conduct sensitive transactions if they don’t know how to [...]

Exams finished: 1
Exams that left me feeling like a competent human being: 1
Exams remaining: 1
Firm interviews offered: 1
Remaining firms to hear from: 90+
Yeah, today’s good.

Sigh. 28 days of class and one review session produced 24 pages of notes. The last 4 or so pages are actually useful. The rest… well…

More proof that the roads are clogged with idiots.

DDT info on JunkScience.com. See also the Malaria Clock.

Or, “Why It’s Good to Watch What You’re Doing and Bad to Be a Bug in a Paper Mill.”
Found on one of my resume envelopes, fresh out of the box:

Drs. James Tour and Kevin Kelly of Rice University have built the world’s first single-molecule nanocar. This is just cool. Dr. Tour is awesome.