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Happy New Year

Posted Sun, 12/31/2006 - 11:00pm by admin

Wishing everyone Happy New Year 2007.
My new year resolution is to update my blog at least once a day. Well, I know that's going to be difficult, but I hope that I will be able to write something at least 3-4 times a week.

Personal Finance resources

Posted Wed, 12/06/2006 - 4:43pm by admin

It really amuses me to see how easily people get carried away by next hot tip for investment. It would be time well spent if they also spent some time knowing about fundamental analysis.

I would like to recommend following sources:
1. "Getting Going" column by Jonathan Clements in Wall Street Journal
2. "The intelligent investor" by Benjamin Graham (Graham is considered guru of Warren Buffett)
3. "If you're clueless about Accounting and Finance" by Seth Godin (easy reading)
4. "A Random Walk down Wall Street" by Burton Malkiel (easy reading)
5. "Stocks for Long Run" by Jeremy Siegel (good for statistical data)
6. "Common sense on Mutual Funds" by John Bogle

HOFFOS December 2006 Winner

Posted Sun, 12/03/2006 - 7:27pm by admin

HOFFOS December 2006 Winner is Michael Curran. Michael started the project NVDA.

Non-visual Desktop Access (NVDA) was started because of the need for a free open-source non-visual access solution for windows.

Written entirely in python, NVDA is a functional screen reader that allows you to use Windows with out vision, by using MSAA, the windows API, and a speech synthesizer to convey what is happening. This project is released under GNU GPL license.

It is a work in progress, and it is nowhere as functionally rich as such screen readers as Jaws and Window Eyes, but it has been pretty useful to people who can't afford the more expensive screen readers.

Michael, Congratulations for your award. On behalf of the community, I would like to thank you for all your hard-work.

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