A new version of an interesting stock program, Merchant of Venice has been released. Venice is a stock market trading program that supports portfolio management, charting, technical analysis, paper trading and experimental methods like genetic programming. Venice runs on UNIX, including Mac OS X and Windows.
Reason has a interesting interview with John Perry Barlow. The topic starts out about Barlow’s coming appearance on Discovery Channel as a subject in a reality show on the aging of the Boomers, but it always seems to get around to intellectual rights. These are vital issues for discussion in a “free society”.
I get pilloried for saying this — “Oh, Barlow thinks the Grateful Dead model ought to extend to the world” — but I don’t see any reason why it can’t. It worked for us and it has worked for everyone else I’ve ever seen try it. I think that what we stumbled into was a real deep — we didn’t know it at the time — a deep quality of how an information economy works. We really did just stumble into it. We just decided it was morally shaky to toss people out of concerts just because they had tape recorders. It’s bad for your karma to be mean to a Deadhead.
I’m sure many tech workers will greet The Street.com’s article on IBM’s planned hiring. Let’s hope for more…
Found the permalink problem and I think it’s corrected. Comments should work now.
I’m still trying to get everything working here. Sorry, but the comments will be operational soon.
Being the first post, I should introduce myself. My name is Steve Squier and I am a linux user, programmer and aficionado; I hope all of these roles can be represented and discussed here. Two areas I try to follow are the use of linux in small business and its adoption in education. I’d be interested in hearing about not-for-profit success stories also. I may touch on web standard design a little but mostly as I learn it. And so it begins..
