Software are not people. They’re stupider than people. Here’s a list of stupid software I’ve encountered (and got very frustrated with) in the past week:

EViews 6
I know I’ve given Eviews 6 quite a thumbs up. But that was on a small scale of data (about 5000 observations - like all my econometrics assignment have). But […]

I’ve been pretty nihilistic a few days ago. I’ve been mentally deconstructing everything and anything, from ideas and concepts, to actual objects (aka my old dead mouse).
I was a pain in the arse if you were arguing with me those days. I’d promptly deconstruct every of your argument to nothing. And then leave.
But today… ah… […]

On Bad Data
I laughed/cried myself to sleep last night over this:

It was funny. And sad at the same time. I actually post this up for cfgt to see, since I’m likely to be sleeping when he wakes up.
Bleh, totally not normal (Jarque-berra proves its way too skewed and kurt - by 45 million times! LOL!). […]

Here are some email stupidities that happened to me over the last few weeks:
Spam and Chain Mail
I was so tired with chain mail that when I received the Microsoft + AOL chain mail (see below), I fired back an inflamatory email. Here is the whole email record:

The chain email, click to enlarge1

my reply, click to […]

Mine’s Emerald Insight. Why? They provide such clear text, as opposed to the fuzzy text from JSTOR, or other Journal archive sites (ABI/Inform, EBSCOHost, that sort of thing). ScienceDirect (Part of Reed Elsevier) occasionally does provide clear text in their PDFs, but generally, the older the article, the more it looks like it was being […]