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My Favourite Journal Providers

» by Chewxy October 25th, 2007 at 2:35 pm » Comments (5)

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 [...]



Old Work

» by Chewxy October 24th, 2007 at 7:40 am » Comments (5)

Sometimes what you did in the past does come back to haunt you.
In 2000-2001, my friends and I made the school website for my old school. We actually spent more time bufooning around, playing Age of Empires II, Counter-Strike, and watching cute shows like Bunny Slippers and making stupid stuff on Flash than actually working [...]



Why Emo

» by Chewxy October 23rd, 2007 at 3:56 am » Comments (3)

Hashie read my last entry and asked why am I emo. I’m not very emo in the first place. But there are several things in my head bursting to get thru.
One, obviously, is my damn assignment. I still have some 20 articles to read and digest and shit it out in 2000 words (the writing [...]



Never Tell

» by Chewxy October 22nd, 2007 at 4:15 am » Comments (6)

Quote:
Never show anyone. They’ll beg you and they’ll flatter you for the secret, but as soon as you give it up… you’ll be nothing to them
-Alfred Borden, The Prestige

This I agree. How many times have you shown someone something, and they immediately lose interest? Part of the world is keeping up the magical illusion. Breaking [...]



Talk in Numb3rs

» by Chewxy October 4th, 2007 at 3:14 am » Comments (24)

I aDmit , I’ve got nothing better to do (well, actually, I have 1 assignment, and 1 tute question to do), so I’ve decided to talk in Numb3rs. Not abOUT the show, of course. Or mAYBe it is :D.
I’ll wRITE about Justin Wolfers. A yoUng economist, he’s absolutely brilliant in prediction markets. He’s gUEsT blogging [...]