So I’m thinking oil prices will drop back to around $100/barrel within the next 12 months. I’m not taking bets though. My last prediction, albeit tongue-in-cheek, didn’t go that well. But still. Remember that’s 2008 dollars I’m talking in. And in 2008 dollars, the last big peak was indeed around $100, which makes a jump of [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Obligatory oil post
Posted in Nonsense on May 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Geohashing – All Colombo meetups are sadly at sea
Posted in Computing, Nonsense on May 22, 2008 | 7 Comments »
It’s from xkcd: http://xkcd.com/426/
Explanation here: http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page
Aerosmith
Posted in Music, Nonsense on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s the funniest thing. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but Aerosmith’s 1993 hit “Cryin” just triggers one of those nostalgic attacks that some people get when they hear a specific noise or get a specific smell associated with an incident or period. I’m one of those people — smell and music have [...]
Guvmint
Posted in Me, Nonsense on May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When one has to write a letter to the electricity board requesting a service fuse replacement, not knowing the Sinhalese word for ‘fuse’ becomes problematic. Not that I don’t know it — it’s been a decade and a half since the grade nine lesson on household wiring. And a decade since the last formal letter [...]
