Defenestrating Thoughts from the Bivouac

I’m having a heck of a time trying to get over jet-lag here. I’m in Zurich for a week long meeting with my European engineering teams. Originally I was calling it a “Summit”, but that makes it sound much more formal that it is; especially since people started asking if I’d tape the sessions to publish online. :-)

So we decided to call it a “Offsite”, except that we’re still in the home location for half the team. We could call it “meeting”, but that’s boring.

Anyway, I was talking about jet-lag. I’ve been trying to take advantage of being unable to sleep by doing as many of my “chores that require about a quarter of a brain to do” as possible. This way I don’t feel guilty wasting time, but don’t try to do something important.

So, I’ve updated my blog to Wordpress 2.5. You, the reader, won’t notice any difference, but I get to the use the new management UI; which so far is really nice. But, the backlog of 1900+ comments that needs to be moderated? Not that nice (stupid spammers).

I also went back into my Facebook account and fixed all the privacy settings. I’m so glad that Facebook finally fixed their privacy settings interface. It still not great, but it’s a lot better. So now, people on Facebook can probably actually see things in my profile.

The past few nights, I spent some time learning about and thinking about Option ARMs and how to invest based on the big waves of the Option ARM resets coming up. It’s especially interesting considering that the Bank of England, this morning, decided to also trade junk MBS’s for Treasuries. And the Bank of Scotland’s recent announcement. And countless other things that happened recently. Expect a big post on that soon. :-P

And, of course, I’m seeing all sorts of cool things here and have met some really cool people. I’ll start writing about all that soon. :-)