Intro: without any direct connection a priori (though, thinking again about it, perhaps I was in a psychedelic state to give Marie-George Buffet 5 points…), I recalled the song I propose as today’s song following a short discussion in the comments section of my friend Dan’s post about the French candidates to presidency (you should do that politiquiz as well: as for myself, I got Sarkozy and Bayrou on the top places with 10 points both- never mind whom I got on the third place :-)- and I trust the French will be smart enough to do likewise in their fast approaching elections…).
→ Read more Day: April 4, 2007
Econometrics: A few reasons to use Ox over Gauss
…though I am definitely going to try Gauss as well and learn it better than I know it at the moment (and I certainly think one should try many programming languages; each of them could have particular comparative advantages in specific routines etc.).
→ Read more The wine of the months for April: I go with the choice of vinul.ro
Excellent choice on vinul.ro (site in Romanian) for the months of April (and not only because I just tasted this excellent wine last week :-)): Missiones de Rengo ‘Reserve Carmenère’. The description of the Reserve Carmenère type in English, taken from the very well designed site of the “Viña Misiones de Rengo“:
→ Read moreOur Reserve Carmenère is of an intense violet-red colour, with scents of wild flowers and berries.