Over the weekend Duru and I were talking about how many wild spikes there were in the final minutes of trading on Friday. Like I suspected on Friday, that was a result of the Russell 2000 re-balancing. Some charts are so bad that I didn't even know whether the data was legit. Alan Farley has written a good article about what happened Friday.
On a different note, if you're still using Internet Explorer, you should know that "US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), is advising people to ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest security vulnerability in the software was exposed." Don't say I didn't warn you! (Hat tip to my Brother, Tony)
Just a general question: How come my blog shows on your blogroll as being updated last June 09, 2004. I've had more recent updates since then. Are you using a different tool? Just curious as I'm very new to this whole web publishing thing.
It looks like your pings to weblogs.com (or blogrolling.com, or blo.gs, etc.) aren't getting through. Did you change your noticiation settings in blogger? I see that you posted around 10 AM today, but a search at http://www.weblogs.com/2004/06/28/10.html shows nothing from you.
Sometimes the reason you don't get updates is b/c the blogroll has a different URL. Like I noticed on yours you have "http://bigpicture.typepad.com/" for the Big Picture. I had that URL on my blogroll for the longest and it never got update notifications. Then i realized that I had to add '/comments/' to the end of it.
Stuff like that is why I was saying I'm relying on Kinja and my newsreader more these days.