Business cards, Libor-rigging and Self-Interest

Going through my old business cards the other day, I spotted one for Tom Hayes, a Short Term Interest Rate Derivatives trader. Immediately it set me thinking whether this was the same Tom Hayes mentioned in the recent Libor-Rigging settlement at UBS. An Internet search did not throw up any categorical evidence that it was, […]

Accounting with Kashflow

I have been meaning to write a blog on my experiences with Kashflow for quite sometime, so finally here it is. Firstly why did I select Kashflow for my accounting needs, when every accountant will tell you to use Sage and I had previous experience of using Sage. Well to put in simply, I could […]

99Designs: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

99Designs is a crowdsourcing platform for graphic designers. We were interested in a new logo for Clarus and also curious about the modern 99Designs platform, so we hosted a ‘competition’ for the design of a new logo. We chose a ‘Silver’ competition (£339),  received 219 entries from 64 different designers, and are very happy with […]

ShareLaTeX

I recently stumbled across a little piece of magic, ShareLaTeX. I had just switched OS on my work laptop which meant reinstalling LaTeX again. It’s a windows machine, and I was also keen to be able to use my Mac Mini at home, so I started to look into using google drive with LaTeX. Whilst […]

Starting an Internship Programme at a Startup

In the UK, the notion of an internship is fairly new (to me at least). It was not straight forward to set up a program, so I share a few of the key steps I have found to be useful. The documents “Common Best Practice Code for Quality Internships” and “Internships that Work: A Guide […]

Getting started with LaTeX in WordPress

To get started with writing math within WordPress, I thought I would try using the JetPack plugin, it appeared to be the easiest to install (hosting on bluehost). This was not a good use of time, I should have just tried to get mathjax up and running, which in the end was not too complicated. […]