Links and some stuff I find interesting

Finance Related Sites are here

My Finance Blog is here


STATA links and tips

I am a big fan of STATA. Here are a few sites that I find useful.

STATA website The FAQ page is pretty useful

Mitchell A. Petersen at Northwestern has a great site on programming in stata with particular focus on standard error estimation and clustered standard errors. http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/petersen/htm/papers/se/se_programming.htm

University of Wisconsin-Madison http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/sscc/pubs/stat.htm

UCLA http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/default.htm

Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/statalist/ (doesn't get much use)

Amusing Stuff

Can't understand what I say in class?
Read this: http://english2american.com/

Personal Stuff

Gig & music reviews..see my blog
Currently getting heavy rotation on my ipod
Bloc Party - A weekend in the city
Cracker - Greenland
Arctic Monkeys - Your favourite worst nightmare
British Sea Power - The Rise of British Sea Power
The Libertines - no website as they pretty much broke up
Franz Ferdinand
Muse - Absolution
Camper Van Beethoven - New Roman Times
Pixies - Anything by them - although I the live recordings of their recent shows (including Raleigh) are amazing.

All time favorites:
Cracker
Radiohead
White Stripes
The Clash
The Damned

Other notable mention:
Sleater Kinney
Jeff Beck
QOTSA
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
Sigur Ros

Guitar Stuff

Guitars:
 

Dean EVO Special

Fender Strat

Ovation

Taylor

Line6 Flextone Plus

Vox 

Free recording software: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Cool software specifically for guitar (not free): http://www.sonomawireworks.com/

Good music websites
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/ http://www.catscradle.com http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/C1074

http://www.archive.org The internet archive - contains a large data set of live music recordings - search for your fave band.

MG Stuff

I am the happy owner of a 1977 MGB.   I even have an MGB blog that describes all the things I done to this poor car.

http://www.mgexperience.net a great site for advice etc.
http://ncmgcarclub.org/ our local MG car club