It' amazing to watch the global financial markets. Last night, when I went to bed, the headlines screeched "Markets tumbling in Asia". I wake up this morning, and the Asian markets look steady. Europe isn't crashing and burning. And would you look! Stock futures in the U.S. are way up. I guess the spoiled brats that sold their Mothers yesterday to make a point have had some time to sleep on their actions. And cooler heads will prevail? Nope, the press has chalked it up to a dependence on the hope that a bail out will pass - eventually.

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I've been having issues with FireFox 3 font rendering. I've not been too happy of a camper after I upgraded from FF 2.0. Here's some notes I've been keeping: FireFox 3 Upgrade Notes.

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It's amazing what a couple of days of bed rest and some intake of antibiotics can do for a sick man. By yesterday afternoon, my energy was really returning. I took it easy, but I was able to head to the stables and watch my daughter ride. It was a good day.

John Cook has published a nice article on The Code Project: Five Tips for Floating Point Programming. It's a good refresher article, with some deeper implications if you really want to get into numerical analysis. Here's the blog article and discussions. I have some circa 1970 references if you want to go further. Hopefully someone will take pity and add some modern references:

• First Principles Of Numerical Analysis, Burton Wendroff, 1969, Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 69-16406
• Numerical Analysis, A Second Course, James Ortega, 1972, ISBN 0-12-528560

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