Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

14 Dec 2006, 15:18 p.m.

Inspiration

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2006 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.

Kevan Davis has set up an online game that I inspired.

John Donaldson is the awesome prof who gave us a lecture on Black-Scholes option price modeling. Incidentally, despite what some may tell you, neither Excel nor Gnumeric nor OpenOffice nor Google Spreadsheets have built-in functions for pricing call options using Black-Scholes. Bah! How are we supposed to figure out whether Google's corporate governance is failing?

Comments

Sumana Harihareswara
17 Dec 2006, 12:38 p.m.

Hmm! Maybe I was using an outdated version of Gnumeric on my husband's computer. I'll have to check.