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This book ruined my ability to enjoy watching soccer.

Ok, that’s not literally true. I still enjoy watching soccer as much as I did before, but it definitely ruined any chance of me following soccer as a sport. It turns out, shockingly, that the overall outcomes are largely predictable, at least to a level of confidence that makes being a fan hard to imagine. Of course, if you’re a fan of statistics and possibly money, and of failed businesses that won’t die, and even of sports gossip, the it’s a great book. Also, I learned to love multiple regression.

And definitely don’t but into this fallacy.

It may be true of the commentary, but not of the game. The numbers generated are hardly random.

Looks like some progress on constitutional protections for information assets in the cloud. I can’t help wondering if this type of legislation is really effective, or if the loopholes in place for terror investigations make it a moot point. This bit was also interesting:

“Under current law, law enforcement does not need to acquire a search warrant to obtain email communications that have been stored for longer than 180 days.”

I spoke at a conference in Denver last week called EnergySec. We did a little 3 minute interview on it for the nCircle site.