The lazy economist

Here is a cool blog.

Ubuntu 11.04

Looks like Ubuntu 11.04 will bring some significant changes: new GCC, new Gnome, and new file system.

Harddisk partition guide

Here is a detailed guide to hard drive partitioning for Ubuntu.

Labelbook

The Stata command "labelbook" can be used to create output that shows both the raw values and value labels side by side, a feature very helpful dealing with second-hand data sources.

Estimation of quantile treatment effects with Stata

Here is a very useful article published on Stata Journal.

Linux vs. OSX

Here is another interesting comparison, and some interesting comments there.

Unix philosophy in practice

Here are some hints.

OpenMx 1.0

Just realized that this SEM package for R has released version 1.0. Great...

Using emacs with rcs

I find this blog post regarding how to use emacs and rcs together very helpful.