The New York Times Opinion Pages | OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR By MICHAEL DURBIN MAY 7, 2010 Chapel Hill, N.C. ON Thursday afternoon, the Dow plunged 1,000 points within a few minutes, followed by an equally sudden recovery. We don’t know all the details about the drop, but it was almost certainly the result of computer or … Continue reading Fixing Wall Street’s Autopilot
Author: Michael Durbin
I'm a software engineering manager in the banking industry and I like to write. My wife Becky Broun and I live in Carrboro, North Carolina.
A Call of the Wild Ends Too Soon
The Chapel Hill News and Raleigh News & Observer, March 8, 2009... The reports a while back of an improbable cougar sighting in Chapel Hill reminded me of my own series of backyard encounters with a feral feline. Four years ago my family moved here from Chicago into the Oaks Villas, a tidy subdivision alongside … Continue reading A Call of the Wild Ends Too Soon

