Reading Time: < 1 minute I like ice cream. The one I liked most is not hagen daz, it’s a little known place called Ted Drewes. If you do a google search on “st. louis frozen custard”, it will show up on the top. It’s located at Chippewa, very close to my old apartment. This is a very popular place in St. Louis. In the
Reading Time: < 1 minute I am not going to explain how to make money using Google AdSense. Here I just put a real world example: a successful web enterprenur got a check from Google. Guess how big is the check: almost 1 million Canadian dollars. And here is the link. The nice thing about his web site is that he runs it by himself. So after he
Reading Time: 2 minutes The following was written on July 19, 11PM. This evening we had a big storm here in St. Louis. When I walked out of the door at the TKD place at Woodson plaza, the sky was full of black clouds and the wind is blowing hard. I hesitated for a minute and decided to drive
Reading Time: < 1 minute The gas price hang around at $3.00 for a few days now. The temporature is even hotter, it’s more than 100 F. Looks like it stay at 100 for a few days. Maybe we all drive too much and emit too much CO2 from our cars?
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have not figured out the best way to search my posts. The Word Press (blogging software I am using here) provides a default search button, which is at the top of the side bar, does a decent job and will show all the post with the “key word”. The reader need to use the browser’s “Find” functionality to narrow
Reading Time: < 1 minute Watched the Charlie Rose Show with Warren Buffett Part 2. One interesting comment from Warren Buffett is “when I decided to buy a stock, I intended to hold the stock for life. I don’t have an exit strategy”. This is really something. In the reality I think Warren does sell stocks from time to time,
Reading Time: < 1 minute To me this is really a nusance: some Chinese web pages are in UTF-8 (unicode), some are in GB2312. Internet Explorer can not determine the Chinese code format from a web page header and makes a wrong guess. Basically the user has to go to View => Encoding and try those two formats to see if it
Reading Time: < 1 minute Charlie Rose, the famous TV talk show host at PBS, has this 3-part series show features Warren Buffett. The show is played in PBS station in late night. Here is the link of Google Video for Part 1 (it’s free as of now). I watched it last night. Here is an interesting comment I heard from Buffett:
Reading Time: < 1 minute The gas price is creeping up again. This weekend the regular unlead costs about $3.00 here in St. Louis. Last time it broke the $3 barrier is post Katrina. It seems siutation is not going to improve in the near future due to geopolitical reasons (Iran, North Korea), more importantly, the supply and demand trend.
Reading Time: < 1 minute There are a lot of hype about Web 2.0 lately. As I learned more about it and I believe some are not just hypes, e.g., the RSS, XML, and the del.icio.us bookmarking site with social networking and tagging capabilities. I have 5 computers (3 at home, and 2 at work), and I used 3 of them frequently. I would like to
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