Reading Time: < 1 minute CNBC Maria Bartiromo interviewing Saudi prince Awaleed, the largest shareholder of Citi Group (NYSE: C), after the US gov (aka we the tax payers) bailed out the Citi and the prince. Here are the terms (PDF). Maybe president Bush gave him assurance that his holding won’t get much diluted before the rescue? The video lasts
Reading Time: < 1 minute At Little Rock now. One new thing about my new job is more travel. Because I did not have much travel in my past jobs, I am in the mood for more trips. (source: http://littlerockarkansas.net/) Little Rock, Akansas is not a big town, but it got famous because of President Clinton was from here, he
Reading Time: < 1 minute According to cnanalyst: only two were up YTD: VisionChina (VISN) and NetEase (NTES, found by the fellow from my hometown Ningbo). Here is the list of top 5 and bottom 5. The first percentage number is the percentage change of Year to date. Your truely managed to picked up SPRD from the bottom 5. Rank
Reading Time: < 1 minute (Source: Yahoo Tech-ticker) or may I add Chinese kids, for that matter. One reason the New Oriental (NYSE:EDU), the China based private education company which specialized in TOEFL, GRE, SAT, ACT, College and Graduate entrance exams, has been so successful.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Normally I don’t talk about politics or religion in my blog. But I was indeed excited by the John McCain interesting VP pick (last Friday) shortly following Barack Obama’s historical nomination last week. I am not talking just from gender or race point of view. I am talking about the excitment this election generates from
Reading Time: < 1 minute Install software (web hosting) Drupal, WordPress and phpBB. Had problems with the Chinese input (display). Found the solution to WordPress problem from web. Re-install the phpBB with Chinese langugage pack manualy, because I could not add Chinese langugage after the fantastico automatic installation. I will fight the Drupal problem later on (with the confidence installing
Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update Sept 3) It appears we are all duped by this news. There are reports (mitbbs) that this while thing is manufactured by MacRumors, or someone in China. I was not surprised to see another Fu Rong Sister like thing. (Original) I heard about it from web these days, and found NY Daily news has
Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday I rided the DC-9 (Northwest Air) from MSP to STL. My seat is near the wing, and it was very noisy. So I did some search, and here is the wiki entry of DC-9. As I guessed, DC-9 is an old aircraft (30+ years old). Quote Wiki: “The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 (initially known as
Reading Time: < 1 minute Greenspan (regulators): for he kept interest rate too low (1%) for too long, during the recession after dot com bubble. Bush (politicians): for his failed Iraq war which cost American tax payers more than 500 billions so far. He asked American “go shopping” after 911, in addition to buying a car or a house. Democrats
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hillarious yet educational 🙂 See more my stuff @google.
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