Reading Time: 2 minutes WordPress 3.1.1 Finally I got hands around my blog (this one stlplace) and did the WordPress upgrade. I put off the upgrade in the past primarily due to my laziness: there is no automatic update due to I was running on WP 2.0.2. The upgrade itself is not too bad, I followed those two articles
Reading Time: < 1 minute Friends, in case you received an email selling you Viagra online, which appears sent from my Yahoo email. I apologize. Obviously I don’t sell those. Some hackers used my Yahoo email and did this. Please ignore that mail. More information (prevention tips) about this tactic can be seen at: I had my email account hacked
Reading Time: < 1 minute Blogging is declining. My friend Wang Jianshuo reminds me about this trend. Obviously Jianshuo has much more authority on this because he started blogging on Sept 11 2002 and has a large followers at his blog. On the other hand, I have joined Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter this year (not necessarily in this order). And it
Reading Time: < 1 minute How much Google knows about you? The google dashboard. I found out the google search I did last Saturday on “enable root on Mac” (by going to google => “My Account” => “web history”). I believe there is a setting a google user can change to disable google to collect the data. But for me
Reading Time: 2 minutes Gainskeeper ™ is a little program keeps tracks of stock cost basis, and the profit and loss. Scottrade provides this service to its customers. This program is not without problems (for me), such as mess up positions and long/short term profit/loss. It seems to me the program improved quite a bit lately, or it could
Reading Time: 2 minutes Through the years I have bought books, digital cameras, computers, mouse, shoes and many other things on the web, from Amazon, eBay, buy.com, Sears, Zappos and so on. In some stores I could pick up the merchadise at the store (Sears, for one). I did that at Circuit City before its bankrupcy. But today is
Reading Time: < 1 minute Google finance released the new interface last week. I did not feel comfortable with it at first sight, but after reading its explaination and spent some time on it, I am feeling more comfortable with it now. One quick thing, those who are interested in financial statements may complain where is the good old financial
Reading Time: < 1 minute Yahoo tech-ticker Criteria * 20% quarterly year-over-year revenue growth * 25% quarterly year-over-year earnings growth * Trades at a P/E ratio below 12 Apply it in Google finance stock screener (here is the link), it finds 134 companies (this number could change as the stock price, PE ratio changes daily).
Reading Time: < 1 minute A poor man’s blog. A microblog service which shutdowns from time to time without notice (in the old times, until Hillary’s guy called to delay the shutdown yesterday). A gossip with limit of 147 character. A tool appears used by Iranian opposition and youth to exchange information on campaign and protest. A tool used by
Reading Time: < 1 minute From ABC news. Maybe I will visit that place sometime.
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