Reading Time: < 1 minute Saw this article from my friend Liu Shuhui’s blog. I think it’s kind of interesting because I thought my green card situation is very much like that. Not to mention the stocks, let’s don’t go there today 🙂 ====================== 譬如公车平常是十五分钟一班，当你花在等待的时间超过十分钟后，你会开始烦躁不安，但通常你会继续等下去，等到超过十五分钟公车还不来时，你除了咒骂外，也开始感到‘后悔’——你应该在十五分钟前就走路或坐计程车去的。 　　但通常你还会继续等下去，因为你已‘投资了那么多的时间’，不甘心现在改坐计程车，结果就越陷越深，无法自拔，直到公车姗姗来迟，你心理的困境才获得解脱。 　　但人生有很多‘目标’，并不像公车那样‘必定会来临’，而且投资的也不是你‘个人的时间’而已。如何避免蹈入陷阱在人生道上，如何避兔蹈入这类‘陷阱’，也是一门不小的学问，心理学家鲁宾(J.E.Rubin)的建议是： 　　1.确立你投入的极限及预先的约定：譬如投资多少钱或多少时间？ 　　 　　2.极限一经确立，就要坚持到底：譬如邀约异性，自我约定‘一次拒绝就放弃’，不可改为‘五次里面有三次拒绝才放弃。’ 　　 3.自己打定主意，不必看别人：事实证明，两个陌生人在一起等公车，‘脱身’的机会就大为减少，因为‘别人也在等！’ 　　4.提醒自己继续投入的代价。 ==================

Reading Time: < 1 minute I heard about the annual St. Louis International Film Festival every year, made a resolution to go there every year, but never made it. This year’s festival is coming, Nov 9 to 19. Here is the list of movies. There will be three Chinese movies, they are: Stolen Life starring Zhou Xun (Saint Louis Art Museum Thursday, November

Reading Time: 2 minutes When I was taking my first C++ class at graduate school, the professor has a favorite word “you guys should write a program that works, because if it does not work, you are writing a novel not a program”. Although I did wrote “novels” in one of his program assignments, I remembered his words since

Reading Time: < 1 minute I organized the links at the right side a little. Now I have the following categories. The link ends with * means you can not get access to it inside China, thanks to the GFW. BLOG: the blogs I read often, most of them are written by my friends. gseeker: I like this Chinese blog

Reading Time: < 1 minute Thought this is funny. The RedHat webmaster must be busy. After Oracle announced the RedHat linux support, now Microsoft joined the party – it announced the partnership with RedHat’s rival, Novell’s SUSE linux. So this is what I saw from RedHat’s web page: “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight

Reading Time: < 1 minute I happened to see this “Investment 101” from forun web site, a very small (boutique) research firm. Wish I had read it before jump into market 3 years ago. Oh well, I know even if I read it, I would forget it and make the same mistakes. A lot times we have to learn the lesson the hard way. It’s

Reading Time: 2 minutes I sold the remaing Symantec (SYMC) stocks today and I bought an old stock for me: the Ninetown Digital (NINE, recently changed name to Ninetown Internet). Here are my reasoning. Symantec moved up quite a bit in past serveral months. It reported good earning in Q2, but missed a penny in Q3 due to some weakness in

Reading Time: < 1 minute This is a good one. I got this from a programmer friend. Open a new document from Microsoft Word, type in the following: =rand(100,2) then hit “enter” or “return”. What did you got? There are many similar interesting hacks in the software we use daily. I think it’s just a way for programmer to express

Reading Time: < 1 minute It seems like I don’t have anything to do with C++ because I have not touched C++ much in this blog. I am a software engineer by trade; programming and debugging is a large part of what I do during the day. I was a little frustrated last two days by a memory problem shown only on

Reading Time: 2 minutes Words from Warren Buffett’s interview, mostly regarding his opinion on the markets, the full article is here. …Common stocks are part of a business. Markets are there to serve you, not to instruct you. You can often find a couple of companies that are out of line. Find one; get rich. Most people think that