Reading Time: 2 minutes I remember there is a movie called “Karate Kids”, but I am not talking about that; I am going to talk about the kids in my Taekwondo classes. Since I joined the local Taekowndo club, I have seen many kids, and what impressed me most is not the kid who got black belt at the

Reading Time: < 1 minute Obviously there is already a lot of excitement on this one, partly because of the success of similar plays such as UARM and CROX; partly because of Jim Cramer’s pump last night Dec 6, Jim did make a mistake saying it’s going out today (Dec 7), which is not true. It is going to be priced

Reading Time: < 1 minute According to Wikipedia, here are some of the controversy of Heelys: As of September 2005, some (US) schools can have Heelys. These shoes are usually allowed but the removable wheels cannot be in place. With the wheels removed, the shoes function just like any other pair of shoes. Some businesses; especially malls, discount retailers, warehouse

Reading Time: < 1 minute I went to the West County Mall to check out Heelys: at the Nordstorm and Dick’s Sporting goods; I happened to see a grandma is buying a pair of Heelys for her grandson. Note Nordstorm is considered as high end department store. Dick’s Sportings also carries Heelys but I did not see anyone trying them.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Google is aggressively promoting its online payment service Google Checkout lately. It’s offering $20 off $50 purchase at online store buy com. The aim is very obvious, eBay’s Paypal. To counter Google’s attack, Paypal is offering free shipping with a number of partners including Dell. Who will be the winner of this war? I don’t know. But one thing I know for sure

Reading Time: < 1 minute Heelys is the shoe can be used both for walk and skate, using the retractable wheel under the heel. It is most widely worn by kids and teenagers aged from 6 to 14, and from what I see from Zappos (the online shoe store), kids and parents are crazy about this. Now the company is filing for IPO,

Reading Time: < 1 minute I came back to St. Louis today. The weekend San Jose trip was great; both the weather and everything else. I got to see the Montery Bay, which includes 17 miles drive and world famous Pebble beach (golf course). Not to mention the Chinese food etc. As a guy in the tech industry, I always have

Reading Time: < 1 minute We had worst snow storm in my 6+ years stay in St. Louis. The thing makes life harder is the “sleeze”, or ice rain (instead of the snow). It freeze the car windows and doors quickly. I spent about one hour for normal 15 to 20 communte from work to home. This morning I spent

Reading Time: < 1 minute I heard about this 80-20 rule from a friend a while ago. It says “we spend 20% of our effort to accomplish 80% of the things; and then we spend remaining 80% of the time & effort to complete the remaining 20%…” I think that pretty well summerize what I was doing at my work

Reading Time: < 1 minute Normally as individual investors we don’t have access to the IPOs, as they are usually handled by the big investment bankers (Goldman Sachs, Merril Lynch,…), and the IPO stocks usually are sold to the institutions (a.k.a, rich people) and they can make the easy money. This has changed by the Google IPO in August 2004, at the time the founders