Reading Time: < 1 minute There are already a lot of talks about iPad now that Steve Jobs showed off his latest toy. The name is funky because “pad” has a lot of meaning, and there are people already making fun of that, such as this video at Youtube. But seriously, boy, this is cutting edge stuff in terms of

Reading Time: 2 minutes What a week. Stock market indices dropped significantly in last 3 trading days of the week, following many events in the week. 1. Scott Brown won MA senate race No one see this coming until recently. Looking back this is actually easy to understand. A few days before the Tuesday election, I was thinking, if

Reading Time: < 1 minute Maybe speculation lessons will be more appropriate. I bought 3 pharmaceutical stocks recently. With the outcome of MA senate race, US healthcare reform is unlikely be massive, which is good news for the pharmaceutical companies. I learned some lessons in the short span of trading small pharma stocks. I think it’s a good idea to

Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update 20Jan10) Removed the collision and comprehensive coverage from my 2001 Nissan Altima. This will cut the annual insurance premium in half: from $800 to $400. Now, find the other half of the car repair expense 🙂 (Original) I googled my car “rough idle” problem (aka it sometimes shake hard when the car is stopped

Reading Time: 2 minutes Forget today’s Google China news for a minute. We are at very interesting times in terms of technology, from apps, cloud (web based) computing (online data backup, for one), to net book, smart phone, e-readers, smart book and tablet. The past week’s CES showed us the explosion of a lot of hardwares I mentioned above

Reading Time: < 1 minute Index or value investing for retirement: so that we can sleep well at night; Crap shoot for speculation: so that we may get rich some day before retirement age; But those are just tactic I learned from Your Mind & Your Money series of NBR (PBS) and from my own experience. The most important lesson

Reading Time: < 1 minute Official link here: www.google.com/phone Walter Mossberg (AllthingsD, WSJ) Review “Google’s Nexus One Is Bold New Face in Super-Smartphones“, quote: I’ve been testing the Nexus One for a couple of weeks and I like it a lot. It’s the best Android phone so far, in my view, and the first I could consider carrying as my

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 (Update 04Feb10) Watched the “Outsourced” movie from Netflix on Feb 02 night, quite interesting. It has a similar theme with “Up in the Air”. (Original) Went to see movie “Up in the Air”. That’s the first time my wife and I went to see a movie. We figured time is running out for us to

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s that time again, the end of 2009 (and the decade of 2000s) means we can also look at the performance of mutual funds in past year/decade. The winner of US based mutual fund is CGM Focus fund, managed by Mr. Heebner, the fund’s manager since its 1997 launch. CGM Focus is a large cap