Reading Time: < 1 minute From ABC news. Maybe I will visit that place sometime.

Reading Time: < 1 minute May housing starts beats expectation, quote Bloomberg: U.S. builders broke ground on more houses than forecast in May, offering a sign that the industry’s slump, now in its fourth year, may be approaching an end. The 17 percent increase in housing starts to an annual rate of 532,000 followed a 454,000 pace the prior month,

Reading Time: < 1 minute Not really. Some issues: eligibility, trade-in value of your old clunker (maybe more than $3,500 or $4,500), also your clunker may worth more than its face value (consider the insurance cost and property tax of a new car). MyMoneyBlog has did some analysis on his/her own (used) vehicles; and Edmunds.com has a comprehensive article including

Reading Time: < 1 minute Via Podcast. Partially inspired by an idea suggested at bbs. But I want to automate it a bit more, here is the software: DopplerRadio. It has both iTune and Windows (Media Player) version. Here is a detailed Windows guide written by Jake Ludington. The MarketPlace RSS feed is: http://feeds.americanpublicmedia.org/MarketplacePodcast The same site also has feed

Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday President Obama announced he is going to support the Tobacco bill (details by AP). Ironically the President was (is?) a smoker himself.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Today is DTV day, the analog TV will be turned off and the local TV stations will broadcast digital signals only. Go to DTV.gov for the government coupon Digital TV converter box and other information. Local PBS station (KETC) is running short of funds recently, partly due to the recession, corporate underwriting and viewer donations

Reading Time: 2 minutes I took some pictures using Nokia 5800 camera yesterday (June 11) evening. Note this is a 3 Mb camera, so the resolution is not great. Yesterday evening we had a thunder storm like weather, we had the sun and lots of clouds at the same time.

Reading Time: < 1 minute From: David Stern To: Referees in NBA playoff and finals Subject: new rule on elbow If Kobe elbows somebody, don’t call him foul. See YouTube video below. And a fan’s story here. Else (if ordinary guy like Anthony inadvertently elbows somebody like Williams), call him foul.

Reading Time: < 1 minute For some of the auto dealers in this country. I know this title is a bit misleading, but it’s no worse than those “attention getting” balloons flying outside of car dealerships 🙂

Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is their web site. Unfortunately the decriptions are in Chinese, and they require resume in Simplified Chinese. The positions are based in Beijing. Thanks to my wife who found their Ads at WSJ yesterday. It says apply at their web site: www.china-inv.cn . The application deadline is June 28. As name implies, most are