Archive for April, 2009
spring break train ride
Kevin had a spring break week early april. I took him to a train ride trip to portland thur through saturday. this is his first real train ride and he is excited (to be accurate, this is my first train ride in usa also, and i am excited too). the trip from seattle to portland is [...]
kevin’s swimming class
kevin has completed the level 1 swimming class and is now attending level 2 class. he is doing great. he is still not able to swim by himself but that day may come anytime. he has all the skills to do that but he has never swim by himself before so it may take a [...]
msft a happy ride today
microsoft’s earning report is not at all good for this quarter. down 6% revenu, net income of $2.98 billion was down 32%… but msft is up >10% today, a rare jump for a long time. i feel sometimes it is hard to interpret what’s going on on wallstreet. but i am long at msft, the [...]
Susan Boyle @ British Got Talent
It sounds like a disney sensation but it happens in real life. Susan boyle, the 47 years old lady rocked the judges and audiences at British got talent show and it was an “overnight sensation”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY this video clip has been viewed 41,335,790 times as of today, it is simply amazing. some take away from [...]
the new microsoft search portal kumo
microsoft has been very successful playing the catch up game previously, from office suite, visual studio development IDE, to winning the browser war with netscape, and up coming xbox game sectors, but this has not yet happened in the search portal. although microsoft spent tons of dollars on search, the performance is by far disappointing. [...]
张雨生-一天到晚游泳的鱼
gold of the desert kings training – lessons learned (3)
The fun game of desert kings gives us some great lessons what we can apply to our daily work and life: there are many factors in life that would try to take control of me. Try to be active and take good control of these enviromental factors and not let them control you: deadline competition [...]