Archive for 'thoughts' Category
rain-less in seattle
these days the weather in seattle is pretty dry, there is no rain for a few weeks now. summer in seattle is beautiful, my only complain is there is no rain. it might sound surprising to people who know a little bit about seattle, it is viewed as a rainy city, and it was often [...]
seattle world expo
I am not sure how many people know seattle hosted world expo before, almost 50 years before in 1962. the space needle was built for that event and it has ever since being an icon for seattle, a land mark that made seattleness proud. “Ten million people did come. Seattle’s Century 21 Exposition was a [...]
有感：被摊派原始股升值600倍 全村失地农民变身成富翁
this is a real story, residents in a villege in china find themselves millions overnight when they found out the stocks they were forced to buy a few years ago soured 600 times! they are confused, besides felt happy this is like a fairy tale that they never imagined before. many never saw so much [...]
time cost and contents
these are the three factors that affects a project: a product with fast delivery and minimum cost
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. [...]
a quote: progress is made…
watching david letterman show tonight
man, i have not watched full david letterman show for sometime and i watched his show in full today and what an entertaining show today. for the entire show he was joking around john mccain’s sudden cancellation of the appearance on david letterman show. i saw the news right before the show and saying mccain [...]
诚信为本
no one is perfect, everyone made mistakes or have their past, but one needs to be honest on his/her past/mistakes