Feels like blogging is ice age technology

Google just reminded me that I have a blog. Blindly and with faith I migrated to this blog to my google account. I assume google bought blogspot a long time ago. I read some of my post. One blog stating that I would buy stock when DOW hit below 7000. I know i didn't buy any. I just do not know if DOW didn't hit 7000 or I chickened out.

fantasy on thin ice

A friend told me. "Single guys in their 30s are the most productive because they know how to manipulate." But, Guys in their 30s are looking for quality instead of quantity.

maintain a balance

A while ago, a person asked who am I. One description I gave is worth writing down.

"I do not like to compete with others, I like to compete against myself." You can tell from my hobbies, I am a golfer, I am a hiker. I have been an underdog through out my life. I take losses with genuine happiness for the winners. My winnings cause minimum pain for the losers. But the ability to create immense amount of pressure to the front runners who can not stand losing is something I enjoy ;-) and I do not want the table turned around on me.

So compete against myself, or exert pressure on others :D

A book

Some people are books with a lock. Unless you can open them, you won't get to read them. I am an open thick book that's challenging to read.

Dow 7500 ... 7000 ... not for the light hearted

Yesterday Dow broke 8000. Today it's at 7500. AC360's bald financial analyst will say something like "Anderson! This is unprecedented! 5 Trillion dollar wiped out in 2 hours .... Let me explain what happened!" I stopped watching him after hearing 4 - 5 times of him saying that in 2 weeks.

Mr Buffett's BRK-A is trading at $77000/share, down from 150,000/share within 1/2 year. When the Oracle of Omaha has just lost half of his wealth ... I think market is erratic. I am going to start buying some when the Dow0 hit below 7000.

It's going to be a very very cold winter, I want to go on a budget/backpacking traveling again, to somewhere warm.

a tech talk

I gave a talk today. Topic was about our software, the problem it's solving, the components it's build up from. Went well.

True to yourself

I am ever more convinced that one has to be true to oneself.

That might mean complete un-traditional approach to things, not winning favors with people you care, might be unethical, might be ridiculed, might upset others ... It should has a limit, somewhere before getting to "illegal". 

If you do not understand the actions or the thoughts of someone you care, but believe they are being true to themselves, I think the best things you can do for them and yourself are to be supportive and maintain respectable disagreement.