The motel that I slept last night is Meadow Inn. The condition is very lousy. It is no way near the quality of the Quality Inn in Hollywood beach city on I95. The price is $100 night plus tax for a double beds room. The Comfort Inn at Orlando is a little better but it [...]
September 27, 2008 Miami
Pollo Tropical is the place where we ate our lunch today. There are so many chickens in this Pollo specialty franchise. Is this the same franchise as the Pollo Loco in California?
The Miami small strip mall is no different from those of Vietnamese and Chinese. They are too many unruly drivers in the parking lots. [...]
September 25, 2008. Tampa and Miami
Today’s visit to Tampa and Clear Water was not that exciting at all. The water for one thing had changed from “clear water” to bit muddy and not longer in light blue or light green. Another thing is that there are more hotels than before.
The public beach is not accessible as before along the [...]
September 25, 2008. Tampa and Clear Water
Today’s visit to Tampa and Clear Water was not that exciting at all. The water for one thing had changed from “clear water” to bit muddy and not longer in light blue or light green. Another thing is that there are more hotels than before.
The public beach is not accessible as before along the [...]
September 24, 2008. Orlando
What a new scene on the downtown of Orlando. It is getting more real estate development since the last time I visited this city.
There is not much expansion as far as Disney World is concerned. There are usually more European visitors around as before. This is truthfully an international city in the sense that it [...]
September 24, 2008. Orlando
What a new scene on the downtown of Orlando. It is getting more real estate development since the last time I visited this city.
There is not much expansion as far as Disney World is concerned. There are usually more European visitors around as before. This is truthfully an international city in the sense that it [...]
September 23, 2008. Bailing out is still unfolding
Spiegel online reports that Angela Merkel blames the Bush lack of oversight that leads to the current crisis that also drags down the financial condition of Germany.
One professor on NPR even complained that the buying out the stressed stock of banks in low price is not the right way to help the economy. This [...]
September 23, 2008. Lost of confidence again?
Today stock market is in a rout. Is it a sign of losing confidence of the private investors or capitals?
Well today is another bad day for the US capital market. Charles Rose has two writers on to discuss this tonight. Alan Blind and Steve Pearlstein.
They have very interesting view. Alan Blinder is [...]
September 22, 2008. World History and econ development
Daniel Schacter’s “Seven sin of Memory” is a very interesting book. It remind me of the all the old book about brain and neurology I have read before.
It is all about medical case study of brain disorder patients in the past all over the world.
All the Savants, the brain injured soldiers, workers, etc. They are [...]
September 20, 2008. Predator state no more?
I still found very little comment on the book “Predatory state” by James K Galbraith on the web.
I found so many paragraphs that I like from the book. However, one thing I find the uninitiated readers may not be able to follow. It is the generality of his statement in the book. They are [...]
September 19, 2008. Real counter punch?
The chapter on standard is a chapter on touting the benefit of regulation. This chapter also debunks the myth that free trade with no regulation is the root of the plight of US workers.
This is not the case according to James Galbraith. The root cause of worker low and stagnant wage problem is the [...]
September 17, 2008. Predator State?
“The Predatory State” is very interesting a book to read. I have many notes on this book where are they now? The view of this author—James K. Galbraith, is even more radical and outside the box than majority of the book on society and economy of the current decade.
I thought Robert Kuttner’s book is [...]
September 16, 2008. Armageddon on Wall Street?
Armageddon on Wall Street?
So Merrill Lynch and Lehman brothers are going down. Bank of America picks up Merill Lynch but no one like to bail out Lehman brothers. Why? There must be a ton of WMD in Lehman brothers that is the reason no one like to take over the company.
This is another case [...]
September 15, 2008. Kluge and reality
I was reading the “Excel 2007 Missing Manual” last Friday and found something interesting and not available in Lotus 123 before. It was the filtering option. This is presented as a drop down list in the Data file/data tool/… These kind of functions actually can be done with function Vlooks and Hlooks plus a [...]
September 14, 2008. Latin American and Chinese trade relation.
I was reading “The Second World” book review on World Journal today. This is a quite revelation as far as the China and South America relationship.
I have found the reason behind the explosive growth for the Fidelity based Emerging Countries growth fund. I was wondering for a while why they growth even faster than [...]
September 14, 2008. Samba and printer on WinXP setup
This is a description of a test of saving in home\samba
Well it was opened ok even on the Compaq side. I created this file with the super user privilege on the Kan_Ubuntu side with gedit tool. This home/samba directory is not accessible from the regular user privilege. I used kanyungx/ninphuixx and couldn’t get the file [...]
September 13, 2008. A pain in the neck
I got into the attempt to install the right version of Nvidia package. However, I received the “dpkg –configure -a” request many times because of the installation process failure. I then checked the /system/admin/hardware-driver/ item and the driver is not enable, then the last time after I tried to installed the Nvidia package from the [...]
September 12, 2008. Ike is coming
Houston is evacuating some area with a specific zip codes. Charlotte border area is having a fit with speculation of Gasoline price hike. It is also because of the incoming hurricane Ike.
Today, the function manager announce an incentive program to stimulate the production output. The idea is exactly similar to the idea I have hatched [...]
September 11, 2008. More doom and gloom?
The guest speaker on the Robin Young show “Here and Now” talks about the 911 ompensation according to one’s paycheck is problematic. One should not value one live above the other. Live is live and it is invaluable. It has been 8 years since it happened.
This is how it should be done and it [...]
September 10, 2008. Musing on nothing?
How do I make the software more responsive to the keyboard?
John Doe 2 is a form of “misattribution”. Crytomnesia is the other name of it. The other case is the MR patient claims to be familiar to all strangers as some one famous (it is caused by MS disorder in the patient). A student fall [...]
September 08, 2008. VISTA—a pain in the neck.
Notes on printing with the netprinter on Compaq PC.
(8-29-2008) Thursday before the labor day holiday with PM at Cabarrus.
I had the network printer set up yesterday but it failed to print from the Toshiba laptop. I almost forgot how I did it.
I have to enable to VISTA to search for network [...]
September 06, 2008. Market failure
Steve Perstein of Washington Post is really having some interest view of the Dot.com bubble and housing meltdown. The subprime disaster could be viewed from the same perspective. This is the perspective of the market failure. This is nothing new. However, mainstream media never dwell on these market failure in this context.
Government failure is [...]
September 05, 2008. Politic a la USA style
The air way is saturated with all the Campaign rhetoric of the 2008 presidential race.
There are nothing more boring than this kind of show. They are all political shows for the initiative and the political pundits.
Voters get nothing out of these BSs at all. The power of the examples than the example of [...]
September 02, 2008. Ubuntu 8.0.4.
I had spend all day trying to get the Dual monitor support to run within Ubuntu. Google results were not very helpful to begin with. Then I tried different kind of video cards setting and still failed to work.
I tried then using different phrase after reading in details various xorg.conf file in the [...]
September 01, 2008. Ubuntu setup
Daniel Schacter’s “Seven sin of Memory” is a very interesting book. It reminds me of the all the old book about brain and neurology I have read before.
It is all about medical case study of brain disorder patients in the past all over the world.
All the Savants, the brain injured soldiers, workers, etc. They are [...]
