Blog of ZAY
The past week is definitely one of the most turbulent times (if not the most) in the financial world since September 11, 2001. With Lehman lawyers rushed to file for bankruptcy and Merill Lynch acquired by Bank of America, as well as the possible failure of AIG, people can not stop wondering what is going …
First, it was the Legend of 1900, then it was 27 Dresses… It may be simply coincidence, or it could be because of the fact that I am only befriended with a particular group of people. But I guess you can see how shocked I was when two different people recommended me to watch two …
This is the third time in my less-than-a-year experience dealing with Servage.net as my host. First time it was disk failure, second time was unknown, and this time, according to the customer service representative: And that was more than 2 hours ago…. Ironically, I just saw this on Servage.net: So I guess it is either …
And I have to say, the most powerful entity in this universe is nothing else but women. Men could be fearless in front of death, men could be fearless in front of being beaten, but one thing that almost every single man is afraid of, is losing the woman in his heart. This special woman …
A friend of mine just bought a refurbished Thinkpad X41, which I am trying it out as we speak. The first impression I have on the unit is that it is really tiny with the 12 inch screen. However, as what my friend has already told me, the laptop is relatively slow and the boot …
At the beginning of every single term, one thing that I will definitely do is to make a trip to the office of the campus newspaper and ask for a refund. Not that I am short of the 3.50 dollars, and not that I think it is nice to chat with the cold-faced person who …
Probably the biggest news in the IT industry is the recent takeover proposal of Microsoft to Yahoo!. Yahoo!, not surprisingly, rejected the offer from Microsoft on Monday, and it seems that they have engaged in active discussions with News Group to prevent a hostile takeover from Microsoft. It actually reminded me of a Chinese movie …
Recently, I’ve been following very closely with the case of Societe Generale and now-infamous trader Jerome Kerviel, who is been blamed for causing close to 5 billion Euros of loss as a result of trading on futures contact. I was amazed, honestly, by the fact that he was able to, single-handedly (although this is being …
OMG, this is probably the most expensive PC that I’ve ever seen: GIGABYTE 3D Mercury GZ-FW1CA-AJS Silver Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case – Retail – $399 Custom Case Painting by Gary Berg – $1500 Asus P5N-T Deluxe Motherboard – NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI, Socket 775, ATX, Audio, PCI Express 2.0, Gigabit LAN, S/PDIF, USB …
The sweetiest thing in this world today (to me at least), is to look at the stock for Ambac Financial Group Inc: Did you see how much it went up today? I am not kidding, it is close to 72% in one day!!!! And I just said it would go up today. MBI did a …