A little exercise for your wrist
Posted by wenzi on 11 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized(t)
If you spend most of your time on a computer, this will help. I have been away for a while and coming back to my old routine shows.
Great Chinese Conversation
Posted by wenzi on 24 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized(t)
This is a screel grab from “Flavor of Love”. The black girl in this picture lived in Taipei for five years. Her Dad is from HK, and she grew up in Cali. Her Chinese was not slangy at all. It seems like she only learned Chinese at the MTC.
This frame, she is a bit drunk and speaking in Chinese. The other girl is saying the only word she knew in Chinese which is “eggroll”.
I don’t know if she spoke Taiwanese.
The End-of-Line Story
Posted by wenzi on 23 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized(t)
The ASCII standard for text does not define a unique end-of-line (EOL)
character. Instead, ASCII defines two independent and orthogonal
movements of the print head: Carriage Return (CR) and Line Feed (LF).
(IBM’s EBCDIC did not make this mistake; it defined a single New Line
(NL) character.) Early operating system designers had to adopt some
“end-of-line” convention using CR and LF; some used LF, some used
CR, and some used a two-octet sequence: LF CR or CR LF.
During the early ARPAnet research days (~1970-1972), this end-of-line
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German Muslims Seething at Carnival Parade
Posted by wenzi on 21 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized(t)
The mullah on the right is labeled “the cliché,” and the one on the left, “the reality.”
I wanted to post this because not one wire service carried this image.
More on Penny Options
Posted by wenzi on 23 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized(t)
The CBOE put out a note on the Jan 18th concerning their Penny Pilot Program (PPP). That is what they call the program to test moving to penny options.
Anyway, they are going to roll out every friday for three weeks. The first week, just one WFMI. How they picked that one, I will never know. The third week, they will finally get to the QQQQ and INTC ( which really needs penny options )
I have no idea when they will roll it out for everything. bastids.
Friday, January 26, 2007
WFMI Whole Foods
Friday, February 2, 2007
GE General Electric
MSFT Microsoft Friday
Friday, February 9, 2007
IWM Ishares Russell 2000
QQQQ QQQQ
SMH SemiConductor Holders
AMD Advanced Micro Devices
INTC Intel
CAT Caterpiller
TXN Texas Instruments
FLEX Flextronics International
SUNW Sun Micro
A Agilent Tech, Inc.
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