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They said it was coming in November, but no one seems to have it. “PC Magazine”:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335490,00.asp claims shipments started Tuesday November 25th. We’ll see 🙂 I’ve got my Canon EOS 350D and it has faithfully taken over 18,000 photos in the last three years (!!!), but now the lenses are ready for the 21 megapixel…

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My buddy John says hanging with me is like living with Neo in The Matrix. Oh my goodness, this crash looks like the next depression. Ok buy ever book about the Great Depression and read them in a week. Need to understand electricity trading. Buy all the books. Read over the weekend. Need to be…

This WordPress for the iPhone is so amazing. You can blog from your iPhone so now I can take hours to compose a long note. Or I can share the amazing things I see in ordinary life. While a 2mp camera is truly lousy. Remember the first Leicas were designed with 1 megapixel resolution in…

One confused friend once asked over and over why have a blog. Who is going to read it? Another dear friend said it like talking to me, isn’t it?. One colleague said it is like looking into Rich’s mind and it is *scary!?*. On this day after Thanksgiving Day, I think the answer is. Who…

My good friend, Richard told me a great story: If u can’t see light at the end of the tunnel. Remember there is a Buddhist exercise. Stand in a large totally dark room and start walking. U will learn that eventually u will take small steps and it doesn’t matter if u can’t see and…

A dear friend taught me that I’m not the only one who listens to all kinds of music and cares about it. I also learned that the lyrics are the poetry of the day and even more important than the melody sometimes. To this day, when I listen to a song, it puts me back…

OMG, there is actually somewhere where you can get food at 2AM in the morning! Let’s pretend we are in France 🙂CAFÉ PRESSE SEATTLE Café Presse is now open and serving South Capitol Hill in the Seattle University neighborhood. The second collaboration of Le Pichet owners Joanne Herron and Jim Drohman offers full coffee service…

Thank goodness, watching its stock price fall has been scary, but now this will prevent financial meltdown U.S. agrees to bail out Citigroup – MarketWatch The U.S. government agreed Sunday night to rescue Citigroup Inc. with a huge bailout plan that includes a $20 billion capital infusion, guarantees for up to $306 billion of Citi’s…

Crouching_Tiger,_Hidden_Dragon 卧虎藏龙 WòhÇ” Cánglóng is such a great movie. I’ve never studied the Chinese in it though until now. # Chow Yun-Fat or 周润发; Zhōu Rùnfā) plays Li Mu-bai (李慕白; Lǐ Mùbái) who has given up his sword and wants to avenge his master’s death by killing the Jade Fox # Michelle Yeoh ( 杨紫琼;…

My head hurts! Here are some basics if you want to learn how to trade “Australian”:http://www.d-cyphatrade.com.au/products/overview_of_the_australian_el electricity. (“pdf”:http://www.d-cyphatrade.com.au/products/overview_of_the_australian_el/overview_of_australian_electr_2.pdf) Some sites: * “SFE Initial Margin”:http://www.asx.com.au/professionals/clearing/operations/initial_margin_calculations.htm * “SFE Corporation Ltd”:http://www.asx.com.au/about/sfe/index.htm is the formal name of the Sydney Futures Exchange and merged with the Australian Stock Exchange 25 July 2006. A funny aside, it started in 1960 as…

Wow, skype has been changing their offerings again. Now they have an unlimited long distance plan to any of 36 countries for 8 euros (about $10) per month. I am also on Skype Pro which is their older plan. This lets you have for $24/month a skype in number which is a regular phone number…

Well, got to ride on the new Qantas Airbus 380. What an amazing plane. There aren’t many flying yet, Singapore Airlines has one, so does Dubai and Qantas runs a pair between LA and Melbourne and LA and Sydney for sure. Here are some photos Here is coach. See how high the ceilings are and…

Off to Melbourne and Victoria…have been there twice, but haven’t had much time to look around. Here are some sights: Melbourne: Scenic Views – TripAdvisor Melbourne Observation Deck on Level 55 of the iconic Rialto Towers. 525 Collins St, Melbourne ( Entry fee payable – from $8 per person). Best value for your money if…

Oops, somehow my photos of voting on election day didn’t quite make it. Here they are again. it was an amazing day November 4th. I love this photo at 645AM in the morning:

A dear friend said some of these photos were good, so I thought I’d share with everyone. I put the public photos that anyone can look at in my “Art Gallery”:https://richtong.org/art. Here is a shot right down Boston. It was taken at 8:30 and had remarkably few cars in Beacon Hill. The three layers of…

This seems to happen really often with the latest OS X update. I get lots of stuck mail. Just restart Mail.app doesn’t seem to help nor does hitting resend. I have tried deleting the mailbox folder and doesn’t help. macosxhints.com – A fix for messages stuck in Mail.app’s Outbox also tend to send messages while…

LA, Boston and NYC were all beautiful this week. LA had clear weather. I’ll post some photos. Found some great hotels as well, the “Nine Zero”:http://ninezero.com is in Beacon Hill hotel that is small and convenient. Better than the mega Marriott. Also in NYC, the “Empire”:http://empirehotelnyc.com is on the upper west side. Way funner neighborhood…

When I’m sad, I do listen to more music. Rihanna’s Take a Bow is my single favorite for runs, but “Billboard”:http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/specials/hot100/charts/top100-titles-00.shtml has their top 100 of all time. Thanks to YouTube, you can easily listen to all the hits. It is kind of cool the songs thye picked. I wouldn’t have thought so here are…

Alex showed me an amazing site “newsuem.org”:http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default_archive.asp?fpArchive=110508 has the front pages from everyday, but the one’s from November 5th are really terrific and worth keeping! It really brings a tear to my eye to see the headlines :=) !

A very good friend said to, my god, Rich, you’ve stopped blogging what is wrong? Well sometimes, when something has a name and you name, it then you realize you can’t do it anymore. In my case, tapping away at 2AM on various techie things is really all about running away from reality. So, rather…