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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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…