Month: March 2011
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Firefox 4 – AJAX JavaScript Execution
Upgraded to Firefox 4, it’s alright, may feel a bit faster (advertised placebo?). It looks a lot like Safari. I guess there is a convergence of best practices going on. Anyway, here is the point of this post: – Firefox 3: innerHTML will execute any JavaScript code inside it (normally loading via AJAX). Other browsers…
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Investing lessons from a market sell-off
As a beginner in stock investing, I’ve learned some basic lessons, hopefully not too painful to shun stocks all together. They sound very simple but are not easy for amateur investors to avoid. So you would need to be constantly reminded. In your portfolio, there will be stocks that are going up/down since you bought…
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Demand from a Natural Disaster
With the strong 8.9 quake just happened in Japan and living in California, I would have to think really hard about what happens before, during and after a natural disaster, more specific, a quake. Let’s imagine what people and businesses would have to deal with and who can benefit from the increased demand. I’ll be…