If you want to understand what collateralized debt obligations is and how we got into this mess, here is a video for those of us who don’t have much financial engineering background. It is explained using Wine and Bottle.
Crisis explainer: Uncorking CDOs from Marketplace on Vimeo
I upgraded Ubuntu to 8.04 LTS on one of my laptops (it is a Dell). After the upgrade, the mouse just started acting like crazy and moved on its own like it has been controlled by a ghost. I Google and see if I can find any solution to this problem and there is not one that solved my problem. So I click on Preference and click on mouse to change the configuration of the accelaration and sensitivity settings by changing them to almost zero. Then the problem is solved.
The tainted baby formula in China to make us to rethink free trade. Free trade without proper safety and environment enforcement is going to be disaster. Food and drugs has import inspection program but it is not well fund and it simply can’t inspect all the product. In fact, so if there are issue in imported food, we will not find out before we consume it. We will find out after massive amount of people get sick.
Wiki Nazi is a term that I created for people who spent all of their time on editing wiki and think they own wiki. They are the people who think they have the authority to determine if an external link is spam or not and delete it even generally external links don’t do any good for SEO and it is related to the topic. When you don’t agree with them, they say you are rude and you try to spam. You know who they are. Call them Wiki Nazi.
I am using Godaddy sharing account running ruby on rails. The problem of running ruby on rails on Godaddy shared hosting account is that Godaddy is still running rails 1.1.6 and there are not many gems that Godaddy has it installed. So if you want to use twitter4r, you can’t really do it because Godaddy will not install it for you. So what I did to get it running is to do the following:
- unpack twitter4r in the vendor/plugins directory and create an init.rb file with one line
require 'twitter'. - But that is not enough, you will have to also unpack json_pure gem in the vendor/plugins and create an init.rb with one line
require 'json/pure'. The reason is that twitter4r depends on json but Godaddy doesn’t have json gem. - Finally, you need to make sure you config twitter4r to use proxy server because twitter4r needs to communicate with twitter through https. here is the code to config that:
Twitter::Client.configure do |conf| conf.proxy_host = 'proxy.shr.secureserver.net' conf.proxy_port = '3128' end
Looking at the Olympic medal count, it reflects the new world order. US is no longer the super power if sport is an indication. Even sports were used to be dominated by US such as tracks and boxing, US is no longer the powerhouse that it once was. Yes, we can say we still have the highest medal count but if you look closely. It is China that has the most gold modals (almost double of what US got so far). US is getting weaker and weaker. It is time for change. The country has gone wrong in so many way because of our government’s bad policy. It is time for a big and real change. Vote for change.