Reading Time: 2 minutes Did more “Heelys” search on eBay since now I am Heelys stock holder. (12Dec06) There are 1628 results using keyword “Heelys”. They include the shoes, safety gears (helmet, wrist, elbow, knee pads), and accessories (caps, T-shirt). There are both new and old items (for the shoes). It seems used ones are also sold well if they are
Reading Time: < 1 minute I did a little “Heelys” search on couple web 2.0 sites. First the flickr, it has 70 pictures; interestly, I searched “Crocs shoes” and it has about 670 photos. I noticed Crocs are everywhere in the stores and malls these days. (Update 09Feb07) Flickr has 119 pictures as of today. MySpace, the popular teen blogging
Reading Time: < 1 minute According to Wikipedia, here are some of the controversy of Heelys: As of September 2005, some (US) schools can have Heelys. These shoes are usually allowed but the removable wheels cannot be in place. With the wheels removed, the shoes function just like any other pair of shoes. Some businesses; especially malls, discount retailers, warehouse
Reading Time: < 1 minute I went to the West County Mall to check out Heelys: at the Nordstorm and Dick’s Sporting goods; I happened to see a grandma is buying a pair of Heelys for her grandson. Note Nordstorm is considered as high end department store. Dick’s Sportings also carries Heelys but I did not see anyone trying them.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Google is aggressively promoting its online payment service Google Checkout lately. It’s offering $20 off $50 purchase at online store buy com. The aim is very obvious, eBay’s Paypal. To counter Google’s attack, Paypal is offering free shipping with a number of partners including Dell. Who will be the winner of this war? I don’t know. But one thing I know for sure
Reading Time: < 1 minute Heelys is the shoe can be used both for walk and skate, using the retractable wheel under the heel. It is most widely worn by kids and teenagers aged from 6 to 14, and from what I see from Zappos (the online shoe store), kids and parents are crazy about this. Now the company is filing for IPO,
Reading Time: < 1 minute Diwali is the most important festival in India. I went to the Indian students Diwali party here at Washington Univ, Olin school of business. This is the second time I went to the Diwali: the first one was 7 years ago (1999) when I was in graduate school at Rolla. I like the enthusiasm Indian students
Reading Time: < 1 minute Saw this article from my friend Liu Shuhui’s blog. I think it’s kind of interesting because I thought my green card situation is very much like that. Not to mention the stocks, let’s don’t go there today 🙂 ====================== 譬如公车平常是十五分钟一班，当你花在等待的时间超过十分钟后，你会开始烦躁不安，但通常你会继续等下去，等到超过十五分钟公车还不来时，你除了咒骂外，也开始感到‘后悔’——你应该在十五分钟前就走路或坐计程车去的。 但通常你还会继续等下去，因为你已‘投资了那么多的时间’，不甘心现在改坐计程车，结果就越陷越深，无法自拔，直到公车姗姗来迟，你心理的困境才获得解脱。 但人生有很多‘目标’，并不像公车那样‘必定会来临’，而且投资的也不是你‘个人的时间’而已。如何避免蹈入陷阱在人生道上，如何避兔蹈入这类‘陷阱’，也是一门不小的学问，心理学家鲁宾(J.E.Rubin)的建议是： 1.确立你投入的极限及预先的约定：譬如投资多少钱或多少时间？ 2.极限一经确立，就要坚持到底：譬如邀约异性，自我约定‘一次拒绝就放弃’，不可改为‘五次里面有三次拒绝才放弃。’ 3.自己打定主意，不必看别人：事实证明，两个陌生人在一起等公车，‘脱身’的机会就大为减少，因为‘别人也在等！’ 4.提醒自己继续投入的代价。 ==================
Reading Time: 2 minutes When I was taking my first C++ class at graduate school, the professor has a favorite word “you guys should write a program that works, because if it does not work, you are writing a novel not a program”. Although I did wrote “novels” in one of his program assignments, I remembered his words since
Reading Time: < 1 minute Thought this is funny. The RedHat webmaster must be busy. After Oracle announced the RedHat linux support, now Microsoft joined the party – it announced the partnership with RedHat’s rival, Novell’s SUSE linux. So this is what I saw from RedHat’s web page: “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight
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