Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
Posted in Germany, finance, investment on Jul 29th, 2008
I watch ARD’s Börse report (equity market report) at around 19:55 almost everyday. Today a gentleman in the program said, in countries like Sweden and the Netherlands, 30+% citizens hold stocks. In Germany, only around 5% citizens are shareholders. The gentleman said this is not a good sign, the Abgeltungssteuer (capital gain tax) for long-term [...]
Posted in finance, investment on Jul 28th, 2008
Disclaimer: the main purpose of this note is to help myself distill and internalize the information from the investment books, mags and websites I read. If you feel it’s informative, I’d be very glad. But please do not take it as your investment guide. People have different personalities, what appears very right to me, might [...]
Posted in finance, investment on Jul 27th, 2008
Disclaimer: the main purpose of this note is to help myself distill and internalize the information from the investment books, mags and websites I read. If you feel it’s informative, I’d be very glad. But please do not take it as your investment guide. People have different personalities, what appears very right to me, might [...]
Posted in China on Jul 27th, 2008
I heard that Shanghai is going to build yet another Disneyland which would cost around 4 billion euros. And, an artificial lake which costs 50 million euros is already being built in Shanghai, seems the main purpose is to boost the price of real estates around the lake.
I don’t feel happy to hear these [...]
Posted in finance, investment on Jul 24th, 2008
Disclaimer: the main purpose of this note is to help myself distill and internalize the information from the investment books, mags and websites I read. If you feel it’s informative, I’d be very glad. But please do not take it as your investment guide. People have different personalities, what appears very right to me, might [...]
Posted in Debian, programming on Jul 23rd, 2008
Among many plugins of the desktop manager Compiz Fusion, “Tile” is not the flashiest but one of the most useful plugins. I’m one of the programmers who need to look up API documentations/Wikis or cookbook/example repositories from time to time. I have a 22′ wide screen, fire Tile’s “Vertical Tile” command, API documentation and [...]
Posted in finance, investment on Jul 22nd, 2008
A while ago I started to work as a software engineer for a company in Hannover. I spend about one hour per day on trains between Hannover and Hildesheim. My father sent me some cash for getting a new car. I got car magazines, did some homework and made a schedule with a car dealer. [...]
In the National Geographic German version issue July 2008, there is a story about China. I bought this issue and read the complete story. Very well written. The authors had lived in China for many years, what they described is quite fact-oriented. The critiques are quite to the point. The story was written with [...]
Posted in algorithm, computer science on Jul 18th, 2008
Knowledge-based Locomotive Planning for the Swedish Railway is the graduate thesis written by Dr. Volker Scholz in year 1998. Later he earned his Dr. title in computer science and worked in Max-Planck Institute in Saarbrücken.
Purposive without Foresight
Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
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