Markets Go Up, Markets Go Down

I believe that superior investment skill has more to do with temperament than with a high IQ. Successful long-term investors will inevitably look stupid in the short run. And they will have to endure severe rebukes from Wall Street while they wait alone.

Markets Go Up, Markets Go Down

It's true that Warren Buffett is investing wise by choosing good stock and hold them long term, pragmatically I am doing the same, by missing the chance to sell when I should.

One of my favorite stocks - China Life Insurance. less than two years it grew from $6 to $50. Only if you have a platform for buying H-shares or A-shares, you too will be stunned by the speed of its expansion.

The recent bear market brings another opportunity,  with a huge market of insurance, we may want to keep related stocks long term as well.

Silverlight 1.0 going out as an optional Windows update today

Microsoft® Silverlight™ is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications. Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows.

Silverlight 1.0 going out as an optional Windows update today | The Universal Desktop | ZDNet.com

I have tried out Silverlight just now and somehow it provides slide show experience similar to those in youtube. Online video are delivered via wmv streaming. The video player controls appear as aqua look and feel consistent with those as appear in Vista.

To me it is an advanced RIA framework targeting to achieve light weighted multimedia online along the back-end approach of Flex. It will take some time to dominate the market, with incumbent technologies like Flash, it all depends on the willingness of developers to make the switch.

Removing Blogger (Blogspot) Navigation Bar

To remove the navigation bar in former classic Blogger, I made use of the following css setting:

#b-navbar {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none
}

Since Blogger has upgraded the above method is no longer effective as the keyword b-navbar has been changed to navbar-iframe, so the correct CSS segment should be:

#navbar-iframe {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none
}

 
But note that the above CSS alone is only applicable on new version of Blogspot templates. In my case where I adopt the former classic template on new Blogspot, after applying the navbar-iframe segment, the bar is gone, but there is a margin (place holder) covering my header image. In this case, try applying the code below too:

#space-for-ie {
  position:absolute;
  bottom:0px;
}

I have searched through the entire web, most of the websites missed out the space-for-ie segment until I conducted trial and error many times to get rid of this margin. Hope this helps :)