shhh I'm leaving let's make SOME NOISE!

the letter was post on NYTIMES titled "Dear A.I.G., I Quit!" I think there is some major political jabbing behind all the media press. In one corner Uncle Sam... at the other CE* of AIG and there are minor characters of AIG have their own corner... maybe Tax payer doted the rest of the ring? I don't know if there is any win-win situation here. If we were to keep this fight up alot of people will get "hurt".

I'm not saying getting pay $1 and work 10, 12, 14 hours per day and got bonus (wait, do they really call this bonus if someone is paid by performance?) of $742,006.40 (after tax). I know I can not do Mr. DeSantis's job (nor can I run 40 y.d in 4.3 and catch ball to save my life) so I can't say much about the "bonus" or how it's structure...etc.. Businessweek has an interesting article "The Mindset of an AIG executive", it's a fun read. How do we know what is the mindset of anyone in this crazy market, Mr. DeSantis feels betrayed by his company. and the tax payer feels... perhaps the management @ AIG should have "manage" situation a little better.

One final thing... I don't think publicly posting the letter is such a good idea... burning bridge is never a good thing.

Here is his boss's interview titled "Liddy on AIG's Long Road Ahead" this gives a different prospective.

Quicken did you see my Moneydance

Are you a Quicken 2006 owner? I received the follow email...

Dear Valued Quicken Customer,

According to our records, you may be using Quicken^® Premier 2006. As of April 30, 2009, Online Services and live technical support for Quicken 2006 will no longer be available.¹ To maintain uninterrupted service, upgrade to Quicken 2009.

Looks like end of April is the last day you can download online transaction! Once again Quicken is forcing more $$ from me. Q2009 just seem to have too much junks packaged together... I enjoy using but can't understand why I have to buy a whole new upgrade. Q2009 is like Q2006.8 with all the patches + new custom front page (btw, it's not the first time they redone the front page!) .

Alternative! MS Money? naaa I did found Money dance this run on Mac, Linux or Windows. This software has free trial of 100 transactions which I'll test it out. But in the mean time I'll have to upgrade to 2009, which buy me another 3 years!

What is the catch? Network marketing

This is 2nd part regard to Market America (MA) "Drink that purple thing! (aka OPC 3)"

After trying to learn more about this Market America from the wife... it didn't lead me anywhere... but I did hear some buzzword which I wrote it down... UnFranchise, residual income, BV (business volume), IBV, business center...

I decided to googling the buzzwords and found my own answer. Here are the "numbers" I got from online search (I cross check with the credit card bills).

Annual membership Fee $129.95 the first year and then $99.95 each year thereafter. This option allows you to leverage your time and participate in the Management Performance Compensation Plan (MPCP) and earn residual income commission by building 2 teams of business partners. **uhm, why does this seem to form a shape also known as MLM**

web portal $20 monthly, so you can have web site which has ULR marketamerica.com/[your store alias here] This is where you can as you customer to shop and earn IBV. I guess $20 is okay, consider it's a pre-made template that you can't customize and MA can place their own ads.

50 BV monthly of personal volume - "this equates to about $60 - $70 depending upon the items you are using". "Remember, each product has its own BV value assigned to it, but on average BV is 80% of $Cost. For example, $100 = 80BV." You do the math! This 50 BV is not for "you" it's pass to the person above you and "bubbles up". btw, this also encourage you to recruit others, more on this on later blog.


Misc. local seminar/ training (optional) $15-30 per month. I was told online training doesn't cost anything but if it's on location there is usually a small fee to rent spaces.


okay that was fun! So now I see the "initial" cost, what is the income potential? I think I'll title my next blog "show me the money!" to look into this burning issue.

* if I miss anything just post your correction, please don't spam my inbox.

Netbeans 6.5 some what documented setting up plink SVN+SSH on Windows

This is for Window's version of Netbean 6.5 it's needed for SVN+SSH

instruction is here http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqSubversionSSH it's missing a minor detail of setting up environment variable in windows. Here is what I did,

first download PuTTY's plink from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

if you are lazy like myself you'll want to setup enviroment variable for plink

• Open System Properties (by right click ‘My Computer’ - ‘Properties or by press button ‘windows’ + ‘break’)
• Select tab Advanced & click button ‘Environment Variables’
• You can edit System Variable : ‘path’
• Add path to your PuTTY directory. (don’t delete other path, just add with ‘;’ as separator)
• OK
• You can check whether you have correctly add PuTTY’s path by running console (cmd) and run plink.exe without fullpath.

rest of the steps you can just follow the netbean's wiki

very interesting ....NB 61supports Websphere

WebSphere 6.0 & 6.1

I didn't have time to try this yet, but http://wiki.netbeans.org/NB61NewAndNoteWorthy list a few interesting note worthy. I hope they improve the start up speed...

hack if NB keeps this up I can "saved" some RAD7 $$ and actually officially test this IDE instead of used it at home.

great job guys!

Netbean6 connect to my database

This is a new feature added to NB6. Some of developer will have a few application running while working with database and IDE. Can this feature replace the basic SQL query tool?

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/ide/mysql.html will give you a pretty good start and feel for this feature. Out of box I was able query data and even copy the row of data! But... but you can't edit the cell if you want to change say "Y" to a "N"... I know I can write query for that, but I am lazy ;)

Another thing I notice (with about 1 hours using this feature) it DISCONNECT from database!!!! Is there anyway to keep the connection alive? There gotta be an option to do this I keep on getting the error (see screen shot below) ... I had to first disconnect than connect again.


instead of keep on blogging I will try to see if I can found a solution to this problem and post the solution.

gotta run...

NB6 lots of features but can it perform? --testing in progress

My background on my road to Netbean6.

@ my day job I am using RAD7 like many developers this the "official" tool.
@ home/side job I had been using Eclipse 3.2 with Instantiations's WindowBuilderPro it's pretty powerful GUI builder.... but I have been slowly moving to Netbeans the past year (since NB5). Since some of the projects are Swing based... if you have not create GUI from Netbeans you can't use NB's Matisse (this is due to NB's GUI uses some XML *.form to store extra information). But if you have decoupled the GUI from the business and backend it's pretty easy to draw with new NB (unless you have a screen with 10 different tables with button covers all extra spaces, than good luck).

Here the link to new Netbean 6 features, there are too many for me to list... some don't really care for.

With that say let's install this bad boy!
First if you download the full pack you can select the packs you need... 470 MB!!


--to be continue....