Pay by phone system for Vancouver Parking

Pay by phone system that can be used in Vancouver.  I don’t think this works with private parking lot though, so be careful.

http://vancouver.ca/engsvcs/parking/paybyphone.htm

http://www.verrus.com/verrus/index.aspx

 

Some Vancouver’s parking ticket rules and news:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/11/04/bc-vancouver-parking-tickets-adjudicators.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2010/01/18/bc-paybyphoneglitch.html

 

And an extra link: Toronto parking ticket cancellation guide:

http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2010/cc/bgrd/backgroundfile-31301.pdf

A free Tax reporting software in Canada

I've been using studio tax from http://www.studiotax.com/ to report Canadian tax annually for 3 years now. It works and pretty simple to use from my point of view. Certainly it still have room to improve, such as the following:
1. adding right click menu for easier access
2. remember my investment lost in the past year and carry it over year by year when importing
3. having investment data input wizard.
4. Easier inputing for income in foreign country

I hope they can see this blog some day and make improvement. As I still love to use their software.

How to get your kindle 3 to show Chinese characters natively Kindle3显示中文乱码问题

For simplified Chinese, type the following:
1. ;debugOn
2. ~changeLocale zh-CN
restart kindle (menu-setting, menu-restart)
3. ;debugOff

For Traditional chinese, type the following:
1. ;debugOn
2. ~changeLocale zh-TW
restart kindle (menu-setting, menu-restart)
3. ;debugOff

I finally did a wrong call trying to time the market. Oh, well

 

For the last few days, I tried to time the market by trading ETF almost daily.  And Finally I made a mistake on 03/02/2011… :(  And that’s a mistake I can prevent if I follow my own trend, oh, well…

This is what I did:

 

	Assume Cash before	Action	Symbol	Name	vol	unit price	trading cost	Plus/Minus	Assume Cash after
22-Feb	6000	buy	TYP	DIREXION DLY TECH BEAR 3X	300	19.688	29	-5935.55	64.45
24-Feb	64.45	sell	TYP	DIREXION DLY TECH BEAR 3X	300	20.62	29	6157.03	6221.48
24-Feb	6221.48	buy	TYH	DIREXION DLY TECH BULL 3X	100	50.74	29	-5103	1118.48
25-Feb	1118.48	sell	TYH	DIREXION DLY TECH BEAR 3X	100	52.811	29	5252.04	6370.52
28-Feb	6370.52	buy	TYP	DIREXION DLY TECH BEAR 3X	300	19.909	29	-6001.7	368.82
1-Mar	368.82	sell	TYP	DIREXION DLY TECH BEAR 3X	300	20.84	29	6223.02	6591.84
2-Mar	6591.84	buy	EDZ	DIREXION E/M BEAR 3X-NEW	300	21.789	29	-6565.7	26.14

<-- bad!!! Market price on 3/4 8:30am: 20.67, lost close to 400 dollars here