Today [2]

[CB]

No one visit today thread.

Today I bought Lenovo smartphone S890. As soon as I got home, I flashed it with newer Jelly bean 4.1.2 ROM from Lewa with Russian version. Run pretty smooth with crispy screen. Did not have to root it as the ROM is already rooted. Comes with 5" 540x960 screen.
It helps me to put the PO of Galaxy S4 on hold.

 

[Kari]

Today begins the Ice-Hockey World Championships in Stockholm Sweden and Helsinki Finland (final rounds in Stockholm).

My native Finland starts today against Germany, the country where I live. No need to ask which one I cheer on!

Go Finland!

 

[A Guy]

Today (well, yesterday now) my Warriors defeated the Denver Nuggets to move on to the 2nd round of the NBA playoffs

The Sharks won game one of their first round playoffs with the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL playoffs.

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

@ Kevin

Nice phone! Good for you! :thumbup:

@ Kari & Bill

Good luck to both of you with your teams.

 

[CB]

@ Kevin

Nice phone! Good for you! :thumbup:

Love messing with android gadged..

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

Thank you guys!

Seems like a good forum indeed. I'm afraid I cannot answer my visitor messages quite yet, but thank you all!

It's really good to have you back with us... you'll get there .. with the message thing.

 

[Kari]

Less than two years ago August 2011 I bought 500 shares of a Finnish network security company Stonesoft. The total price i paid was €265, including the commission my bank took meaning the share price were somewhere just under €0.50. I did this because a friend of mine started to work for Stonesoft and he told me to trust him, the company "is rock solid, going to the moon" (his words then).

I have not sold those shares, nor have I bought more. In fact, I had pretty much forgotten those shares until this friend of mine from Stonesoft sent a text message yesterday asking how much did I make. As I did not understand the question, I tried to call him but the phone was busy during that 10 to 15 minutes I tried. I decided to call him later this week to ask about his curious message.

Late yesterday evening I finally read the news, McAfee will buy Stonesoft. McAfee's offer is €4.50 per share, which in my case means €2,250.

Today I am really angry to myself. All signs were there, close friends working in company telling it is a safe investment (no secrets revealed, only happy employees expressing their positive feelings about the employer), a company with remarkable reputation and no limits in future expansion plans. The share price stayed quite a long time under one Euro, each share is now worth €4.50. In my case the price McAfee will pay is about 9 times what I payed only 21 months ago when I bought the shares. But I was too careful, too pessimist.

Lesson learned. People say if it sounds too good it most probably is not very good. Sometimes these old sayings are wrong.

 

[A Guy]

If you had bought more, the CEO would have been caught embezzling funds

A Guy

 

[Kari]

I did not make any money but at least I now know a geek or two in Helsinki who can afford a night out when I go to Finland next time.

 

[HippsieGypsie]

Yes, there's always a bright side to things, Kari.

Your story reminds me of my oldest brother who started working for Ma Bell as a linesman back in the early 70's. He worked his way up to manage regional "garages" as they called them. In the 80's when they broke up the Bell system he went with AT&T. If I remember right, they used UNIX for the most part back then.

He heard of MS through some coworkers that decided to invest, but he felt DOS was too unstable and thought it wouldn't last long. He was correct on the instability part, for compared to other OSs back then it really was a crap product. The way I understand it if it wasn't for IBM MS wouldn't have been successful.

Anywho, he had some very rich coworkers who were able to retire far earlier than he did, although my brother did very well with AT&T and a good pension. Lol! To this day he continues to get antagonistic if anyone mentions MS to him. "I'll never understand how those two nerds ever made it with that crap!".

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

Stock market was a huge mess today with sell offs... Maybe tomorrow will be a better day for all.

 

[vrosa]

More protests all around the country, a justified bloody mess !

 

[A Guy]

Retirement slips farther away...

A Guy

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

I have a chart I want to add to the about later today..no time right now, on retirement, off to work in a few ..

 

[CB]

Today.
I saw people rushed to some gas stations as by midnight the authority has decided to reduce the subsidy of regular gasoline.

 

[CB]

No one hit this thread for three weeks?
Today I got Samsung Galaxy Mega GT-i9200 with screen size of 6.3 inches.
Pretty good to my old sight. Just a bit problem to slip it in to pocket if wearing blue jean, especially when riding my motorbike.

Kevin

 

[A Guy]

It's always tomorrow when I remember the Today thread

A Guy

 

[CB]

Hi Bill. Means no catching up huh.

 

[A Guy]

True, you are already caught up I just play word games and follow the news here on 8F. I can't follow the help threads. What time I have I spend following/helping at 7F. Hope life finds you well? A Guy

 

[CB]

That sounds fine. Bill.
It's been pretty good with me here. Wish the same as you there.
I barely have any spare time though I have SF & EF apps on androids.

See my post earlier about My new Galaxy. A minute after posting it slipped off my grab. Fell down to my tool box..! Now it is full of scratch. My oh my... just bought it last week for U$560.

Kevin.