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Virtual Stock Market Investment - very fun

Recently i am very excited in stock market investment, however i do not have that "extra" money to play with shares, therefore i found an alternative way to involve into it by playing investment game via a website called http://www.virtualstockexchange.com/Game/Homepage.aspx that stimulate the US stock market investment based on real time stock market data. it is fun and I believe i could learn a lot in this game. Here are the websites that i feel pretty good in presenting stock market real time data. Check it out at http://www3.marketwatch.com/ for all you wanted to know in one place whereas http://finance.google.com/finance will get you to see the best summary of the overall picture of why the stocks went up and down over time provided with various sources of news. Additionally http://today.reuters.com/investing/MarketsHome.aspx this website is very informative about evaluating a firm business.

Chinese New Year 2007! BioU6 reunion

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Dear bioU 6 friends, here are the picture taken during our Chinese New Year 2007 reunion day, at chor 3. We had been to Xinn Yinn and Wai Fung house to have wonderful time chatting, playing poker games and collecting angpows. :) More pictures? Please follow this link to download http://www.artifician.com/pictures/friends/biou6/new%20year%202007/

How to get my motherboard serial number using C#?

Sometimes we might want to identity the unique user for some purposes by knowing the machine identity they are using. Software licensing for instance, we could use his machine processor Id or motherboard id to uniquely identify them. So here are the tricks: using System.Management; //Get motherboard's serial number ManagementObjectCollection mbsList = null; ManagementObjectSearcher mbs = new ManagementObjectSearcher ("Select * From Win32_ BaseBoard "); mbsList = mbs .Get(); foreach ( ManagementObject mo in mbsList ) { textBox 1.Text = mo[" SerialNumber "]. ToString (); } //Get Processor's Identity ManagementObjectCollection mbsList = null; ManagementObjectSearcher mbs = new ManagementObjectSearcher ("Select * From Win32_processor"); mbsList = mbs .Get(); foreach ( ManagementObject mo in mbsList ) { textBox 1.Text = mo[" ProcessorID "]. ToString (); } Warning, although these are the methods to get the id, I feel that using t