No ideas on investing today. Spent yesterday morning with friends at New York’s Museum of Natural History — really stunning place. More on my visit tomorrow. Last night, I did a charity dinner for Linc. See below.
Fidelity pulled a disgusting trick on me on this morning. They no longer will work with the 9.6 version of Fidelity Active Trader Pro I’ve been using for years. They now insist I use their new 10.1 version which I had tried and thoroughly dislike. These guys are worse than Microsoft. At least Windows XP still works. Fidelity will give you some free trades if you really hate 10.1 which I do, but now may be forced to use. They still don’t allow me to direct my buys and sells to IEX. Maybe it’s time to switch to Interactive Brokers, which does?I bet Fidelity gets paid by the high frequency traders for their order flow. Another reason to switch to Interactive Brokers. Sadly, I’ve never found Interactive Brokers easy to use. Maybe I’ll learn?
Lots of maybes this morning.
Neat iPhone tricks:
+ Erased your brilliance by accident? Unerase. Shake the iPhone. A Godsend.
+ Web image too small? Tap the image once. Bingo it gets bigger, fills the screen. Tap once again to go back.
+ Driving? Worried about the cops? Waze is your application. Owned by Google. But much better for driving than Google Maps.
+ Driving? Want to get your laptop on the Internet? Personal Hotspot is your answer. Go to Settings, turn on Personal Hotspot.
+ Need more battery power? Get the Mophie Juice Pack Plus. $120. Fits the iPhone perfectly. Makes it a little bigger But you get more than double your battery life. Especially useful if you’re using Personal Hotspot, which really sucks up power.
Buy one on Mophie’s website, not Amazon’s web site. There are too many junky knockoffs. For the real thing, click here. You can also get a Mophie with extra memory for your iPhone. I haven’t tested that version. Nor do I need the extra memory. I bought a red Mophie. Red will make my iPhone easier to find.
Last night at Linc.
This is me with Alexandra Cuello, 6.
Linc is a great charity devoted to helping New York City’s poor kids read.
The stats show 77% of children from poor families can’t read well by the end of third grade (8-years old). That’s when the schools effectively stop teaching reading. Kids without decent reading skills are doomed in the workplace. Linc gets at the kids young. It teaches their parents to read to, and with them. Alexandra memorized and beautifully read this poem to 400 important people at last night’s dinner:
Open A Book
by Jane Baskwill
Open a book
And you will find people and places of every kind
Open a book
And you can be
Anything you want to be
Open a book
And you can share
Wondrous worlds you find in there
Open a book
And I will too
You read to me
And I’ll read to you.
You can give money to Literacy Inc. (also called Linc) here. Susan and I did.
Ain’t marketing wonderful? A.K.A. making lemonade out of lemons. Read the sign.
I’m being modest. I’m not running another picture of myself. I’m going to Boston to visit daughter Claire today. Yipee.
What do you mean no picture of you…isn’t that you standing about 3rd row center?