{"id":18668,"date":"2013-03-20T09:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T13:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=18668"},"modified":"2013-03-20T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T13:10:22","slug":"kissing-frogs-with-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=18668","title":{"rendered":"Kissing frogs, with optimism."},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s been gruesome in the last few days. But then, I assure, myself, stock prices don’t go up in a nice steady climb. And it’s often better to play tennis (or whatever) than flagellating yourself by watching your stocks decline by the minute.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After all, we’re up over 10% already this year (at least the Dow is) and I should be grateful.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Our U.S. economy and its housing segment is definitely coming back which suggests that Lennar (P\/E = 13.3) and Toll Brothers (P\/E = 11.9) have appeal.
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Deutsche Bank spends a day with Qualcomm. <\/strong>Their new price target (also called PT in Wall Street gibberish) is $78 — about 21% higher than where it is now. Their report is here.<\/strong><\/a> The stock has done awfully, as of late. I don’t know why. But I remain optimistic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Big comparative testdrive on SSDs in the latest PC World.<\/strong><\/span> Conclusions:<\/p>\n

1. An SSD (solid state drive) is the easiest, fastest and cheapest way to speed up your present laptop \/ notebook.<\/p>\n

2. Their fastest SSD is the Samsung 840 Pro. It costs $240 at Newegg. click here.<\/strong><\/a> I love Samsung SSDs.<\/p>\n

When buying an SSD,<\/p>\n

+ Make certain the physical size is right. Newer laptops need smaller SSDs.<\/p>\n

+ The capacity is right. I like increments like 64, 128, 256. But there are weird sizes, like 120 and 240.\u00a0 They make cloning difficult. For cloning you need the exact size.<\/p>\n

Be careful traveling.<\/strong><\/span> A friend is in Nice, France on a bike trip. She left her hotel room in the morning and returned in the evening to find her cash, her passport and her medicines all stolen. She had stupidly not put them in the hotel’s supplied safe.<\/p>\n

Favorite recent New Yorker cartoons.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nHarry Newton who has done a lot of rejecting in the last few days. You got to kiss a lot of frogs in this business before you finally find one prince. These days there are a lot of frogs.<\/p>\n

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