January 20, 2009 - Historical Day for Barack Obama, and Jerry

Mark this day on the calendar, January 20, 2009

• Barack Obama 2009 Presidential Inauguration, with record coverage, record crowd, and a sense of hope for a brighter future. Sounds a bit like 馬英九 in March 2008 for Taiwan. I didn't watch it online at work though, but PVR'ed it at home, and also sees it on BitTorrent

• Bank of Canada lowers overnight rate target by 1/2 percentage point to 1 per cent, saving me a few thounsands on the mortgage especially considering all banks follow suit with 0.50% drop in bank's prime rate

• Jerry Hung, myself, successfully passed my 3 months probation at the new job, and now I am a bit safer and stuck here :)

• This is not really historical in anyway, but I got myself a MSI Wind U100 netbook - MSI Wind 10" Mini Laptop (1.6 GHz Intel Atom Processor, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, XP Home, 3 Cell Battery) Black. Let's see what the fuzz is all about