This is one of those times when I can’t think of a good title for my post, and the result is just a conglomeration of incoherent ramblings, and I hate that. I am a title person, I think titles should mean something, but I guess that should not distract me from writing the real stuff. In any case, does anyone not believe in Roswell? Does anyone not believe in aliens? Well if you don’t, you are an idiot. This article here says that one of the pilots’ document is now released (after his death) that he has witnessed an alien aircraft and their bodies. Believe it at your own peril. Like I said, all conspiracy theories come from somewhere. Have you seen the move Shooter? Not at all a bad movie. Have you played Metal Gear Solid? Do you still believe 911 is not orchestrated?

The iphone is out. I wasn’t too excited about it, it does cost an arm and a leg, and it doesn’t even have sim cards. It does look nice though. Many people compare Apple products to BMW. I think there’s some truth in it. They look great and don’t always work, but people will buy them anyways. After all, looks are everything, right? This person here has taken it apart and you can read what’s inside the iphone. Congratulations, he had just broken the most expensive toy in history (well, other than that robotic doll thingie under your bed). Did you know the mayor of Philidelphia went to line up for the iphone at 11 am, and then a few hours later, affronted by a journalist which asked him why he was wasting his time instead of solving the city’s problem, read the article here. Citizens of Phili, I feel sorry for you, not for the 200+ murders you have anually, but the idiot you have as a mayor. First of all, do mayors not have secretaries who do their chores for them (+ other stuff I bet)? I don’t think Arnold had to line up for an iphone. And then, well, at 9 pm the iphone was available everywhere, with no line. Yes, you are an idiot as well if you bought one on Ebay for two thosand dollars.

Blackberry maker, Research in Motion (RIMM) went crazy over the last few days on earnings and split news (I do not own any, though I wish I had a machine that could turn back time). Many people were bearish on it because they thought Apple would defeat them with the iphone. I think I have said it many times, they are not even in the same market. Corporate environments will continue to use the blackberry, while the younger hip generations who owns ipods and such may look towards the iphone. They may have one or the other, or both. I like to draw the parallel between the Wii and PS3/Xbox 360, those who buy the wii are causal players, not hardcore gamers. And I personally do not think Sony/Microsoft is competing directly with Nintendo. People may own both a 360 and a Wii, but they are not likley going to own both a PS3 and an Xbox 360. That says the same about Palm and the Blackberry, versus the iphone.

I really don’t like to talk about stocks at that much, just like I don’t like to talk about work. I think its boring, but then who knows, some people think I talk about games too much on my blog, but I think games are interesting, games reflect the real society. Stocks, they are just people’s empty speculations of the future. But I do belive in investment, even gambling a little, when you are young, you got to take risk. That, or you’d be like my dad, and you’d have no more risk to take. Here’s an interesting article about how the number #8 influences the chinese stock market. Its true, chinese people can be very superstitious. And you know what, stock prices are moved by people, its somewhat like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Speaking of which, the Freaknomics blog is a very interesting place to visit (other than here, that is), if you haven’t already read the book, you should make that your first priority (do that before passing on your genes).

Some people think I have very good stock picks, but it isn’t always true. I don’t really recommend people to buy anything, I just recommend people to buy in general, if you lost money, it ain’t my fault. I’ve had good picks and bad picks but I just tend to talk about the better picks, but if you really need stock advice, you can continue reading. Otheriwse you can reread this 6 months later to see if I am right. I think alternative energy will lead the next bull market. They have been running up nonstop for months and I have invested in some, like I said before, I wish I had invested more, or I figured out how to quantum travel back in time. If you want to buy alternative energy stocks, I’d go with the biggest solar, those include FSLR, SPWR, TSL, STP, JASO. Some of they are in china, some in the US, walmart has recently gone solar and SPWR owns part of the contract, do your own research. WWAT.OB is a good one to own because they do everything, penny stocks are not good otherwise, except this one (I have a little from 50 cents). Some of these stocks had run over 300% in the last 6 months, well, either you believe solar will take over or you don’t, but you can always wait for a pull-back before entry. I think all the other industries are played out if you want mind-boggling returns. I am still in GOOG and AAPL, and I believe they have more room to run. Google will eventually take over the internet space. You don’t need anything else, don’t buy those small startups and search engines, nothing else except maybe Akamai (AKAM) who speeds up the internet, or Divx, who plays high quality video over the internet. Well of all the stocks I picked from before, Divx performed the worst, but I believe all bad news had been accounted for. Riverbed (rvbd) is a pretty good performer (reseach if you want to know what they do), and of course Amazon.com (amzn), which surprised me with their increase (again, I don’t own any). Eventually, I believe 10 years from now, Amazon and Ebay will be one entity, that takes over every shopping and auction stuff on the net. Korean auction house Gmarket (GMKT) is also a good choice. Amzn has more room to run whether you believe it or not, but I personally will rather put my money in Solar power (as long as oil stays expensive). I am pretty much an all-tech person, in the financial side I own mastercard (MA) which is an excellent stock, ICE which is a future exchange which I think may have potential, and the NYSE exchange platform (NYX) which keeps bottoming and bottoming, this was once Crammer’s stock pick of the year and he basically screwed everyone (Yes, even me, but I do believe this has been manipulated down enough and has bottomed, truly). He also told everyone that solar is played out and he has been wrong for 2 months now. Do you believe in Ted Turner or do you believe in Crammer? Or do you believe in me? Let’s see what happens in 6 months.