I am no twitter fan but as G.F*W gets so omnipotent, I guess I should dig a tiny hole in it by using twitter anyway. Read more...
Three ways to use Twitter on Symbian phones
February 22nd, 2010Overheated House Market in China
January 19th, 2010I wonder how long will this continue… Last Sunday I helped my relatives to buy two apartment suites in the peripheral area of Xiamen, and it was not an enjoyable shopping experience. Read more...
How to bypass firewalls under Firefox
January 18th, 2010I previously used QuickProxy addon for Firefox but found that it failed to load Youtube for me. Today I changed my proxyfier into FoxyProxy and it solved all my problems. Here is a brief tutorial of how to use it under Firefox. Read more...
Happiness: new understanding
December 28th, 2009Now I have a new perspective of what happiness is: it is more dependent on what you don’t have than what you have and plan to have. Read more...
Running Hiren’s BootCD from hard drive
December 28th, 2009Hiren’s BootCD is easily rankings itsself among the best boot cds and system maintainance tools. I have configured it to run both from my USB stick or directly from hard disk. Here is how to boot Hiren’s BootCD from the hard disk using text for dos (text4dos). Read more...
Count the blessings
December 24th, 2009Let me count the blessings I have in my life at this moment: Read more...
My forecast of China’s economy in 2010
December 20th, 2009I am no economist, but I can make a few predictions of China’s economic situation in 2010. As a common consumer and wage earner, I see into my wallet and make the following economic forecast: Read more...
Prevent Directory Listing in Lighttpd
December 7th, 2009How to prevent files under wp-content/uploads to be listed in the browser? It is actually a one-liner under Lighttpd (lighty). Read more...
Debian Squeeze minior tweaks
November 11th, 2009Yes, I upgraded from Debian Lenny to Squeeze because I need ibus to replace scim as my default Chinese input program. So far the experience with ibus is good but the same was half-true with Squeeze. I spent quite some time to make Squeeze more comfortable to use. Read more...
Maybe a GRE vocabulary site one day
November 2nd, 2009Maybe I will lauch my first ‘commerical’ site dealing with GRE vocabulary in the spring semester. Knowing a lot of words and be able to use them properly is something I want to do, and it would be wonderful I could teach and learn those words at the same time. Read more...