Three ways to use Twitter on Symbian phones

February 22nd, 2010

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...

Overheated House Market in China

January 19th, 2010

I 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, 2010

I 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, 2009

Now 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, 2009

Hiren’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, 2009

Let me count the blessings I have in my life at this moment: Read more...

My forecast of China’s economy in 2010

December 20th, 2009

I 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, 2009

How 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, 2009

Yes, 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, 2009

Maybe 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...