Monthly Archives: May 2008

Overcome the Fear and Brave the New World

Today’s 101 Day Success Course from David Rayner reads:

Members of the tribe who wandered off on their own usually didn’t come back. Similarly members who tried to do things differently risked failure. Your subconscious therefore is pre-programmed to PROTECT you from venturing outside your comfort zone. It uses all sorts of tricks including procrastination and busyness (sic) and others that we are hardly aware of. The Gurus recommend for that reason that you work constantly on your Success Psychology, by listening to confidence boosting recordings and reading Success Stories! At the same time keep nudging your Comfort Zone.

Now it becomes ever clear to me that I must leave my comfort zone as quickly as possible. I need to start my adventure this year, and I have to overcome the fear of the unknown, before I am too old and too drained by the current environment.

Olympic Torch in Xiamen Today

Earthquake in Sichuan Province!

Magnitude 7.8 - EASTERN SICHUAN, CHINA

Earthquake Details
Magnitude 7.8
Date-Time

* Monday, May 12, 2008 at 06:28:00 UTC
* Monday, May 12, 2008 at 02:28:00 PM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 31.104°N, 103.270°E
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program

… …

Region EASTERN SICHUAN, CHINA

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID us2008ryan

“You bear it rather well, don’t you?”

Another Caricature of the Ongoing Inflation from Kdnet.net

The words on the rock: Inflation

Bottom of the cliff: An official of certain ministry — Hey, you grassroots bear it very well, don’t you?

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UAService.exe Service

I am running Win XP SP2 and noticed a couple of days ago that Task Manager list has shown this new process. It is in \Windows\System32 and the Properties Tab doesn’t has the Version item, which shows the company details.Does anyone know about this program UAService.exe? Is it a Trojan or something?

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A Bug in the GTD program Tudumo

In this post, I mentioned the clean and elegant interface of Tudumo, and recommended it as a good Getting Things Done program. However, I think I found a bug of it when I typed Chinese characters in it:

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Inflation in China

There is a big inflation going on in China. While the salary didn’t increase much in the past few years, the prices of goods for daily consumption have soared, most noticeably for such things as rice, cooking oil and pork.

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Reorganize Categories and Tags

I’m Knight” provided some valuable insights on the reorganization of categories and tags under WordPress

Why reorganize?

  • consolidate into fewer categories and make it one level only. No more hierarchy category.
  • the tag feature is build-in now. I can just make a open source category and tag each entry with more specific tag like Debian and LAMP.
  • tag your old post too, make it more visible to the search engine
  • tags can sort out the related posts and help display them to visitors

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Change Category Names under Wordpress

When I tried to change category names, WordPress simply prompted “category not updated”. I digged into the WordPress forum and find the solution in this post.

The issue may be that you are trying to change a category slug description to a category slug description that already exists within your blog. No doubles are allowed.

I changed the category slug into a unique one and the problem was resolved.

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Organize Life with the Time Management Software

There are numerous applications to manage your time and keep a To-do-list. For me the ideal application of this category should meet the following standards:

  • It should be freeware
  • Simple to add, delete and organize tasks
  • Remind me with sounds, preferably some cool sounds
  • Intuitive interface
  • Sleek in size. Not colossal programs for such a simple job

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