According to the report, the girl who sang “Ode to the Motherland” during 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremonies was actually lip-syncing. The real singer is not on stage due to her face deemed “not suitable” by the authorities.
What a shame.
See if they will go tell the gold metal winners to have other people replace [...]
I met my friend on-line recently, and he was bemused by various options to choose from for his project. It was actually a simple problem, he just needed to choose the combination of options that will generate best profit. The problem is, how?
In his case, his customer contracted out a system to his company, so [...]
I was asked this interesting question yesterday. To keep my bad habit consistent, I asked the young man back instead of directly answering the question: What programming languages have you learned? and Why? He gave me a modest answer that he learned what the school taught to earn semester units. However, he was very confused about [...]
Most people mix ”network connectivity” and “working browser” together, which means, if they can’t use their browser to browse the internet, they will say that they are not connected. And yes, they e-mail tech support complaining that they don’t have network connectivity.
Alright, customers are always right. So it’s the little peon’s job to figure out what they [...]
One major blocker for a software project to finish is unsatisfactory performance. Engineers always are asked to tune the performance to customers’ satisfaction no matter what. Performance tuning itself is a very interesting topic and I’d like to share some interesting things that I’ve encountered before.
Two main performance tuning targets are reducing execution time or shortening [...]
I work on the firewall part of NIS 2007 (”work” is an abbreviation of ”design, implement and debug”). It won PC Magzine Editor’s Choice in October, which made me very happy
To top it off, PC Magazine recently published their 2006 Year in Review feature where they rate the best and worst technologies of the year. [...]
It seems to me that this certification is going to be rendered useless in the upcoming .Net 2.0 era. Well, since I am an MCSD, I am allowed to show off this logo on my personal blog. If you want to know whether the certification works, I’d say, it works to some degree. I pursued [...]
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