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Prison BreakFinished watching Prison Break season I and II. It took me quite a few nights, and it's summer time, got stop watching that many shows, and go out for BBQ and enjoy the sunshine... :) Indeed, after watching the show, start admiring what Michael has done to break out of the prison and save his brother's life. If any of us (testers and developers) could develop plan like he did, the product we are developing would be far better.. :) And if we could deal w/ the dynamic situation that wisely, ... Plan is one thing, and to respond to the dynamic situation changes is another thing, and then it's in God hands, really just need to wait for the lucky or miracle to happen. Start blogging againShortly after I stopped blogging things, I realized that I got most of my ideas lost on track, or totally lost, and no way to remember them again in any way. So here I am, start writting blog again, and have another blog Coding for breaking Click here to see March 18 Blog life ended After nearly four years of blogging life, I decided to end my blogging life, so sad, but it's time to start a new life, and I might be back in about few months, few years, who knows. Keep checking the new website http://mscanada.net I've dumped all the posts from previous http://mscanada.net to a PDF file thru blogbooker, a pretty good tool. If you like, you can download all the posts from here http://public.me.com/mikevancouver/ -> blog-book.pdf Instead I'm writing notes on facebook http://www.facebook.com/feeds/notes.php?id=585238302&viewer=585238302&key=224f1e20a9&format=rss20 (dont think I can update this so often) Twitter http://twitter.com/mjOoO (wont update so often) Gallery http://gallery.mscanada.net (will update this) Most importantly, I'll spend time to enjoy everyday, and spending time to plan my long-await dream, magazine. twitter dump IE8 is officially released today http://microsoft.com/ie will take the citizenship test in Apr >> Yesterday Stick to the status quo >> Today horoscope: Play fair and others will play fair with you Carrie Underwood on American Idol tonight awk 'BEGIN { initialize ...} { do sth.} END { finalize }' writing sth. from powershell, is that cool? is advised to "Stick to the status quo" by horoscope iPhone 3.0 is here, right @ the corner watching 24 now watching the python, django and app engine by Guido Van Rossum AriZona Iced Tea w/ Lemon flavor is not a bad choice at all, available at safeway Miro is a good vblog watching tool knowing he is not knowing raining now how amazing TV shows can paralyze people's mind finished watching Flashpoint - if you wanna do it right, you want revenge, justice is just the wrong way to do watching Terminator looking for review of sigma 70-300 Macro lens 7.7% for whole canada ..... so bad 7.7% unemployment rate for Feb @ Van 5.5% unemployment in Vancouver already weekend is comin new ipod shuffle looks nice, wonder how to sync w/ mac VHS tape is pretty cheap today, wonder why people doesnt use them any more http://tinyurl.com/3xw3v Everybody wants to be a cat. curl on windows working just as-is learning electronic guitar @ bpl Launchy {http://www.launchy.net/} on windows, QuickSilver {http://www.blacktree.com/} on mac watching Lie 2 me uninstalled Vanilla Perl and installing Strawberry Perl now, coz strawberry is for production, vanilla for experimental, huh sending msg from curl -u username:passwd -d status='your msg' http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml going to library to find books for video/photo editings automation is not a word, or not a group of people; it is the way you work, it is the way you live, and it's in your deep mind @ai829 gaming & lotto industry would need more people coz people would stay home playing games or go out buy fortune Pash, powershell for rest of us unix/mac geeks http://sourceforge.net/projects/pash perl -MCPAN -e shell Vanilla Perl tastes vanilla on Windows 7 3km @ 6km / hour is pretty good walk after work doesn't feel a thing for technology now... sigh what I hate about the new macbook pro 17" is the crappy keyboard, I'm still loving the one I have, the old 17" model @ai829 u can watch sleepless in Seattle if ya cant sleep next time... negotiation is about what I have and what I want... so gotta know myself really well before doing that. 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know http://tinyurl.com/6k69ge technology is never the problematic part of your project or architecture http://blog.mscanada.net/?p=707 cypress mtn got 45cm new snow in these 2 days Microsoft Expression learning videos http://tinyurl.com/6qfmfv publish a post to wordpress by using AppleScript http://blog.mscanada.net/?p=716 's watching Friends -> Terminator -> Flashpoint -> Numb3rs ... what .... too many TiVos soapUI to test your soap, web services or RESTful services passion to new technology & coding + creativity = ? boring @ home now... let it snow, let it snow.... Michael gets 3 lessons left waiting 4 dumplings is gonna watch 24, new episode just ate sushi all-you-can-eat... alot food is going to renew his passport ... then head out of the country next month scriptella shows ya how simple the ETL could be http://scriptella.javaforge.com/tutorial.html @ai829 disney land, california world, Santa Monica, manhatan beach, universal studio, + bars, bars, drinks.... LOL watched Garfield movie again... LOL @drjasonharrison good luck just finished a stella & pale ale paid deductions late... sigh ever wanna write NTFS partition on your mac? NTFS-3g http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ Tuesday still not my day just finished watching 24 tonight, still got about 15 hours to go playing cURL w/ post data or form data http://blog.mscanada.net/?p=685 Killer Mac Apps http://blog.mscanada.net/?page_id=89 Monday is just not one of my day... and yea, it closes to end. dropbox is similar to Microsoft Live Mesh, but w/ version control and social ... http://getdropbox.com is in search of passion just finished changing his blog's look-and-feel .. http://mscanada.net or http://blog.mscanada.net more free mind mapping software, not only FreeMind, but XMind, VUE ... check wikipedia http://tinyurl.com/3b5fuk MacFusion gives a beautiful UI to MacFUSE ... http://www.macfusionapp.org/ watched last episode of Friends again Valentine's coming just installed iLife '09 @ai829 really bad that CCTV building got fire... looks like it was night time, hopefully no one hurt (fingers crossed) @ai829 I like the Vanilla Latter @ *$ @ai829 100 square meters wud cost 100 mtn, 100/12 = 8.3 years, that's pretty good is watching Chuck, following by 24... :D enjoyed walking back home since JSON just monitor the HTTP requests, `curl` is the ideal client to test your JSON server APIs... LOL `mdfind`, the spotlight in your terminal http://www.jaspersoft.com/ jasper* (report, analysis, server..etc.) is a good choice if you like OSS, truely is feeling boring stay up late, got nothing done... :( just know IBM cognos adopted MDX as well, and quite a few other companies BC unemployment rate sore over 7% think about `python` is not that bad lang using powershell to test your website... not a bad idea at all http://tinyurl.com/bfkddc is back from UG meeting @ BCIT, and learnt nothing... sigh wrote nl, wc, cut, sed, egrep, u2win, win2u unix-like tools using .net ... http://blog.mscanada.net/?page_id=61 is stuck w/ vi... couldn't find any better text editor to replace it. good & bad. twittering from dashboard... LOL 's python automation scripts worked just like he expected... LOL jvm warmup loading & garbage collecting process might slow your app down... everyone knows it, but did ya consider it for your perf testing? @ai829 im learning snowboarding.... sb for short... LOL Camino is a nice browser ... :) xTime Project is an even nicer project mgmt software on Mac. OmniGraffle is a great tool for Mac users, if you are looking 4 a Visio alternatives digg.com/technology is good place for techy news @ai829 Seattle should be a little higher than Beijing, closer to North... LOL @ai829 IE8 is also cool ... anyway I'm using Camino is watching flashpoint wanna automate the annoying ftp process? ... http://blog.mscanada.net/?p=583 u dont need a passwd while using putty... http://blog.mscanada.net/?p=594 @ai829 everything will replace j2me... ajax, flash, silverlight, flex, web 3.0 ... etc. etc... LOL stay up late but got nothin' done Yoyo is a scientific thing here, and more fun thing in China has come back from TELUS World of Science... lotsa stuff need to learn... but also old tricks from China too... :D just knew "You are Not alone" sung by Michael Jackson... LOL is listening "take me to your heart" ... nothin' last 4ever, we are only here 4 2day..... so enjoy is goin' 2 see the TELUS World of Science 2day.... exciting finished level 2 @ cypress yes2day parking door stuck half way isn't fun... stuck @ home, dont know when cud get to cypress goin'2 cypress mtn watching "just married" watching "executive decision" February 10 Crisis makes company boost productivity Indeed, the crisis is just making companies think about any way they can come out to boost the productivity. And once the crisis is passed, then we will forget all about it, start getting bigger, and fill junk into the organization (I didn't mean person, the procedures too)... and then decades later, we got into the same issue, another crisis, it may be triggered from different angle, but will be the same result... so we are just doing things cycle by cycle, we did learn from history a bit, just a bit. That's still a good news, since a bit for every decade, it could be a lot for couple centuries... but after that, people will totally forget about the whole history, then repeat all over again. If you don't believe me, start reading the world history from the day we have any record, and not only read it, think about it. January 17 Snowboarding Day 2 - Levels up to 2/5In total, I booked 5 classes, and last year, way back to Dec, the 1st day of the Cypress Openning, I took my first class, it wasn't lotsa fun, lotsa falls... but did learn a lot, have to look straight, which I didn't do, I just tried to look my feet and the board.
Today, got to the mtn, and gave it a show for the heelside sliding, and tried to look straight, and really it is much better, and easy to keep balance that way, like the instructor said you look down, you will be sucked down, look up/straight, and finally what we do is to look the way we are going while doing the heelside traversing and toeside traversing. So wanna go left? Use left arm/hand pointing to left, and keep eyes look left, then it'll go left; do the same things to right side, it'll go right. Pretty amazing today, less falls. And the weather there @ cypress is pretty warm today, I've seen lotsa people wearing short t-shirts standing on the board, cool, but mightbe a little dangerous.
So heelside sliding, toeside sliding, heelside traversing, toeside traversing, all of these have been finished by these first two classes. What should I look for for next one? Turn, and we did a little pre-run for the turning, it is hard to do so. What I am thinking that, to be able to do the sliding & traversing, need to keep eyes focus on the way we go, and stop looking down... by doing the turn, must stop fearing the speed, b/c when the board turn straight down to the hill, it runs faster, and I always tend to control it, in contrast, what I should do? Shud just use the speed, then make the turns, I did quite good turns today, and some terribles too... Definitely need more instruction on that for next class... and more practice.
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January 14 Finally, Microsoft decides not support the backward compatibility in the old ways in Windows 7 Microsoft has been doing the backward compatibility in the binary form for quite a while, since windows 95 'til vista, and Windows 7 will just end all of this. Remembers that on Unix world, compatibility only happens for source code level, any new release, or any new system (from different companies), you happens to run the compilation for you applications or download the appropriate existing packages (ports) from the site which have been compiled by the supporting companies or 3rd parties. That's why today, the unix developers have to write the sophiscated configure file and makefile to check the machine configurations. When Apple moves from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, they didn't support OS 9 fully & natively in OS X, simply created a simulator / emulator, so called classic environment to run your old apps. Indeed, in this way, it'll make the switches faster, b/c people knows they are running the app in old mode, it'll be retired soon. Now back to Microsoft, so why Microsoft has to be different, and provide the binary backward compatibilities, which would make every new release of windows carry huge amount of libraries just to provide the backward functions signatures / calls, so ridiculous, huh? But we should appreciate that Microsoft has done this for us, b/c we don't even worry about buying a new Windows, then our old application / games won't run on it. But that legacy just costs Microsoft too much, not only energies, performance sufferings, design problems (cannot really do another clean design to fix the old architecture issue if everything so tight to each other). So what is Microsoft doing for Windows 7? Totally new design of the Windows 7 native APIs, clean design, everything's good, and if you are gonna move .net apps there, it'll still run. For the old legacy applications, you are gonna have to run in the "virtualization" mode (or maybe called emulation/simulation mode, whatever it's been called), you may suffer on performance by running the legacy applications, but the gain is for the new applications, it runs fast, really fast, and much more stable. And b/c Microsoft is taking this approach, it'll give the other companies a break too, they will start thinking if they need to do the same thing just copy the Microsoft model/pattern esp. during this recession period. People has to learn by gaining more things they have to give up something. January 13 Microsoft SongSmith, game on to compete Apple's GarageBand Finally, Microsoft Research published more details for songsmith http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/ Game on! January 11 Objectives for 2009 Since I've got the DSLR, Camcorder, and the Mac loaded w/ all kinds of software, I need to do something serious about photo, music and video this year. - shoot more pictures w/ DSLR and retouch it, then publish it - shoot more videos than last year, and edit it, then publish it - compose at least one song, at least less things to do this year would be blogging, instead I have to do it in a multimedia way, either photoblogging or videoblogging, not having a better idea yet... b/c transcript still will be needed for the damn search engines, and quick reading purpose. So this year, will be more shooting. 2009, the year of "shooting"... LOL (re-touching of coz) By doing all of these, definitely would require more sports activities, traveling either in or out of BC, few places targeted this year - Cypress, the place I'm learning my snowboarding - Whistler, it's a shame, living in Vancouver for more than 3 years, but never been to Whistler... sigh - Grouse Grind hacking, did it last year - Shanon fall, this year would do camping and hacking there - Hawaii, Sarah really wanna go there, better be this year, before having the baby - New York for 2010 new year - Golfing @ burnaby mountain (first, I have to learn it) - Carting (gotta do this in this year, talked about this in about 2 years, never got a chance) - Trip to China, not so sure if we are gonna do a quick one this year or a big one in 2010 - London by any chance if we can make it for this year - Paris, nice to go this year.... but maybe in 2010 CES, MacWorld round up The impressive products I've seen from the CES and MacWorld (just online, not the real one, hope one year I can attend those shows even Steven and Bill won't show up). For this little year... '09 - Sony Vaio P, the really silm sleeky laptop - Windows 7 beta - Garageband in iLife 09 - Face detection in iPhoto (iLife '09) - iWork online, a direct competition to google and msft office live I dislike - no snow leopard update, mightbe b/c it's just a fundamental enhancement - no big iLife or iWork changes for Mac - Windows 7 is more like vista enhancement rather than an innovative release (at least from an end user perspective) - new macbook pro 17", really hate that black keyboard thing, and the unibody is not making it a box style, comes w/ curve, maybe someone would like it. January 10 OO has been adopted for decades, but database has not been evolutionary that far Sadly, developers still have to consider the ORM (Object Relational Mapping) for storing their data. Even though there are quite ORM products on the market, but still a consideration has to be made for it.... Microsoft is creating LINQ to make it easier, and SQLObject on python, Java has spring... etc.... I wouldn't say that they are going to the wrong way, but that's just another approach of the ORM, it's better, but far from innovative. In my imagination, as a developer, I shouldn't be rquired to consider how to store my data into table (by doing the table design), and store my data into objects (by doing object design).... there is only one design, that is object design, just need layout all the objects, and consider the domains (workflow, business rules, logics, constraints... etc.). And the tool should be able to create the object (class code), and come w/ the support for persistence by default. And how to save the object in db? Totally no idea, but it should be a totally re-creation of the database world. and give up the SQL interface mightbe. So far, Windows 7 is impressive So far, windows 7 is impressive w/ the UI goodies and enhanced performance. Didn't get time have a deep dive into the system yet... will see... and will see how Windows 7 could improve developer's life and make it easier . January 09 What is a concept of product today?I always like starting from a dictionary (like MSN Encarta or Webster), here is the definition from Encarta
Product - something made or created
So what is product? It is something made or created, it can be sold or given to customer for free. That only a basic definition. Why customer wanna buy it? B/c it can help them, can reduce the frustrations, if it cannot, then you failed to create a product.
But today, is that product is like traditional goods like food? People just buy it, consume it, that's it. Nah, customer want experience today, and a package, a package of what? Package of the experience. Means, you have to product the services, support, instructions, etc. etc. whatever they need to make a good use of the product? That makes the concept of product extending into almost everywhere.
Product is something made or created to make customer happier with what they are doing or will do. January 08 New Year, what else should be new?New year just pass’d for about a week, and Chinese New Year is coming soon. What else should be new? I’m thinking a plan, a plan of consolidating my wordpress style blog http://blog.mscanada.net into this Windows Live Space, no one wanna maintain multiple sites doing the same thing, and it’s not convenient for the readers either. So companies will think the same too, this year will see more and more companies aggressively consolidate the business units and boost the user experiences, to make customer’s life eaiser therefore put hands into their pockets… LOL What else does that mean? It means company restructuring, layoff, new hiring, people moving around. Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection (e25d9f8f-b6ac-4c05-ba1b-2e064c2ad566 - 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7)This is a temporary post that was not deleted. Please delete this manually. (e79b007f-4322-427a-8f28-5dbee6ca49e3 - 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7) December 29 What if God is a robotWhat if God is a robot, mostly we are arguing God is a he or she, and recently peopled called s/he, or God is our parent.... I got an idea, what if God is a Robot, or the mother of the Robots world, then everything becomes easier to explain. God (the leader of the Robots) try to recover the human world, so find a planet called Earth, plant the seeds, then we are beginning.... and of coz "God" can plant planets as well, wouldn't be too hard. Maybe that's another form of "matrix"... and to make people (us) believes God exists, God send Jesus (just like the other agents Smith in the Matrix movie), Jesus can tell the fortune, and judge anything w/o a failure, 100% accurate, b/c it "inherits" God's algorithms, and of coz Jesus can get back to live again after being killed. And another day dream, what if God is a girl, and she sent the man she loves to the Earth. What if? Really dont know the answer, and don't know when and who will find out. December 27 Merry ~~white~~ Christmas
This Christmas might be the most white one in Vancouver, we got tons of snow here, and yes, lotsa fun but not w/ the traffic. Vancouver is definitely not the city which is prepared for snow like this, west coast is not like East. December 16 Snowboarding Lesson 1 - heelside slipping & toeside slipping Sunday, Dec 14, the first day Cypress Mountain opens, my wife and I drove to the Cypress Mountain around noon, took my lesson card / 1niter bronze pass. Then went to the rentals, got the boots and snowboard, so happy and excited about that. But the things happened after weren’t exciting, but still good, lotsa falls onto the ground on my back and arm. Hopefully, I wasn’t hurt any, however need to be more careful next time… During the class, we learnt skating, bind one foot onto the board, use the other one to push the ground, then skating a little, or use the small hill switching the edges while have both feet bind’d, a little tough, but not too hard to do. And also how to get onto the lift and get off Heelside & toeside slipping And today I just found a good website to explain all the exercises for beginners http://www.abc-of-snowboarding.com/learn-snowboarding/ After reading everything from that website, and went thru few videos from YouTube, I clearly know that my goal for this winter season is to be able to do the linking turns… LOL key terms: heelside slipping, toeside slipping, heelside traversing, toeside traversing, falling leaf, garlands, linking turns The shuttle to Cypress Mtn is full, that aren’t fun to me Got up pretty early in the morning, at 6.30am, it may not be early to other people, but to me the night owl, it’s pretty… took a shower, then hopped onto sky train around 7.30am, fortunately I caught onto the 8.00am sea bus, and got off my feet to the Cypress Shuttle stop, it’s pretty easy to find, going out of the seabus station, cross the bus stops, and making a right turn on the Carrie Cates Ct, there is a cafe nearby, and a totem pole nearby, the guest service also there, so you won’t be able to miss it (or the simplest way to do, just follow the people who’s carrying snowboards, or wearing snow wears… ). I was waited there ’til 8.30AM, the shuttle got there few minutes late, and the driver started counting people, that made me embarrassing, but people just got onto the shuttle one by one, made me feel a little better, but when I got to the door, I was told, the bus was overloaded, and no more, indeed I can tell he’s telling the truth, b/c the last person (just in front me in the line), he had to sit on the ladders of the shuttle bus. But the thing happened following did not make me feel good, the driver said, he will be back soon, but I waited about an hour or so, didn’t see the bus, if I waited longer enough (means one more hour), I’m sure I can catch the next bus (10.30AM), but that’ll be too late for my class.. sigh, hopefully I made the right choice, just got back home, relax, and don’t do anything, or reading, I like reading, and listening Cherry Pie So guys, everyone knows the Lonsdale Quay Cypress shuttle stop is convenient, but you may not know that the bus could be full by that stop, so if you can, catch the one at downtown, not too far from Burard Station, quite a walk, but take a bus, it’ll be quick. Timeline happened this morning 6.30 AM, woke up 6.40 AM, Got up 7.30 AM, hopped onto sky train 8.00 AM, got onto seabus 8.20 AM, at shuttle bus stop 8.40 AM, was told the shuttle is full, will be back soon 9.30 AM, still couldn’t see any sign the shuttle will be back, came back home How could I not ask the driver how long would take him to be back to the Lonsdale Quay stop? … Ah By the way if you are gonna take the shuttle, make sure you buy the tickets from the mountain not on the bus, and buy the 5 pack (buy 4 get 1 free), details can be found on cypress mountains website. November 21 Google Search gets the "Promote" featureAmazingly, I just found that google search has this "Promote" feature, which can be used to promote the search result, promote any of them to be the first. I would assume that this is part of the personalization & customization, so next time when you and I type the same keyword on our own computers, the result would be totally different..... Imagine that, I am an IT people, you are an Auto deals, when we type the same keyword "auto", what are the potential results? To me, automation, or C auto keyword would show up; to ya, the auto info, new autos design, new autos delivering into market, or the crisis slow down the auto sales... etc. November 19 The Dead Tell a Tale China Doesn’t Care to Listen To - the author just don't know anythinghttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/world/asia/19mummy.html?ref=world&pagewanted=all Just read this news on New York Times. An ancient mummy, what that can approve? Xinjiang is part of China, that is the fact today, if Xinjiang is not part of China millions of years ago, even just closer, thousands of years ago, who cares... not so far, just 500 years ago, the States does NOT even exist... LOL I'm not the person who like talking about politics, but publish this kinda article on my favorite newspaper New York Times, it's kinda shame. If people wanna talk about history, talk about it, just don't put the unrelated & baseless politics there Ground Rules for Brainstorming#1 ... No Judgement call Never try to judge an idea during the brainstorming session, that'll totally kill the purpose of the brainstorming, collecting as more idea as we can. And judgement call is for next meeting, the judgement day meeting #2 ... No preferred person / idea Usually we have aggressive people in the group, and others just not. So everyone's idea is equally contributing the same value to the session, this must be clear. And the meeting holders shall not ask preferred person's idea, "John, what da ya think about this?", don't ask this kinda question. Just ask "Any one has any other idea?" and give eye contact to every one. #3 ... beer is welcome Encourage people to give the wild ideas, it doesn't matter if it can be true later, if it is an idea, it need to be consider later. And most of the success stories come from the wild wild idea. Bonus ... Quantity > Quality This would be the most interesting part of the meeting, more ideas you get, more options you have. So try to generate as more ideas as your team can. Try to give the person who gives most of the ideas a gift card (but the ideas just can't be the same or too similar, this seems against rule #1, but it's not, we are not gonna put the same thing on the board again and again unless people gives reason or perspectives.). November 17 Walk + RunStarting from today, I'll start record my physical exercise history... it's good for me to track the health..... :)
Walk - 2 miles, half an hour (mightbe 40 minutes) Run - 2 miles, half an hour (mightbe 20 minutes) I really curious how that happen, the same time, the same distance, the walk and run took the same time, I might count it wrong for run.... b/c I didn't count the time to get in home and change clothes.... will track it more accurate tomorrow. November 11 Let's Remember - 11/11Let's get together Let's be together Let's remember 'em The brave soldiers who fought for peace a century ago The brave soldiers who is fighting right now at this moment
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