Monday, February 28, 2011

Every single contrivance of new Android device, either phone or tablet, by a competing firm, pushes the ecosystem of Android on a positively breakneck way.

Hooray! My Moto Milestone phone will be updated to Froyo, the Android 2.2, in this Q1.

Love that. Love Motorola.

Every accomplishment is a jocund party for the heart to celebrate.

Different individuals more or less contrive their own ways, on different front lines.

Wintry blows and flurries, in the broad sphere.

Many countries must be clamping down potential unrests by various measures, given the backdrop of the uprising of violent protests in Mideast and North Africa.

Information overload has cost me double amounts of time: the time it takes by itself, and the time I spend on tackling it.

The rain drops are being driven by the roaring winds to lash and whip at the windowpanes, in the broad pale daylight.

I for one suspect that Goldman Sachs conjured a $50 Billion bubble out of Facebook, which for many, certainly not all, users is a platform of information overload and requests overload.

Oh, I'm fond of David Cameron's sharp wisdom and words.

Wow. Canada's population is around 5 times of that of Libya. That makes me proud. :-)

Man, Canada even is the 36th most populous country in the world! Well, I guess that the gigantic number of the population of China, which was my home country, has blindfolded me so that I haven't been able to appreciate the fact that Canada is actually a relatively populous nation on the Earth. Well.

I for one admire those great minds that can conjure up powerful theories and models.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

You know what? Maybe among the strongest moments of a democratic political system are those when lots of people in it take to the street and protest.

Well, it's said that New Zealand is very prone to earthquakes. Is the long term situation over there worse than in Japan?

People should consider to gradually move out of there.

When can we do web dev without further ado?

Maybe there always are more than few financial firms which fudge their figures.

CBC News should contrive a better Android app.

How could BBC or its contractor conjure up such an ugly duckling Android app for the ever elegant BBC? :-)

Android Online Radio (for BBC).

Oftentimes true masters can conjure great results out of something which is of no value in the untrained eyes.

The default Chrome browser doesn't render XML pages in a user-friendly way.

What inconvenience.

The things of Captcha and reCAPTCHA are intriguing.

蔡康永,及其父蔡天鐸,貌似很有意思。

Human beings really are prone to indiscretions.

A man must ask himself, "what sort of man do you want to be?"

Years of grooming produce an unforced mien.

Today's light around 6:20AM conjured up my memories of the lights in my young and past days in China.

Trade and diplomatic accords among countries are typically the tips of the iceberg.

What are the real underneath forces of them?

What sort of consumer to be is at your discretion.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

YouTube video clips are discrete. They should make those continuously play, shouldn't they?

The mojo of human feelings.

Some people think different fields are discrete.

But many times they are not.

It seems that I love communication.

Well, nowadays, comparing to the Chrome browser, Firefox has got a face for radio, sort of.

Music video - 情人劫 - 老狼



Lyrics copied from http://goo.gl/Lp4NH and then corrected by me:

情人劫
作曲:郁冬    作词:郁冬

你就靠在地铁的站牌这么望着我
突然发现心中翻动一团未曾熄灭的火
很多朋友早已经走出我的生活
我所有的梦却只有你全都看过
记得我们分手那年你受了一点点委屈
今天我还不时琢磨那些点点滴滴
地铁列车接上所有的人匆匆驶过
霎时站台上就剩下我们两个
当你走后我终于知道
在你面前我在劫难逃
那些照片早已烧成了灰烬
可那些回忆怎么点也点不着
你的眼睛让我终于知道
你的怀抱让我在劫难逃
那些日子早已经无处寻找
可那些回忆跟着我奔跑
分手多年后我终于知道
再次相逢我在劫难逃
那些日子早已经无处寻找
可那些回忆跟着我奔跑

A potential customer always makes an inquiry first.

Discreetness of some people seems to be present since their very young ages.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

強烈推薦豆瓣電台的安卓 (Android) 手機客戶端。

In fact and in effect, a relatively unsophisticated education I had gotten in the nanny-state of China has wreaked my ignorance.

Nevertheless, it provides where I started going.

Independence means going from one platform to another better one discreetly.

Discreet inquiries tend to be going on everyday.

Have the corpses of state-owned companies in China been already largely eaten up?

The F5 key on Windows keyboard doesn't change a web page's URL to its default value at all.

It's deeply rooted in human beings' conscience to see how a certain thing stacks up against its peers.

Oh, the Chrome browser's lovely.

The popularity of various web gadgets has become largely determined by the Chinese consumers.

Some so-called tech articles from big companies are just elephant dung.

Hectic living is our rampant malady.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Hmm. I like the generally unobtrusive melody of female Japanese singers.

That's right. Sweet unobtrusiveness and melody.

Widespread internet gaming addiction among the young population is such a malady in Eastern Asian countries such as South Korea and China. It's been reported that a 30-year-old man died immediately after a straight 3-day online gaming session in the Beijing area lately.


At the same time, it seems that the severity of the addiction among North America's young people is not as bad as in Eastern Asia. Why?

If aristocrats in a nation unfairly compete with grassroots private businesses, and undermine civilians' interests as well, fie on them, and woe to them.

有時A驅動B,有時B驅動A。

開心大西洋。

青春是我意興闌珊時。

Science is science.

有時候,不讀書的人不明理。真的。

當然,不讀書的人有時候還是很明理的。

好的社區,有求必應。

日本の音楽です。

大家去試試豆瓣電台,蠻有愛的。

"吹盡狂沙始到金 "

千淘萬漉雖辛苦
吹盡狂沙始到金
- 劉禹錫《浪淘沙九首》其一

Know thy customers.

“己所不欲,勿施於人”極其難做到。真的。

Monday, February 21, 2011

Don't take it to heart, homeboy.

Social media really slam-dunks the paradigm shift of people's information intake.

For us the native speakers of Chinese, English learning is our overload.

On the other hand, English learning is also our opportunity.

DOD, the United States Department of Defense.

DOD "is the U.S. federal department allocated the largest level of budgetary resources and charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the United States armed forces. The Department of Defense is an evolution of the Department of War." 
The DoD is the major tenant of The Pentagon building near Washington, D.C., and has three main components—the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. 
- Excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense

I don't know. Maybe the Mainland Chinese people take the American genre of airport novel too seriously.


Examples include Stephen King and Arthur Hailey.

Maybe entrepreneurial success increasingly does not depend on financial apparatus.

It's apparent that there will be a slew of newly minted graduates with Master's degrees.

Appropriately giving heed to apparel is a habit to be accompanied by cultural tastes, or more precisely, intellectual tastes, so to speak.

It seems that sometimes American and Canadian schools tend to be a little peevish.

There exists a certain cultured male Waspy mien.

I miss the authentic Cantonese Chow Mein.

Eastern Europeans have their own miens.

震撼劇烈。

朱光潛“身與時舛,志共道申”。


Notes for myself:

1. 朱光潛(1897年-1986年),「安徽省桐城縣人,北京大學教授。」
朱氏為中國現代美學的開拓者和奠基者之一。 
朱氏自幼接受父親嚴格的私塾教育,奠定其中國古典文學的基礎,中學就讀於桐城中學,熟讀桐城古文及唐、宋詩。1918年至1922年,就讀於香港大學,期間受胡適五四白話文學運動影響,毅然決定放棄古文和文言文,改寫白話文。 香港大學畢業後,先後於吳淞中國公學及浙江白馬湖春暉中學教書,因而結識朱自清、夏丏尊、豐子愷、葉聖陶等好友。後來決定離開春暉中學到上海成立立達學園,提出教育獨立自由的宣言,並一方面籌辦開明書局(出版作品皆以中學生為對象的出版社)。 1925年,考取公費留英,到愛丁堡大學選修英國文學、哲學、心理學等,畢業後至倫敦大學學院聽莎士比亞課程,同時又在巴黎大學註冊,對研究西方哲學、藝術美學、心理學產生濃厚興趣,在1933年獲得法國斯特拉斯堡大學博士學位。1933年回國,先後於北京大學、四川大學、武漢大學任教。 1949年以後,一直擔任北京大學教授,居住於燕東園27號。其美學思想曾數度遭受批判,文化大革命時被指控為「反動學術權威」,遭到抄家、鬥爭,並被剝奪執譯者的權利。 
1986年,因腦出血搶救不及時而去世。 
- Excerpted from http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E6%9C%B1%E5%85%89%E6%BD%9C

2. 安徽桐城,「清朝著名的文學流派「桐城派」即產生於此」,據稱「現在的桐城依然文風鼎盛,經濟活躍。」

“應憐屐齒印蒼苔。”

It appears that Western people are much more apt at miming in daily life than the Mainland Chinese people, on average.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

It's said that Linux' GUI utilities are slow to run and cumbersome to use. And different distributions of Linux do NOT have the same GUI utilities at all.

You know what? Actually the Find / Search functionality in Microsoft Notepad, which appears to be a very primitive product, is pretty good, comparing to some other programs which are not very well done.

Vintage music video - Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal (Live 1992 Dangerous Tour)



Michael Jackson, one of the best miming dancers ever, King of Pop!

Web forms can be elegant.

The Chrome browser vs. Firefox

PROS of Chrome in comparison with Firefox:

  • Prettiness: Chrome > Firefox
  • Viewing space: C > F
  • Integration with Google's own web services: C > F
  • User friendliness of web store: C > F
  • Average modernity and user friendliness of third party extensions / add-ons: C > F
  • Startup time: C < F


CONS of Chrome in comparison with Firefox:

  • Memory cost: Chrome > Firefox
  • Their own icon images: C < F
  • Web page favicon rendering: C < F

In both Windows 7 and Windows XP, it seems impossible to make a running MS-DOS window, i.e. Microsoft's shell command line prompt window, minimize to the Notification Area at the lower right corner or something, in order to make things look a bit neater.

Microsoft should make that happen.

Starting my lovely web server.

Rudimentary English can only express relatively rudimentary thoughts.

There are so many videos of mimers shows on the internet. But I personally think mimes should be short, for that matter.

The meme of the adoption of social media is indeed shifting and ripping the whole world.

學力的養成,有時以快打慢,有時以慢打快。

I don't like that some websites employ Adobe Flash on nearly every single web page of theirs.

The Analytic Psychology of C. G. Jung looks intriguing to me.

Detail of Animus in the Garden
(Image from http://goo.gl/dSGjd)

For instance, animus and anima.

Sometime a business and a potential customer of it are like star-crossed lovers.

It's an unfortunate fact that even today, many universities in China and Canada still churn out some graduates with unschooled thinking skills.

Atheists tend to be relatively unfortified, especially during times of great tests.

Disclaimer: I have been an atheist.

Many things that were considered unmanly have been becoming acceptable in mainstreams.

日本佛教頭兩大宗派 - 真宗、日蓮法華宗(a.k.a. 日蓮宗)

 (Pic from http://goo.gl/Q00dD)

到了明治時代,所有各宗各派,都轉向了真宗此一特色,全國的僧侶,都可以娶妻生子,公然攜帶妻室,共同住持寺院了。就真宗而言,此一宗派迄今已有七百多年歷史,比起基督教的新教,更早了三百餘年。在日本各宗派勢力中,真宗要數第一大派,現有寺院二萬五千多間,信徒數百萬人。 
... 
其次則為日蓮宗,... 
- Excerpted from 《中華百科全書》線上版, which is made by 台灣的文化大學(全稱為中國文化大學,位處台北市,私立大學)

主要由中國大陸人貢獻的互動百科、百度百科,主要由台灣人貢獻的繁體字版的維基百科,都很好。

It's REALLY difficult for a person to be not biased.

Douban.com's search API seems intriguing to me.

Every one of most companies starts from tiny beginnings. Most individuals too, for that matter.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

In the beginning of the 2000's, a career in Shanghai looked very promising for a person from elsewhere in China.

Each private entity and organization operates on his or their own terms.

公開課(Open Courses,例如 Open Yale Courses)和通識教育(liberal education)是不同的。

In the American education system, a student goes rather slowly to begin with, say, in elementary school and high school, in general.

Then the real deal comes in university and graduate school.

At first, I for one thought the almighty Google was invulnerable.

It appears that the retirement of Bill Gates from Microsoft marked the beginning of the end of the software empire.

At the beginning of a person's life, everything looks interestingly fresh.

It appears that a portion of the Chinese population is becoming increasingly not on good terms with Western countries, deep in their minds.

Comparative Religion, a field of Religious Studies, looks intriguing to me.

It seems that the larger proportion of all the existing mainstream religions and the mainstream branches of them were deemed more or less impious when they started out in the beginning. Examples include Christianity, Zionism, and so on.

I wonder how the fasting tradition in Arab countries came into being.

On a somewhat related note, the Arab populations apparently can fast once in a while, but not forever. That's why the steep rise of foodstuff prices largely wreaked the current political upheavals in the Arab nations to erupt.

Academia is an industry.

The Chrome browser's relatively larger memory footprint

The arrangement of each tab as a separate process in the Chrome browser costs more memory. For example, with the same other software processes and programs running on the side, a logged in iGoogle page and 5 other regular web pages, 6 tabs in total, consume roughly 1242M on my Windows XP machine.

By contrast, each tab in Firefox is just a distinct thread in the big Firefox process. In Firefox, 6 logged in iGoogle pages, whose total memory consumption should be around 1242M as presented above, with the same other processes and programs running. However, the actual total memory cost is just 875M.

Google Translate 讓人笑瘋掉 - “输入“有情人终成眷属”,给出的英文翻译是“Money talks””

(窦瑞刚发表的微博) 
google翻译最懂中国文化!所谓的#有情人终成眷属#在当下的中国实际上是“有钱能使鬼推磨”。在google翻译输入“有情人终成眷属”,给出的英文翻译是“Money talks”。在google翻译输入“Money talks”给出的中文结果是“有钱能使鬼推磨”。 
2月18日 13:53 来自新浪微博
- Copied from http://t.sina.com.cn/reagandou 



很明顯,Google Translate 已經成為中國人的每月笑點來源之一。

In terms of marketing, Justin Bieber's manager has done a great job.

Friday, February 18, 2011

In a democratic country, whenever the ruling party drops the ball, the opposition parties will bark real quick. :-)

Comparing with his peers in other Western countries, the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is a laughingstock. How come such a man became the Prime Minister of Italy?

However, his custom behaviors must have something to do with the pervasive culture of people consuming beautiful women in Italy, I guess.

文化修養與人生格局的一大作用,是教人分辨人生中不同事項的輕重。

In political terms, Canada seems to be not quite influential on the world and regional stages.

“这就是天竺么?不给力啊,老湿。”




Excerpted from http://goo.gl/zCKvk:
  虽然周星驰的无厘头已远离人民群众,但人民群众对无厘头的喜爱却从未远去。最近网络又有一部名叫《搞笑漫画日和》的动画开始流行,每部五分钟,没有条理、毫无逻辑的恶搞台词和剧情。就像周星驰无厘头石斑鱼的国语配音功不可没,《搞笑漫画日和》背后的网友配音团队也做出相当的贡献,尤其是中国传媒大学南广学院的CUCN201团队,四个配音专业大学生的习作,让本来是寝室的俗语“我勒个去”、“闹哪样”、“不给力”、“这货”,通过这部作品在网络蔓延开来。 
... 
  比如第一季第十话《西游记旅行的结尾》,这也是目前在国内网络最热门的一集,它讲述的是,天竺就在眼前,三藏法师和孙悟空、沙悟净(猪八戒早牺牲了)展开了不分胜负的赛跑。这样的故事描述起来很无趣,但动画中的人物会在平静的对话时突然变得抓狂,而且配上一些非常有意思的口头禅。另外这部作品还对日本的文学人物、各种艺能人进行恶搞。

In the Anglo-Saxon countries, such as the U.S. and Canada, tradition seems to always be able to come to terms with modernity.

That, contrasts with the situations in many many other countries.

When we're looking at a computer screen, the volume and arrangement of spaces in various program windows seem to be important to our user experience.

In general, WASPs are actually so poignantly Anglophile. :-)

At the same time, they are also profoundly fond of Paris.

Some very capable individuals speak in quite soft terms.

Some old people tend to be obstinate.

Financing, e.g. auto financing and house mortgages, provides flexibility of payment terms, at a price, for consumers.

I love European movies, e.g. the French ones.

Music video - Brahms - Hungarian Dance No.1

I seem to like Turkish stuff.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

The imposing European style buildings in old Shanghai speak of many things and deep history.

I guess finance jobs are few and far between in the U.S. and Canada. Why do some people still want to get in the door for monetary gains?

The New York Times is for highbrow readers.

Does the Canadian government carefully study the data of immigration, both in and out, when it decides to increase imposts?

Mandala (曼陀羅) & 大圓滿法門

Mandala (a word in English), 曼陀羅。佛教、印度教都有曼陀羅;作為佛教裡很特別的分支,藏密、唐密當然也有曼陀羅。

曼陀羅,與作為藏密的主要法門之一的大圓滿法門,不知有什麼關係?

On a related note, Carl Jung, the famous Swiss psychiatrist, also wrote an influential book, Mandala Symbolism, which was published in 1972 by the Princeton University Press. See http://www.amazon.com/Mandala-Symbolism-C-G-Jung/dp/0691017816 .

Maybe I have some complex feelings towards the ignorance of mine which is exposed by my knowledge.

A person's good nature should be accompanied by something else so that it's not easy for other persons to impose on it.

After spending some time staring at Firefox windows, when I get back to Chrome, wow, so slick!

I always can't really understand the Christian saying "Love your enemy".

Vintage music video - 萬水千山總是情



Lyrics copied from http://goo.gl/ge1MK:

汪明荃 - 萬水千山總是情
作曲:顧家輝 / 作詞:鄧偉雄 
莫說青山多障礙,風也急風也勁,
白雲過山峰也可傳情。 
莫說水中多變幻,水也清水也靜,
柔情似水愛共永。 
未怕罡風吹散了熱愛,萬水千山總是情,
聚散也有天注定,不怨天不怨命,
但求有山水共作証。

P.S. 我驚艷於這首歌歌詞的情懷,便搜索了一下作詞人的簡介。果然是大高手的作品。鄧偉雄,饒宗頤的女婿,曾為香港電視界黃金編劇。請看香港中文大學網站上的簡介:新傳校友 >>  特寫 >>  鄧偉雄。Excerpt (請海涵我的順手複製,中大。:-) ):

一個寫下香港電視黃金二十年的編劇、填出《萬水千山總是情》的作詞人、藝評家、金石收藏家,身兼香港大學饒宗頤藝術館的負責人,對於赫赫成就,他淡然處之:「這只是我的專業。」 
從大二開始在無綫電視做兼職,鄧偉雄一做便做了二十一年。時勢造英雄,英雄也造時勢,七、八十年代,正值香港電視業的黃金日子,鄧偉雄亦成就了電視劇的黃金時期。那時每遇上當紅劇集的大結局,街上就人跡稀疏,飯店提早打烊。他與一手建立的創作隊伍,締造了港人的集體回憶。

Montreal is sort of my airhead.

Will Canada's governments at all levels have to impose significantly heavier taxes?

What is particular with the science and technology sector of France? That nation seems to be really quite powerful in that sphere, actually.

The imposts in Quebec have grown heavier and they will likely be continuing to do so in the long term.

A myriad of parents of Chinese descent, either in China or overseas, tend to impose their own will upon their children.

They are creative. They are meticulous. They are scientific. And they are laboursome.

That is one of the right kinds of educated American individuals.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Impostures are hard to get rid of.

The powerful and relentless marketing machines in the U.S. have turned many people into airheads along certain dimensions. A good example would be the wholehearted adoption of the notion of "Financial Freedom" by many people.

Entropy looms large omnipresently in the financial world.

I used to own and ride on a trike in my childhood years.

Nice coffee. Hot coffee.

Acquiring two foreign languages actually is quite consequential.

Individual happiness defined by morality?

Imagine a sadomasochist who comes to savor serial killing and derives great pleasure from it. Imagine a hit man who derives enormous gratification from stalking and slaying. Imagine a terrorist who attached to al-Qaeda, flies a hjacked plane into the World Trade Center. Can these three people be said to have achived the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life, respectively? The answer is yes.
- Seligman, 2002, p. 303, n. 249
- Excerpted via the internet

Intriguingly, the home page and other pages of the Videotron website don't have a favicon!

The updating process of the Trend Micro Internet Security software is too slow and too long.

It seems that maybe Videotron has imposed throttling upon my internet connection.

The imposition of the European civilization, by its members, all over the world in the history has been so consequential.

Article via web - 东北曾经如此富强:1945年工业规模亚洲第一

东北曾经如此富强:1945年工业规模亚洲第一
网友 猪肉粉条 发表于:2007-12-15 17:34

东北独特的地理和地缘政治形势决定了这里自古以来就是东亚、北亚各大政治势力的演武场,多少次文化建设在毁灭性战争后几乎要重新来做,这是东北古代文化缺少遗存的重要原因,而东北历史的本来面目也就更加扑朔迷离,令史学家望而却步。可叹的是,在文化纪录和传播手段日益完备的近现代,我们仍然难以知道东北的那段岁月。


零星读到过《奉天日报》和《满洲日日新闻》等张作霖时期和伪满洲国时期的报纸,但对东北从1920年到1949年的历史一片模糊。读罢曲晓范先生的《近代东北城市的历史变迁》,除了惊讶于东北昔日的富强,更佩服于曲先生治学的公心、魄力,悲叹于中国的文化胸怀。在中国的历史教科书中, 关于东北1949年以前的历史,讲的只是奉系军阀和关内军阀一样压榨百姓,伪满洲国的14年就只是日本如何奴役人民。而对关内中国工商业介绍得太多,以致于谁都知道上海、天津、青岛、武汉,知道江浙财团。关于中国电影史则总是反复讲上海影业的繁荣,阮玲玉、胡蝶、赵丹广为人知,而对当时亚洲最大的电影厂 ——株式会社满洲映画协会只字不提,总是直接跳到1945年中共到长春接受日伪设备、厂房、人员,成立东北电影公司。这就有太多的自相矛盾,怎么1949 年的东北突然就成了共和国长子?东北又是拿什么来支援解放战争和赤贫中国的建设?长春又怎么突然成了新中国电影的摇篮?其实,东北人从年纪大的长辈那里很难听到象关内那样的对于旧社会生活的痛苦回忆,小时候的疑问在曲先生这部书里我们找到了线索。

1925年,奉系军阀在第三次直奉战争胜利后占领上海,这背后的基础就是东北的经济已经比肩江南,20年代末东北工业化水平已超过长江流域,张氏父子的新政使东北的民族工商业成为日本满铁附属地经济的威胁,这成为9.18事变的经济诱因。东北形成了以钢铁、煤炭为中心的重工业体系和以粮食加工、纺织、食品工业为中心的轻工业体系,而直到1949年,关内中国可怜的的工业还只是局限于几个大城市。20年代末,北平、上海拍发到欧美的电报需转经沈阳。东北易帜前夕,东北拥有了中国最强大的海空军,易职后全部移交南京政府。而当我们广泛宣传上海滩的繁华时,千万不要忘了20年代末30年代初的亚洲第二国际大都市 ——哈尔滨,34家外资银行在哈埠开设分支机构,与巴黎、纽约等国际金融中心直接业务往来,哈埠的金融动态左右远东的金融形势。在哈尔滨的外国商业机构达 1809个。1928年,以出超实际利益比较,哈尔滨滨江海关稳坐全国六大海关头把交椅,成为全国最大的面粉生产和出口基地、酒精和啤酒生产基地, 1926年,中国第一座广播电台——哈尔滨广播无线电台成立并开播。1928年5月,哈尔滨车站已经可以出售直达欧洲各城市的客票。

1932年3月9日,伪满洲国成立, 1943年,当时世界上约有80个独立国家或政权,承认伪满洲国的有苏联、泰国等23个,中华民国虽不承认伪满洲国的合法性,但在1935年之后与其建立了通邮、通车、通航及贸易联系。从1933年到1942年,伪满当局详尽规划了大大小小109个城市的建设,而这样的对东北的全面系统规划我们还没有做过。

长春曾是亚洲近代唯一一个比东京还先进的城市,是中国第一个全由外国专家规划设计的城市,是中国唯一的仿照外国首都建造的城市(巴黎、堪培拉),“国都新京(长春)”到1934年,整个城市全部掩映在绿海之中,因此有了“城市山林”和“森林之都”的美称。到1942年,长春人均占有绿地 2272平方米,超过华盛顿1倍,是日本大城市人均绿地面积的5倍,为世界大城市之冠,一时在国际上声名鹊起。1934年,长春建成亚洲最大的无线电台 ——新京无线电台,长春是亚洲第一个全面普及抽水马桶的城市,是亚洲第一个全面普及管道煤气的城市。长春是中国第一个规划地铁的城市,1938年开始,在 长春规划120公里的环城地铁和有轨电车道路,还有环城高速公路。主要街道的照明和电讯线路采用地下管线,是亚洲第一个实现主干道电线入地的城市。


伪满洲国是当时亚洲乃至世界经济成长最快的“国家”之一。由于关内连年内战,赤贫的中国人口大量涌向关外,1936年1月,全东北人口3097万, 到年底猛增到3701万人,1941年达到4229万人。东北在张氏家族时代就以惊人的城市化进度超越东部沿海,伪满时期城市人口继续增长,1931年 9.18事变前夕,东北城市化水平为11.5%,1942年达到23.8%,而中国城市化水平1990年才达到18.96%(2001年国家统计局数字显 示,东北地区城市化水平最高,达到52.1%,而2003年中国城市化水平为37%,)。1939年东北铁路里程超过10000公里,1945年达到 11479公里,而中国1949年铁路总里程22000公里,1943年东北公路总里程近6万公里,而到了1949年,中国含东北在内公路总里程才8.09万公里。 1932年,东北航空线总里程1.5万公里,当年或近年的中国航空线总里程目前没有数据,但是可以参考的是,1950年的中国民用航空线总里程才1.14 万公里。1940年,时速130公里的弹丸高速列车由大连机车厂研制成功。1934年至1943年运营于南满铁路新京至大连区间的亚细亚号特快列车采用大 连制造的SL-7流线型机车,全封闭式空调车厢。

到1945年,东北工业规模超过日本本土,亚洲第一。从沈阳到大连的沈大线两侧工厂烟囱林立,城市连成一片,成为举世闻名的“绵长工业区”,沈阳铁西区被誉为“东方鲁尔”。东北工业化水平迅速提高,1931年,工业总产值占工农业总产值的比重由26.9%增加到59.3%,而中国 2003年才达到 57.5%。1938年,伪满洲国共发电16.3亿度,而且有亚洲最早的大量的水力发电,1943年,丰满水电站开始发电,发电能力每年22亿度,而到了 1949年整个中国发电量才43亿度。1943年时,东北以占中国九分之一的土地和十分之一的人口生产了占全中国49.4%的煤,87.7%的生铁, 93%的钢材,93.3%的电,69%的硫酸,60%的苏打灰,66%的水泥,95%的机械,形成了庞大的人造石油、特种钢等当时领先世界的尖端科技企业。1945年时,全中国工业总产值东北占85%,台湾占10%,连年内战的“一穷二白”的中国其余部分只占5%。

作为全亚洲最美丽的城市,长春一度成为许多学者讨论国民政府还都何处的首选。胶着在太平洋战场上的美军为了换取苏联参战以大幅减少自己对日作战的伤亡,在雅尔塔,美英合伙秘密出卖了中国,以中国在外蒙古和东北权益的巨大丧失为代价换取了苏联的参战,他们指出:“惟有苏联参战,才能最终战胜和彻底摧毁日本”。1945年8月8日,苏联对日宣战。苏联150万军队在满洲里、朝鲜半岛北部、南萨哈林岛(库页岛)迅速摧毁了日本军队。仅仅23天的战 争,苏联军队以极少的对日作战伤亡从中国换取了巨大利益,(中国抗战后没敢追究关于中国的唐努乌梁海地区加入苏联成为图瓦人民共和国的问题,又在1946 年1月被迫同意了外蒙古独立,合计失去达173.5万平方公里的领土,而打下1300万平方公里江山的清政府才丢失领土150多万平方公里。唐努乌梁海地 区和外蒙古大部是丰美的草原和高山森林、草场,还有星罗棋布的湖泊和丰富的矿藏,而我们中国人至今还以为那里都是戈壁荒漠。)还缴获了丰厚的战利品。这还不知足,从1945年9月到1946年5月,苏军把东北的工厂、矿山、电站等物资绝大多数拆运回国,9月起7个月里火车日夜不停,甚至连长春市政府的办公 家具都不放过。仅拆运宏大的鞍钢就用了40天,发运货车60列。1945年11月15日前,仅从沈阳每天就有200辆货车开往苏联,到1946年初,大沈阳90%以上工厂都成空壳,连门窗都被拆走。共计劫走东北铁路机车的75%和货车的93%,而东北集中了中国当时的大部分铁路物资和几乎全部的世界先进水平的运输车辆。

东北抗日英雄李兆麟将军抗战后曾任中苏友好协会会长,面对当时东北复杂险恶的形势,他把个人安危置之度外,坚定地说:“如果我的血能擦亮人 民的眼睛,唤起人民的觉悟,我的死也是值得的。”据我党的一贯说法是,1946年3月9日李兆麟将军在哈尔滨被国民党特务杀害,但至今仍有歧义认为是苏军所为。著名地质学家、吉林人张莘夫受国民政府委派接收抚顺煤矿,1946年在试图阻止苏联工程师运走工厂里的机器时被害。鉴于苏联在伊朗、东北、东欧咄咄逼人的进攻态势威胁了美国利益,美国新任总统杜鲁门在中国要求下对苏联提出交涉,1946年3月苏军开始回国。

残存的千疮百孔的东北工矿交通和破败的城市仍然让全副美式装备的国军咋舌,国军更没有见过密集的高压电网和遍地飞驰的火车,留下了“将军全国都走遍,发现工业聚南满”的惊叹。


- Copied from http://history.qikoo.com/article/q7089366,86153c,,1.html (now defunct) in around 2008

- Recycled in 2011

There seems to be many impostors engaging in identity thefts.

The ever changing times have carried my kin in China. To where?

I like the high-speed ISPs for the services that they provide, but I for one also could throttle them at times.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

What are the differences between a Windows user session and a web user session?

My grandparents on my mum's side used to live in an adobe house.

But I personally think that adobe house perhaps is warmer than the concrete house which my grandma is living in, in the concrete jungle surrounding it.

The social demarcations in Canada are hard to discern but they really exist.

Pics - Barbers

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- Posted in around 2008
- Recycled in 2011

In fact, for some Chinese immigrants, Canada is just their abode.

I can't access Douban in the past a few days.

Well, we have to abide by the bidirectional firewall set up by the Chinese government, I guess.

English is relatively easy to learn to begin with but quite difficult to elevate later on.

The beseeching looks in some animals' eyes are very touching.

Perhaps it's really wiser for people to dive into the social networking thing slowly, instead of so fervently, to begin with.

Luck abides people who recognize it.

I have really bided my time.

Almost everyone is so laboursome and innovative in this age of lifelong learning.

Are people enduring Facebook overload?

Friday, February 11, 2011

Google Taiwan 的搜索頁面把部落格叫做“網誌”。有意思。

Live the life, for the fun of it.

For the same vodka and whiskey, sometimes the former tastes better than the latter, other times vice versa.

Slow websites repulse people.

斷斷續續地試聽過一些近幾年紅起來的華語歌手。比較無愛的說。

I was brought up in the then nearly monolithically atheist China and still remains to be nonreligious. But now I guess that in any given country, joy and peace appear more often and abide longer in an average religious person than in an average atheist.

I suspect that even if I lived my life before the internet age, I would still be wrung by information overload. :-)

大商人的行藏、發心實在是奧妙無比。

於思於隨

“行成於思,毀於隨。” 
《唐˙韓愈˙進學解》

釋義:行事順利有成是由於深思熟慮的緣故。

- Copied from 台灣教育部重編國語辭典修訂本 (Dictionary of Chinese Idioms) at http://goo.gl/nt1fr

Thursday, February 10, 2011

我個人給花費時間學習英文的同學們的一些建議

不管你每個星期花費在英文上的時間是多少,一定要注意有一個系統性的模樣,即:你每個星期在聽、說、讀、寫、vocabulary 等五個方面都得花時間,各方面的比例會因個人的實際情況不同而有不同百分比的分配,8% 等等。原因是那五個方面相輔相成、互相養育。則你的學力、能力的養成,可以邁上踏實前進之一途。

類似於一個少年人的飲食,在蔬菜、米麵、(肉蛋奶)、富含水分的飲品(如湯、水)方面都得有攝入量。

Enjoy.

其實,日行一善是不夠的。

Unknown shore

(Image from http://bit.ly/94Ic5G)


He was cast by sea waves on an unknown shore
Birds swarmed and swooned in cacophony
As if fain expostulating with each other

He walked and saw and thought
This would be a known shore in years

A company's employees must abide by the decisions of the company.

Digital assets are consequential.

“黑夜給了我黑色的眼睛,我卻用它尋找光明。” - 顧城詩作《一代人》

兩個名詞“運作”和“運營”在 Google Translate 上的英文翻譯都是 "operations"。

它們的動詞的英文翻譯呢?沒查過。我個人比較喜歡 "run" 的說。

“三十以後才明白”

很多人講究食物營養的滋養、運動的滋養。

但是,也許對心靈的滋養更加的重要。

電影《艋舺》中的黑幫殺戮和仇殺 - “擒賊先擒王”。

Should the favicon be rendered on every single web page in a user session?

In software programs and web services, up to how many characters can a text field receive?

The stress testing of Douban.com must be imperfect.

網絡論壇上的那些沒什麼營養的月經貼只是浪費人們的注意力和時間。

In Mathematics, the dread Lebesgue integration, which is named after the French mathematician Henri Lebesgue and is much more dreadful than the Riemann integration, looks interesting.

Integral Riemann-Darboux's integration (in blue) and Lebesgue integration (in red).

Zionism, the very powerful Jewish political movement, is very intriguing.

And relatedly, the Christian Zionism is also very interesting.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

I've heard that there's a free unlock package that can unlock iPhone and all of its paid apps.

I don't know if it contains spyware or something. It must be, right?

"Moral bankruptcy" is an interesting term.

I've become to like Canadians more and more.

People need to bide their time and then run when they need to run.

信、羅文裕的歌貌似也不是第一流。

巫啟賢的歌是曲好詞不好。

It seems that Facebook will become a dread company to most internet companies.

Sigh. The formidability of the Microsoft giant mirrored in the hearts and minds of the executives of Yahoo! in its early years has wrecked a hefty price of losing opportunities for the once promising company.

Many people like drawing. And they draw doodles everywhere, in the classroom, washroom, and so on.

In Canada and the U.S., you can see lots of painted doodles on building walls.

But I've never been able to draw.

The sometimes outrageous costs of law suits have made resorting to court largely only viable for the suits, especially in the U.S.

Can the existing glut of lawyers drive down the costs and benefit more average Joes and Janes?

My mind falls apart when I become tired and sleepy.

It seems that some native Chinese, even some with undergraduate and post-graduate degrees, don't know how to express their reasoning at all when they are expressing themselves. They simply reiterate their personal feelings.

Should they voice their reasoning when they try to make their points? Well, sometime when a person doesn't make his reasoning known, his words appear to be kind of like unconstructive jibber-jabber, right?

Vintage music video - 巫啟賢 - 心酸的情歌





Lyrics copied from http://goo.gl/oocgT:
心酸的情歌
作词:刘德华 作曲:巫启贤 编曲:杜自持 
此刻深深的伤透了 我唱着心酸的情歌
歌声不再有那美丽结局 与你重燃爱火
风中凄清的一个 却有谁人可知心事么
谁想到为你付出热爱在那夜 竟是错
留恋情 是我 曾经爱你是那么多
无心人 是你 令我热炽热爱一切没希望
我甘心将空虚中的一切都交托在这首歌
祇想一生在寂寞内剩余绝情来伴我
我伤心将消失中的深爱都寄语在这首歌
如今再没有力气共你在这夜 玩火
如今再没有力气共你在这夜 玩火
我個人覺得哈,劉德華演電影演得不是很有深度,歌唱得不是特別的好,寫的歌詞一般也不是特別優美,但是這首歌詞裡反映出的情懷很是不錯。

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

I personally think that some career paths actually are formidably difficult, if the people pursuing them knew beforehand. Knowledge is power.

Some worthwhile voices are lost in the massive noises on the internet. Can that be called an example of market inefficiencies?

Well, I don't know much about Mr. 周立波. But honestly, some of that Shanghai person's behaviors speak of bad taste in life.

I try to not lose any moment.

The details of people's daily life are more and more told of in this internet era.

What's the news with you, American economy?

For some, if not many, entrepreneurs who hold full-time jobs, the lack of time forbids them from sustaining their endeavors.

The said "moral bankruptcy" of Goldman Sachs and the likes of it & "a global financial levy"

The former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown once mentioned "a global financial levy" for banks and financial institutions. I wonder how well the actual implementation of it goes worldwide. I believe many people are watching that.

Take this as at http://goo.gl/QrekV:

Mr Brown said: "We need a global financial levy for the banks, we have to quash remuneration packages such as Goldman Sachs. I cannot allow this to continue. 
"Everything I find out convinces me we've got to go in deeper and I believe I'm the man to go in and deal with these problems with the banks." 
Last week Mr Brown said he made a "mistake" when he acceded to call for lighter regulations on financial institutions during his years as chancellor. 
Today he said: "Every time I moved on regulation I had people saying this is ridiculous - deregulation is the only way forward. I accept we didn't know what was going on inside independent companies. 
"The banks have let us down. There is a moral bankruptcy reflected in what I've been reading about and hearing out. I want a special investigation." 
Mr Brown added: "The banks are a risk to the economy. We've got to make sure they behave in a proper way. We've got to do it at an international level. We need agreement about what we need to do. A new global constitution for the banks is a big issue."

The forbiddingly tough economic situations in Europe, the political upheavals in the Mideast, and their potential interplays given the two regions' geographic proximity look worrisome for the still weak global economy.

Has the U.S. treated its financial debt to the U.N. too blatantly?

Hotmail is so apparently poorly managed. I don't understand why a myriad of people are still using it. Over time, it will wither, anyways.

Gmail by Google is the way to go.

I really think that the problem of information overload is formidable and consequential.

從太平洋中國到大西洋加拿大的洲際長程,

我的身軀是花費十幾個小時嗖地一下子飛過來的,我的心、腦、舌卻是花費多年一步又一步地走過來的。

I suppose that Beijing has become a forbidding mega city because of its extremely high housing costs, annoying traffic jams, and so on.

Perhaps I am lucky in that I came from China to Canada to seek my future, although many people think that great opportunities exist in China.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Wow. A grandly refreshing picture.

(Photo from http://goo.gl/5QqO6)

Note that the photograph "was taken on June 21, 2009 in Battle Creek, Michigan, US, using a Nikon D90", as stated at http://goo.gl/5QqO6 .

The piled snow on the balcony looks pretty like a loaf, in the pleasant breeze.

There are a great many shrewd businesspersons out there. But are all of them really sagacious?

Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln, was depicted as shrewish.

See this: http://goo.gl/a6AtS .

(Image from http://goo.gl/0kngY)

Is there an easy way to retrieve the history of the "Find" action in the Chrome browser?

The gait which Anglo Saxon people do things with tends to be understated.

孟郊之“月明直見嵩山雪”


天津橋下冰初結 
洛陽陌上人行絕 
榆柳蕭疏樓閣閒 
月明直見嵩山雪
--孟郊之《洛橋晚望》,未錄入《唐詩三百首》

“孟郊(751~814年),中國唐代詩人。... 孟浩然孫。”
- Excerpted from http://goo.gl/VKERK

The number of people one loves is much greater than that one trusts, in the Western world.

台灣演員阮經天在電影《艋舺》中的演技比較有愛的說。

Slashing snow

The winds blow
The street lamps hang low
I look out of the window

I don't know. Some of China's IT journalists seem to be a little blithe in their writing. Well, anyways, things with high hopes sell best.

The online searching expeditions take much time and intellectual resources and the like.

It is pivotal that there is a civil market of ideas, which compete with each other.

'Blissful' is a very rich word.

Blissful treatment of people leads to nowhere.

In my young years, I was ignorant but not blithe.

It seems that China's video streaming websites, such as tudou.com, are bedrid due to their lagging in technological capabilities.

And 56.com seems to be the best, relatively, among them.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

The consequences of social networking services are writ large on the face of the forthcoming years.

People will use them more and more to find information.

Is immigration to overseas a go for more and more businesspersons in China?

Jobs not allowing for career advancement tend to not retain workers.

Globalization has swelled the ranks of futureless people in the U.S. and Canada, as it were.

In Economics, the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility is "the central hypothesis of" the Utility Theory, which often gets criticized by some economists.

However, I have found it a powerful concept.

The accelerating pace of paradigm shift, which is pestering, costs us very much time and too much time.

我現在還不需要入 tablet.

One or more pragmatic ideals are among the best life companions of a boy then a man.

If you are using Internet Explorer, you might want to consider to switch to Firefox, or even better, Google's Chrome browser.

(Image from http://goo.gl/TIq5a)

Friday, February 4, 2011

我很喜歡 Google 產品的 understatedness, effciency, 與 effectiveness.

然而,Google 產品匱乏一些治愈系的感覺。

從此刻開始,我自己在這個部落格上面寫的中文文字,一律採用我心儀已久的繁體中文。

離根更近。

It seems that the high school and university students with the best critical thinking capabilities are concentrated in Beijing and Shanghai, the two hugest mega cities of China.

Well, it's obvious, isn't it?

I'm abandoning the labeling of the posts on this blog.

It's just neither necessary nor helpful. For finding information on this blog, a search will do.

Fluorine is everywhere in our daily life.

Fluoride toothpaste, fluoridated tap water, and fluorescent lighting are good examples.

Many old people are out of the frame of the web evolution.

Much of the hurry-scurry of smart phone apps is fads, for my money.

The colors and fonts of the Chrome browser on Linux machines seem to not be on a par with their counterparts on Windows and Mac machines.

Now that the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons has stripped the license of the disgraced Toronto pathologist Charles Randal Smith and found him "incompetent" and "unprofessional".

Note that Mr. Charles Smith had obtained his pathology training at University of Toronto in the 1970s. And now we know that an education from a prestigious university does NOT equal to high quality of a professional's work.

I adore and admire LSE.

Cost of living is spurting in Montreal this year.

What is wealth? Paper monies?

Thursday, February 3, 2011

What major elements have driven the current tectonic shift of the political landscape of the Arab world, such as what have been happening in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen?

It is said that the steeply rising cost of foods is one of them.

Gosh, introspective men's appeal may be rising.

The BURSTS of innovations happening in China are still not on a par with the SPURTS of those in the U.S.

Is China spurting its accumulated mammoth amount of U.S. dollars?

Or will it be?

There are many dirges in pop music.

The North American life is more or less mirthless for some first-generation Chinese immigrants.

Is Hong Kong an auspicious city?

And what about Singapore?

(A pic of Singapore from http://goo.gl/KJ2Au)

Twitter is the prototypical microblogging platform.

Better things will spawn.

Information overload calls out the scarcity of time and intelligent info. filtering mechanisms.

Should I switch to Mac or stay with Windows computers in the near future?

It's a tough call.

There must be many fireworks sputtering in China's small towns.

Without challenges, ignorance goes blithely.

The surname "Sachs" is a German and Jewish name.

It "took its name from the region of Saxony in central Germany".

Years and decades of marketing and advertisements can fill some people's conscience and turn them to slaves of materialism.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Some copyrighted software programs will eat themselves.

The current Quebec composer Pierre Lescaut's piece "Paysage d'Orient" (Oriental Landscape) sounds nice.

Please forgive my constant gripes about information overload. :-)

Teenage girls mostly speak words quickly.

And when they get excited or something, they sputter. Then you can tell they are excited.

The existence of unctuousness is reflected in many movie scenes.

Snobs snub people.

They tend to overestimate and underestimate.

Suomi, a.k.a. Finland, is an intriguing country.

Below are some images associated with it presented at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland:





Urho Kekkonen, 8th President of Finland



A Finnish-made F-18 of the Finnish Air Force.



Headquarters of Nokia, the largest Finnish company.


Impressive for a nation with a mere population of 5 million, isn't it?

Trust is earned.

British English sounds a lot crispier than American English. Delicious.

It feels that the reputation of Harvard University,

the ritzy brand name among the world's higher education institutes, was more ore less tarnished by HBS.

Snubbing is a bad habit.

The video streaming websites in China must remember this: first, do no hideosity. :-)

Too many people consider the finance or investment industry to be the top, the ritz.

But, is a job in it actually fool's gold? Well, ask those who left it.