tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102464172012-01-16T23:39:12.823-06:00Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01700876837266813213noreply@blogger.comBlogger881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10246417.post-69803902792314649082008-07-29T21:19:00.005-05:002008-07-29T21:24:39.785-05:00

For my Flex project at work, I use Cairgorm as the MVC framework. Not that I like Cairgorn a lot but at the time our project starts it seems to be the de-facto framework for mid-to-big-mess Flex applications. Adobe also stands behind Cairgorm in supporting and consulting it.The learning curve is not so steep. I pick up the tutorial material available at Adobe website, specially the animated

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A simple test page with the consumer a portlet in jetspeed 2.1 (Tomcat console above port 8081) and the producer in pluto 1.0.1 release (tomcat console beloew port 8080)I. IntroductionWSRP is an open standard proposed by OASIS for several years. The spec now is sponsored by a number ofbig names like IBM and BEA. There are currently two active implementation of the spec. One is wsrp4j fromApache

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Recent intruder shooting incidents around Houston reminds us about Texas gun law. In the state of Texas it is legal to own permitted firearms within your property's perimeter. Not only that there will be no charge for firing at the intruders also within your property's perimeter if you feel your life, your loved ones or your properties are in harm. No question asked.Joe Horn shot 2 buglers in

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"I was walking along a path with two friends—the sun was setting—suddenly the sky turned blood red—I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence—there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city—my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety—and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature."Edvard Munch

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Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me.

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The long-waited Firefox version 2.0 is out!Enhanced or added cool new features include:Improved Tabbed BrowsingSpell CheckingIntegrated Search SuggestionsPhishing ProtectionAnd many many more.So get rid of IE now and get some Firefox people.Go here for more infohttp://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features.html

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This year wings over Houston airshow features the remarkable highlight of the F-16 Fighting Falcon team the Thunderbirds from USAF. Last year performance was schedule for the Blue Angels (F/A 18 Super Hornet) of the navy but was finally cancelled due to the weather condition.I think the turn-over rate of this year is also higher than that of the last. Probably because of the weather condition

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Thanks Sonny for those photos.

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Photos taken at Downtown Aquarium in PROS sponsored event. I believe this is the BMW Sport Touring K 1200 GT.This baby costs around 20,000. I would buy this one if I could afford. Speaknig of riding a motocycle, I encountered several accidents when I was in HS.The first happended around lunar new year of 96. I was riding a 100 cc Yamaha down-hill. And then I saw this parkping lot on the side-way

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In this year tournament, Houston A team won 3rd place. Houston B team couldn't get thru the first round.Our first opponent is team New York currently holding the championship from last year. My first opponent is Umemura sensei, 5th dan. Hard to believe but I was pushed around by this little 5'3 woman. She scored one point by splitting my head in half and the other one by letting me went out of

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Eat tons of food, moon cakes, drink great green tea and watch the full moon.

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Working here at PROS for almost 2 and 1/2 years but I never actually saw the hardware/servers supporting us day to day at work. In my last day, I call up the IT manager Troy McDonald and ask if he could give me a guided-tour through our hardware infrastructure. Even though, remember PROS is an adventure, not a guided tour okay!!!Troy is a kind man. He not only takes me to see various servers but

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UH football is a phenomenon this year. They are undefeated in the last 4 games include the game this Saturday against the Oklahoma State U Cowboys 34 - 25. The Cowboys is currently in the big 12 conference.Last game with Grampling State witnessed the come back of UH fans: 28,000 people showed up for the game which is the biggest crowd ever in 5 years. And today game is even more crowded. I guess

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I just received the offer from JP Morgan Investment Bank last Friday. I went for the interview last Thursday and they made the decision one day after that. Pretty quick isn't it?The opportunity comes without my expectation. I wasn't in a race actively hunting for a new job. But I a friend of my passes the chance to me and I am just going to take it without hesitation.Sometimes I have this

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The good news is I am the project coordinator for the project.The bad news: this job is eating up my free time. By free time I mean time to play video games, watch TV, movies and watch football. It's just more work than I originally expected. But it's fun, exciting and rewarded because I could apply some of the management skills I copy from my manager at work onto this project.I'd always

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College football season starts this labor day weekend in Houston with UH Cougars vs Rice Owls. The game begins at 2000 but we arrive at Rice stadium really early for the tailgate party. I am surprised to see that many UH students and alumni show up a few hours before the game. And it's quite obvious to see that we outnumber the owls' fans. Five or six tents are setup for UH. Most of them are

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The event is boring and I don't think I would come back next year. If you want to try the suffering make sure you get a hold on the schedule and come out 30 minutes just before the balloons lift off.

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Justin just has some crazy idea that we all just go to Riveroak theater tomorrow and watch Enter the Dragon around 12AM. Why 12Am? Apparently this movie is older than most of us and almost no one (including me) even remembers that we ever watched it or not. Justin is an exception though, he's probably the most asianized white dude I've seen.I still recall Bruce Lee movies were still very popular

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Last couple of days I was having some major PC issues... corrupted USB hub for my laptop, failing peripherals of my desktop, and then to top it all off - Gaim started crashing immediately after it started the login process.. I was about to resort to a clean installation of Gaim and the two days of my life that I would lose while reinstalling and configuring all my apps.Looks like a

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Which of the followings should be the logo for Nha Trang company? Any change needed to be made? Your opinion counts!!!Thanks

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Couple of weeks ago, Barcelona really created a fever in America when 90,000 soccer fans came to witness the friendly match between Champions League winner with Chivas of Mexico. And last week 70,550 people attended the game between Barca and Club America.It's obvious that the appearance of Ronaldinho and Barca's reputation for being a champion is the main reason attracting people coming to the

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The Late show of David Letterman on Tuesday featured a funny session in which Dave read out loud Albert Einstein [fake] letters. Albert Einstein is not only famous for his theory in relativity but also for his hilarious, often eccentric personality reflected via numerous letters from his own account. I am pretty surprised that those [fake] letters actually carry the somewhat similar intelligently

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Wikimapia is a new map website borrowing Google mapping technology. Wikimapia revolutionary goes beyond Google by allowing users to collaboratively define their own comments to places they know to the global map.I have tried to defined a lot of known places for my hometown Nha Trang, Vietnam here.Some of the comments I read for Nha Trang are hilarious. Like this one is concerning the 4 Seasons

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20 miles north of Nha Trang city is Long Beach located within Cam Ranh city's proximity and not too far way from the new airport. The beach is clear and its water's temperature is quiet warm comparing to that of the surrounding area. But what impresses me the most is the scenic drive to the beach. The drive somewhat reminds me of highway 1 running alongside the pacific ocean, rearing the west

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Mom just pulled out some of my infant photos taken a very long time ago. Frankly, this is the first time I actually sit down to look at those. And I find that my infant photos are quite cute and innocent.3-month-old king6 months oldKinder graden ageSame place Now and thenPS: Sorry Goyza I fall in love with the lovely Nana already.

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I think Nha Trang has the boat trip deal in the world! Read on to find out more.I called the tour center to have them come and pick me up at 8:30. After circling around to pick up more customers, we finally set out to the harbor at 9:00.The tour composes of taking us going to 4 main islands circumcising Nha Trang city: Mun (Black) Island has it name for its distinct grayish rock, Mot (One) Island

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Located 2 miles north of Nhatrang city is a place call Hon Chong. In Vietnamese it means Stone Island or something similar because Hon Chong is a small island made out of stones stacking on each other.Road leads to Hon Chong. Pacific ocean is on the left!On the way to the top of the island, I find this art museum. It wasn't here the last time I came to Nha Trang.Hon Chong from the top of the

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On the way going back to Nha Trang, we bought some fruit called chom chom. The look may be deceivably ugly but it is very tasty.Spent my first day in Nhatrang on the beach. We catch the showering rain but it stops quickly just to yield the sunny sky again decorated by a rainbow.

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We spend most of the day today to go shopping in Ho Chi Minh city (used to be called Saigon before the war). Comparing to 4 years ago when I came here this place is better: more tourist friendly and cleaner than I had experienced. We take the cab to get around the city. The first people to visit is my uncle who was just undergone a heart bypass surgery: seven arteries needed to be replaced. I

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After 18 hours of flying and waiting during transit, we finally make it to Vietnam safely. The entire fly is nothing but boredom for the first 17.9 hours plus the last 10 minutes of the thrilling near-death experience when we landed in Vietnam.The story was this: everything was fine up to the time when we were approaching Ho Chi Minh City. I guess that the thunderstorm and a pouring rain at 11:30

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Well, last Friday was kinda crazy! We stopped at about every bar in downtown Houston for the beer festivity held by St. Arnold. The last place where we landed, The Flying Saucers, I witnessed a guy drank his 200th beer in 2 months or something and got his name printed in a plate which in turn nailed hard on the high wall. I looked around and found out that there are about 16 plates belong to a

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I think I am experiencing the world cup fever! We discuss about the event at work most of the time. We sneak out of the office to view the game for a few minutes. Some even take off due to "sickie" to watch the game at home. I wonder why don't we have the World Cup pool at PROS like the March Madness pool. Bring the excitement of March Madness to your office with a World Cup pool. It's nice

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I'm looking forward to watching the game this Thursday. It's crucial that we must win the game in order to be qualified for the second round. Don't know if I could get a portable TV, the 4 or 5-in color TV in Wal-Mart and bring it to work. But I doubt that the reception is OK because even my cell phone is working off and on in that building.I ran the simulation tonight for the match and the

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I notice that the Gatorade commercial featuring the ABC World Cup show has been out for a few weeks now. But I just saw the commercial for the first time today during the game between USA and Italy, and it's brilliant.In just 30 seconds, it really manages to capture worldwide soccer fans' passionate intensity, the truly hostile atmosphere that the Yanks often face when they play abroad,

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Group E's nickname is the group of death and I think today's games somewhat reflect the natural characteristic of the group.First game is between Ghana vs Czech Rep.Who would have guessed Ghana dominated the entire game and conquered the Czech with a convincing victory 2 - 0. Second game is even more exciting to see the little guy "David the USA" tied with world-class, stars-filled "Goliath the

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I've never looked down on friendship. And I have never taken my friendship for granted by any mean. Recently, there are some incidents, good and bad included, go through my life which I like to share. And they somehow change the way I feel about friendship in a very positive way.The first story is about love.A friend of mine recently broke up with her partner. This is beyond her what she could

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This is the song stucking in my head recently "Californication" of Red Hot Chilli Peppers in 2000.Both the lyrics and the rhythm are excellent.Doing some research about his song reveals that the song is a protest song about globalization, as with many of the other songs on Californication. It also talks about pornography, and makes several pop culture references, including Star Wars, the Apollo

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World Cup officially starts today with the game between host country Germany and Costa Rica. Haven't seen the whole game yet but watching the highlight of the game, I know this one of the best opening game ever, especially with Germany involves. The German soccer team has been known for their tactical mind-set, steelie mentality, emotionless in playing soccer.Branded with all kind of nicknames

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A friend of mine recently moved to a new high-rise apartment. So we open a house (more like apartment) warming party this weekend.The apartment is located somewhere in the galleria, on Post Oak street. It's nice, luxury and has all characteristic I would expect from a place like that: valet parking, strict security. It goes this way: you need to ask permission to get to the elevator, to the pool,

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I normally don't believe in astrology and its related methodology of horoscopes. But some of my family members and friends are truly believers in this shit. My grandma used to donate tons of food and money to a so-called "shaman" just because he was a "spiritual" leader of the local cult. Nowadays, every time I hear anyone calls themselves "spiritual" my blood boils. It's just after they mention

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FIFA World Cup this time is in Germany's 12 famous metropolitan areas. Don't know what it is for other people but to me, this country resembles discipline, innovation and aggressiveness!aggressiveness : WWI and WWII were the proofDiscipline: look at the way German soccer team plays. No wonder they're coined "German tank fleet". But that's for sport. If you happen to have a German client in your

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I just received this message today. I thought it would be helpful to pass it along. I myself sometimes have to flash the opposite drivers when I drive late at night across the cities. It's just meant to alert sleepy drivers to focus on the road. Or when you need to pass an 18-wheeler and you think that the driver can't clearly see you, you flash! I learned that from a friend who used to be a

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Maybe today's agenda is about AJAX.11 - 12 Java, Web 2.9 and Ajax2:45 - 3:45 Dojo Framework for Ajax app4 - 5 Smackdown for Ajax programming models and frameworksWhat surprises me most is that the so-called Ajax is a set of technologies existing in the late 90's. It became a big hit when Jesse James Garrett coined it AJAX in 2005. This leads to my personal conclusion that if you want new/old

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Third day by far has been the most productive day in JavaOne so far for me. Getting experience from yesterday, I get up early and catch the bus to Moscone at 8:00 even though the first session starts around 9:30. I attend to 4 technical sessions, 1 lab and a bird-of-a-feather today. Three of them are presented by Joshua Bloch. His telethon includes: Effective Java Reloaded, Java Puzzler and

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Today marks the first official day of JavaOne. I wake up at 7:00, have light breakfast and walk to Moscone center. It appears to be pretty close on the map but the path actually is a two-mile lengthy road; and it takes me almost 20 minutes to get there. There is a complimentary shuttle service take attendee to the center. It doesn't stop at my hotel but Hilton which is a about 20 minutes walking

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I arrived at SF International airport around 16:55, took a cab to get to my hotel located somewhere on Market street. I notice that it's kind of humid and warm: something unusual in SF. Even the cab driver admits that it's so warm today.The hotel where I stay filled with people coming for the conference. In fact, when I step up to get the key, one of the receptionist asks me if I am here for

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My friend Clay Smith finally graduated! We were going to school together for 4 years and I got out of college before Clay did in late 2004. In today's commencement I also ran into some of my classmates which I thought they would have never got out of college. But they did. This proves that if you stick around long enough, everybody could graduate, well at least in the U.S I mean!A friend of mine

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Below are the drive-thru ATM instructions for each gender. And I think whoever made these instructions had gone through thorough empirical observations like I did :-)MALE PROCEDURE:1. Drive up to the cash machine.2. Put down your car window.3. Insert card into machine and enter PIN.4. Enter amount of cash required and withdraw.5. Retrieve card, cash and receipt.6. Put window up.7. Drive

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Thank to a somewhat eccentric idea of Wilson and Helen (which I think stemmed from Wilson's sister), we drove 45 miles all the way to a farm in Wharton, set in the middle of "nowhere and goodbye", to pick strawberries, raspberries and peaches. I know it doesn't make any sense because you could just go to the store and buy bigger and cheaper strawberries and fruit there. But his was a fun,

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We still went go Galveston on Saturday despite of 70% chance of rain stated by the forecast. And it was raining by the time when we got there. Galveston beach was empty probably because of the weather. To my surprise, the sun appeared again in the afternoon yielding an azureous sky I'd been longing for the whole day.What we did: riding bikes for an hour, eating tons of crawfish, trying the bike

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One word to describe Jeff's birthday party: awesome. Except for the stupid roller derby show that only a knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, dimwitted moron like me (oopse!) go to.For those who couldn't come to the party - which happen to be re-allocated to a different location due to neighbors' complaint - here what we got:1. Five kinds of shitty beers which ranging somewhere between sewer water

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It is a slow game Wednesday night: the Astros beats LA Dodgers 4 to 3 after 14 innings! No homerun. I've been in the ball park several times. But this is the first time I get admitted to sit in the club section which accounts for about $40 a ticket. Expensive for a baseball game but you get for what you pay: the view is fantastic and full service is available upon request. In deed, you don't have

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I remember by the time Rita hit Texas, which is about 9 months ago, I saw gas price was at 3 bucks a gal and people just got in line to get it by hook or by crook. Now, gas price jumps up to 3 bucks again but this time nobody is excited about getting gas. I feel bad for those bastuhh driving big trucks and hummers. Seem like those guys gotta have defibrillators in their in case of getting a heart

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Some photos taken by Ann's camera @ Baker street last Friday. I don't know what in those glasses (besides oldie Jack) Shari gave me but they sure did a good job turning me to a funny guy. To assure you guys I wasn't drunk at all. But it's just me: even with a little bit of alcohol in my blood is enough to make me a comedian.The dart games were awesome even though I didn't really play them at all.

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A friend of mine recently asks if I would like to attend an opera sometimes on May. The show (The Coronation of Poppea) will be at the Houston Grand Opera.I've never been in an opera concert before. Partly because I often associate opera with the following assumptions:1. Opera is only for rich people2. Opera will put me to sleep3. Opera is a dead art form, ancient operas are performed over and

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Create eye-candy visual effect in web applications requires extensive use of Javascript. There are tons of javascript framework works out there to use. However, I faced one of the most challenging yet fundamental issue in javascript: cross-domain scripting (CDS).CDS restriction implemented in standard web browsers to prevent the execution of scripts reside in a different domain from the current

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If I could choose between......reading poetry of a blogger or sticking my finger in a light socket, I'd rather pick electrocution....reading poetry of a blogger or getting lost in a middle of a jungle without a map and compass, I would pick getting lost....reading poetry of a blogger or eating live grasshoppers, I'd grab some ketchup and start chewing....reading poetry of a blogger or vomiting

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The nice thing about Blogspot that I prefer over several blogging system (Xanga, LiveJournal...) is that you can do a lot of hacking with Blogspot.Well, just look at my last blog entry, I screwed the layout completely when I tried to cheat HTML table to render two images in the same row.And here is my latest hack: post flash content on Blogspot. If you can see the Flash, congrats, I will post

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When I was about 7 , my dad bought me a origami instruction book. For some reasons, origami attracts me a lot. Drawn into its magical symmetrical shapes, its offering for a tranquil state of mind I could spend several hours trying to solve a figure.The art of origami is that each figure has a set of instructions to guide you to the solution. But ultimately you need to practice and work the

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Gyoza wanted to try out if she's suited to replace Taco Bell chihuahua.This one is called "bon-bon Jovi" doggie style: hey, what do you call my mother, punk?How about ESPN swimsuit model without swimsuitThe good the bad, now the... sleepy. Come on, it's just11:00, let me sleep a lit' bit more. I still feel dizzy (probably from hang over last night)I know how you feel. Just tell me your problem,

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Okay.. day to day life starts from here. I feel comfortable working in this company because it literally doesn't strictly enforce dress-code. So T-shirt and jean are my usual outfit. Some guys even are more than just casual here: they wear sleep pants or shorts that look like boxers to work too (yes, i'm serious). I remember one time, we had an unexpected client greet and meet event. I ended up

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Google has just launched a new service called Calendar using only Ajax technology. Although it's still in beta mode like most of Google's services but the interface is very impressive. Ease of use is excellent and the UI is simple but informative.If you have a Google account, go here to check out this new service:http://www.google.com/calendarOr email me to get invitation if you don't have one :-

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I found some very cool fx photos created by bored desginers in their spare time, enjoy...Milk, beef, and geography. A triple threat. KISS panda styleThat's what happens when the mouse works too hardMust be chilly up there for lady libertyPriceless

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Location: Hermann ParkHouston, we have a gorgeous weekend! Japanese Festival this year was held on April 8th and 9th at Hermann Park. With two days of clear sky, lot of sunshine and temperature tops 75, we have a perfect weather to get outside.I came Saturday to help my teammates set up the tents for our dojo- Houston Budokan. Parking space is full even when it's still early in the morning. Only

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So after debating with myself for the last two months or so, I finally purchased the Sony Vaio SZ120P/B from an online store called vanns.com. I did, however, plan to get the laptop from Bestbuy because they seemed to be the only dog in town holding this precious sweetie. Fry's has Vaio too but with a different model SZ140 which is a bit pricier than this one. A quick note here, before we start

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I just notice that 1AM this morning we will encounter a unique event that only occurs again in the year 3006!If you pay attention to the hour after mid night tonight it would be 01:02:03 in military time and the date would be 04-05-06. Very cool. Of course you can have 02:03:04 05-06-07 for next year, but it doesn't start from 01.Some other unique events that I has seen in my life are:The

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Location: Kenyon Japanese BarThis restaurant is not as good as many reviews on the internet state so. The food is ok but service stinks. We arrived there on a Friday night around 9:00. Not so crowded but I only had my ice tea refill twice. And any closed friend of mine would know how many ice tea glasses I would consume in a meal!Beside their tatami room, I don't see anything quite

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Google just posted this service they claim to be in beta mode right now.The service allows users to upload their personal profiles and then search for matches using Google searching algorithm. In other word, it's the Google approach to online romance and dating like match.com.http://www.google.com/romance/Be careful as I think it is just a trick Google is planning on April Fool!!!Happy Fooling

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Well, GP team knows that we need to convert the current (old) UFO to the so-called new look-and-feel UFO. I personally think the new look-and-feel sucks big time. It is confused, complicated and filled with superfluous configuration. Yeah, one of the statements got repeated time after time at the company is "configurable". True, it's only configurable after *you* spending weeks on writing codes

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The National Enquirer recently reports that the pop diva/crack addict Whitney Houston has made a surprising turn for the worse. On Bobby Brown's sister account, Houston spends weeks at a time holed up in her crack dens and is living in utter squalor. She claims that Houston spends days locked in her bed room smoking rock amid piles of festering garbage while mumbling about "evil apparitions" and

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I recently ran across the transcript of Steve Jobs' speech at a commencement in Stanford last summer. Steve Jobs is currently Apple's CEO. The speech is very inspiring. Jobs mentioned three stories reflecting his life. I specially like the last one when he talked about death.In short, his idea is that life is short so don't waste your time living somebody else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma

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I took several photos to illustrate the concept of framing in photography.The use of frame can turn an otherwise plain photo into a pleasing one. Objects for frame are usually foreground elements such as tree branches, a window frame, a door, arches, a fence or rows of trees, etc...For example, those photos are taken from a park.In this one, the frames are: the bottom row of flowers and the

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DogHoroscopes.com has a comment about me:You have lots of nervous energy and love a game of any sort. This year prepare yourself for active times, but don't get off to a premature start until the go ahead signal is flashed. You hate to be criticized since you are so sensitive, but you must also watch your own attitudes and actions so as not to hurt those closest and dearest to your heart. You

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Music of the day: "Walking in Memphis" again - by LonestarI've been listening to the song for 2 days. And it stucks! It's just an ordinary song. The lyrics is so so but somehow manages to take over my brain. I think I'll probably get a migraine if I keep listening to the song one more day.Once, not so long ago,I had "Who Let the Dogs Out" stuck in my head for an entire day. I'd hum it in meetings

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Music of the day: "Walking in Memphis" by LonestarJulian Beever is an English artist who is famous for his art of the pavement around Europe. In this collection of photos, Julian shows off his talent in chalk drawing skill, which, when viewed at a proper angle, the drawings will appear in full 3D. The effect is convincing enough that pedestrians would try to avoid "holes" drawn on the streets,

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Hi, I am Bo Bo. I am 13 dog-years old. I once heard somebody said that for dog, after the 2nd year, each dog-year is equivalent to 4 human-year. So, hmm.. I am about 46 "years" old already.My mom just tells me today that i have cancer. I don't know what it is but i think it's bad 'cuz she cries a lot when we got home. She hugs and kisses me like she is going out of town tomorrow. Oh... wait a

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Bored with your black and white Linux prompt? Try these tips to pimp your shell prompt for St. Patrick's day.I tested these tips with Bash shell version 2 and above.Most of the time, when working in s shell we see the following shell staring back at us:bash-2.04$If you happen to be root, you have the a "nicer" prompt:bash-2.04#In fact, several Linux distributions have tried to replaced this

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Even though it is not official yet, but my manager has come to my desk and announced that they are sending me out to the annual JavaOne Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. The event lasts from May 13th to May 16th. I am still not sure how long I will be staying in San Francisco at the moment. They probably want me to fly there on a Saturday or Sunday, just 1 or 2 days before

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!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -->"My Dearest Love, it's almost dawn.I’ve been lying here all night long wondering where you might be.I saw your Mama and I showed her the ring. Man on the television said something so I couldn’t sleep. But I’ll be all right, I’m just missing you. And this is me kissing you:X’s and O’s,In a letter from home."

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"Pho" may not be the most tranditional Vietnamese food but I can assure you that it is the most popular/wide-spread cuisine among the others.Texas-size super bowl of pho (tô xe lửa) is as big as a full-size flower clay pot with full of hot source, boiled bean sprout and onion. From coast to coast, wherever Vietnamese community goes, there are always at least a couple of pho restaurants opened to

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LocationSpring break is here in Houston, but the weather doesn't' give us a break today with humidity reaches nearly 90% and temperature is top 85. Living in Houston for almost 8 years now but I don't really explore it much. So I decided to pay Houston's museum district a visit this weekend to learn more about Houston and take some pictures around. The Houston Museum district is one of the two

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10. To keep the hair out of their eyes9. They are looking for waldo8. Their mothers told them not to, so they do it anyway.7. Bothered by how many good bugs are wasted on the windshield6. It's their way of getting jiggy wit it.5. They want to impress other dogs with their rugged, windblown look.4. Much more effective way to distribute drool3. If they stuck their other end out the window, nobody

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Thru painful experience and sleepless nights, I finally figure out how to install Ubuntu or any kind of Lux distro to an external USB drive.The key idea is to modify the mini ramdisk to start USB support module during the boot sequence.Here it is:1) Install from CD 2) After installation, leave CD in drive and reboot with the parameter rescue3) Pick your language and country4) Wait for hardware

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Google just announced open federation for Google talk.What it means:""Open federation" is technical jargon for when people on different services can talk to each other. For example, email is a federated system. You might have a .edu address and I have a Gmail address, but you and I can still exchange email. The same for the phone: there's nothing that prevents Cingular users from talking to

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Last night was a great night for y'all Texans...I gathered a couple of guys at work to a local bar and watched the game there. When we arrived the place was packed and we had to sat outside. But all the TVs were big and we all had a clear sight of view.The entire game was amazing. I mean I have never scream like this since the US got into the 8 best world soccer teams in 2002. My friends in CA

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My friend Chris is getting marry. Again...He lives with this girl for 5 years now.. And they decided to get marry finally! I think he's losing weights taking care of the wedding. Poor guy. But hey, the bachelor party was great... Thanks Chris. I hope you like it like I did :-) 

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I use Mandrake 10.0 as my home server (Athena) almost for everything: Postfix mail, MySQL, sshd and ofcourse OpenLdap server 2.1 I've been trying to connect to the Ldap server from the server (localhost) and it works fine with simple (clear text) authentication. But when I use another host to connect, it always fails. I spent an entire weekend ( 18 hours) to find out what is going on. I read the

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First time using a blogger...

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