Though WebCrawler was live on the web on April 20 of 1994, this search engine was just known by me. According to its about documention, WebCrawler uses innovative metasearch technology to search the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, About, Looksmart and more.
With one single click, WebCrawler searches the best results from the combined pool of the world's leading search engines -- instead of results from only one single search engine. And WebCrawler makes it easy to refine your search so you can find the most meaningful results right away. No wonder it's a leader in the search industry.
Try a search and see for yourself?
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Friday, March 31, 2006
Apple I
Today 1 April is Apple Computer Inc.'s 30 years-old birthday. Forbes summarized 20 Great Moments in Apple History. Picture shown left is Apple I, once sold for $666. Its CPU ran at a speed of one megahertz, and the machine sported eight kilobytes of RAM. By today's standards, that's an underpowered pocket calculator.
Tags: Apple Steve Birthday Apple I
Google Hidden Payroll
Google Adsense makes its publishers in the developing countries have a better life. There are several examples mentioned in Google's hidden payroll, that's why Google has much more than enthusiasm to receive those successful stories. Though I am an Adsense publisher and also from developing country, I have to say, if any, to make the first 100 $ from Google, I still neeed to walk through a long way.
Tags: Google Adsense Publisher Advertising
New iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook
Jayesh Mansukhani reported Apple Unveils Dual-Core New iMac, Mac Mini (see picture, credit: Moneycontrol Tech Blog), MacBook in India.
The new iMac with just one inch thin features a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing, iLife ‘06, iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD and GarageBand alongside the Apple Remote and Front Row combo.
The new MacBook laptop, rumored to be the world’s fastest Core Duo laptop. It’s the first Mac notebook with PCI Express, a Serial ATA hard drive and the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 for superfast graphics performance.
The new Mac mini is up to four times faster with the Intel Core Duo, and has far better expansion capability for peripherals in the same compact design, which shipped with the previous generation.
Tags: Apple, iMAc, iMovie HD, GarageBand, Dual Core, iDVD, Intel, Laptop, Mac Mini, iPhoto
Jill Carroll, a Betrayal?
Jill Caroll's release s a great relief for all of those concerned her.
Amongh those, For Your Consideration said: "I was elated when the news broke about US Journalist, Jill Carroll, being released after being held hostage in Iraq."
While Kristi thanked God "I think it's a God-given miracle Jill Carroll is back safely."
Technorati Tags: Jill Caroll, Politics, News, Kidnapping, Iraq, Baghdad, Christian Science Monitor, Journalist
Amongh those, For Your Consideration said: "I was elated when the news broke about US Journalist, Jill Carroll, being released after being held hostage in Iraq."
While Kristi thanked God "I think it's a God-given miracle Jill Carroll is back safely."
Ms. Carroll was kidnapped at gunpoint on Jan. 7 as she finished interviewing a prominent Sunni politician. Her kidnappers had threatened to kill her times. However, some excerpts from a NYT report seems not so positive on this kidnapped journalist:
In a videotape posted Thursday on the Internet, made before her release, Ms. Carroll denounced the American presence in Iraq and praised the insurgents fighting here. In the video, Ms. Carroll smiled, laughed once and gestured in a seemingly relaxed manner, saying she felt guilty about being released while so many Iraqis were still suffering.
Ms. Carroll, apparently knowing she would be released, denounced what she described as the "lies" told by the American government and predicted that the insurgents would defeat the Americans in Iraq. "I feel guilty. I also feel that it just shows that the mujahedeen are good people fighting an honorable fight, a good fight. While the Americans are here, the occupying forces, you know, treating the people in a very, very bad way. So I can't be happy totally for my freedom because there are people still suffering in prisons, in very difficult situations."
These kind words for her captors were a sharp contrast to her demeanor on the videotapes made shortly after her kidnapping, in which she appeared distraught, weeping and terrified. Ms. Carroll's seeming sympathy for her captors suggested either that she was pretending in hopes of gaining her release or that, after suffering weeks of extreme duress, she had fallen under the sway of her kidnappers.
Such reported caused some people wanna figure out what her price was!Ms. Carroll, apparently knowing she would be released, denounced what she described as the "lies" told by the American government and predicted that the insurgents would defeat the Americans in Iraq. "I feel guilty. I also feel that it just shows that the mujahedeen are good people fighting an honorable fight, a good fight. While the Americans are here, the occupying forces, you know, treating the people in a very, very bad way. So I can't be happy totally for my freedom because there are people still suffering in prisons, in very difficult situations."
These kind words for her captors were a sharp contrast to her demeanor on the videotapes made shortly after her kidnapping, in which she appeared distraught, weeping and terrified. Ms. Carroll's seeming sympathy for her captors suggested either that she was pretending in hopes of gaining her release or that, after suffering weeks of extreme duress, she had fallen under the sway of her kidnappers.
Technorati Tags: Jill Caroll, Politics, News, Kidnapping, Iraq, Baghdad, Christian Science Monitor, Journalist
Google Baby
This baby named KaiWen may be much more special compared to most of others, she is a blogger publishing daily updated news around her on BaBy tHougHt . BaBy taLk and Baby KaiWen's View in English and Chinese, respectively. Being Google Adesense's publisher, she was dubbed Google Baby after she made her first one hundred US Dollars, which has already been jealous by many other bloggers even including myself. Beyond that, she is a Coca Cola Ambassadress, a F1 fan (because she was born in a F1 family) and now a follower of 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany!Besides, she has known the relationship between Moth and Butterfly, created her own toolbar with which you can get notified when receiving new e-mails to your POP3, Yahoo!, Gmail, or Hotmail accounts, once been a happiful "the third person" and toured Putrajaya International Conventional Centre (PICC) vicinity.
Baby Kaiwen, hope to see more fun brought by you! All the Best!
Tags: Baby KaiWen Blogger Adsense F1 World Cup
Fidel Castro Was dead?
Jawa Report first reported the rumor circulating in Spanish language papers that Cuban Leader Fidel Castro was dead, but later it turns out a hoax. Based on the update of that report, the remor was derived from an unorthodox rendering by Google's Language Tools on an Argentina's paper. Excerpts provided by Jawa Report from a very rough Google translation on Argentinian Indymedia:
The dictator Fidel Castro dies in Havana.It is almost sure that this is a serious joke because of an online service. Is it possilbe that Google would be boycotted by Cuba? At least now still unknown.May 29th, 10:22 P.M.
This afternoon, the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro died in his residence of the Laguito longevo .
According to sources officials the Cuban dictator I have not been castrating for some days was in delicate state of health after to have undergone a sudden infarct.
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Official sources of the government, the dictator's brother Raul Castro, and stops leaders of the regime have not even wanted to notify to the Cuban town, awaiting an international reaction.
Technorati Tags: Joke, Fidel Castro, Google, Translation
Passwords Can be Revealed by Goolge?
Scott Granneman, a senior consultant for Bryan Consulting Inc. in St. Louis and columnist in SecurityFocus once commented "Google is in many ways the most useful tool available to the bad guys, and the most dangerous Web site on the Internet for many, many thousands of individuals and organizations" in his artilce "Googling up Passwords". Follow his suggestions if you are owning an business site and make sure the contents published on your sites are safe and not revealled any confidential information such as the spreadsheet containing the company's top customers, complete with contact info, sales figures, and notes about who the salespeople think are good for a few thousand more......
Technorati Tags: Google, Security , Passwords, Business, Internet
Technorati Tags: Google, Security , Passwords, Business, Internet
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Whipping Not the Solution to Corruption
Recently, Transparecy International Germany Branch invovles a scandal over a blogger called Moni, resulting in hot debating in the blogospheres (links to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). But this buzzling can't ruin its reputation as a good organization battling the vices. Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) calls on stop whipping as a a penality for corruption. Malaysian News Agency Bernama's report says:
TI-M said Wednesday it was against the use of whipping as a method to curb corruption, adding that the penalty was an outdated method that did not have a place in modern society.
Its president, Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam, said a more holistic, radical and long-term approach had to be adopted to eliminate the menace in society.
"Whipping is not the solution to corruption. If whipping is introduced to combat corruption, a lot of people would be whipped!" he said in a statement issued here.
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Technorati Tags: Transparency International, Transparency, Corruption, Blogging, Blog, Solution, Whipping
TI-M said Wednesday it was against the use of whipping as a method to curb corruption, adding that the penalty was an outdated method that did not have a place in modern society.
Its president, Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam, said a more holistic, radical and long-term approach had to be adopted to eliminate the menace in society.
"Whipping is not the solution to corruption. If whipping is introduced to combat corruption, a lot of people would be whipped!" he said in a statement issued here.
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Technorati Tags: Transparency International, Transparency, Corruption, Blogging, Blog, Solution, Whipping
Queue-up Device
As a native Chinese from China and now studying abroad, I am really feeling that some of our Chinese people once did have some indecent/ugly behavious such as random span and pissing wherever they travel. Maybe such ugly things may decrease sharply recent years. But now what qualities do they still lack of?
seems that the pictures taken by a blogger in China when travelling to Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province in the middle of this month tell us something. When you have a glimplse at the first picture, it is almost sure you, or even for myself, can't figure out what functionality of the round stainless steel circle without the author's explanation. It is a device to force the people to queue up in the ticket-hall of Zhengzhou Train Station! What a shame! This device can only let one person to purchase his/her tickets at the ticket couter. When mentioning the guy standing-by in his hands holding a tea cup, the author preferred him a discipline supervisor or a companion of someone in the queue-up rather than.....(pickpocket?).
My fellow nationals, when will you equip yourself with those basic morals of a civilised society?
Technorati Tags: Queue-up, Train Station, Management, Chinese
seems that the pictures taken by a blogger in China when travelling to Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province in the middle of this month tell us something. When you have a glimplse at the first picture, it is almost sure you, or even for myself, can't figure out what functionality of the round stainless steel circle without the author's explanation. It is a device to force the people to queue up in the ticket-hall of Zhengzhou Train Station! What a shame! This device can only let one person to purchase his/her tickets at the ticket couter. When mentioning the guy standing-by in his hands holding a tea cup, the author preferred him a discipline supervisor or a companion of someone in the queue-up rather than.....(pickpocket?).
My fellow nationals, when will you equip yourself with those basic morals of a civilised society?
Technorati Tags: Queue-up, Train Station, Management, Chinese
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Can Berlusconi Win Italian General Election?
I suspected it. You can see what tricks he used to wanna allure voters? First, vowed to not have sex before 9 April. Now accused of China once in our Chairman Mao's era boiling babies with groundless facts, it is so weired behavior he has, so how Italian people can trust him? You can see here he is headaching! Italy, you needs Prodi! It's time for Berlusconi to step down!
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Tags: Berlusconi News Politics Italy General Election
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Tags: Berlusconi News Politics Italy General Election
US lost Caspar Weinberger
US lost their former Defense Secretary--Caspar Weinberger. He dies of peumonia just derived from his kidney dialysis after a couple years.
(photo cridets: AP)
Related readings: Ex-defence chief Weinberger dies
Caspar Weinberger, Defense Chief Under Reagan, Dies at 88
Tags: Caspar Weinberger, Defense Secretary, Pneumonia, News, Kidney Dialysis, Politics
Apple Corps sues Apple Inc.
AP | Jennifer Quin |
Technorati Tags: Apple, Lawsuit, Music, iPod, iTunes, Trademark, Beatle, Paul McCartney
wo legendary companies in the music industry are to meet Wednesday in a London courtroom to fight it out over what might be the world's most recognizable logo: A simple piece of fruit.
Apple Corps Ltd. , the Beatles' record company and guardian of the band's musical heritage and business interests, is suing Apple Computer Inc., claiming the company violated a 1991 agreement by entering the music business with its iTunes online music store.
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Monday, March 27, 2006
Official Google Blog Hacked
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Update: Official Google Blog came back!They were not hacked but just their URL was temporarily claimed by Trey Philips.
Tags:Google Hack Security Internet Technology Official Google Blog Trey Philips
Malaysia National Mosque
National Mosque of Malaysia, A nice architecture is worthy of being paid a visit.
Tags: Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Travelling Mosque Islam
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Saturday, March 25, 2006
RI-MAN Robot
The Japanese RI-MAN robot see left carries a life-sized doll at the Riken laboratory in Nagoya, central Japan. The RI-MAN humanoid is a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country's growing number of elderly. Xinhuanet
Tags: Japan Humanoid Robot Riken Research
Sony Details PlayStation 3's Network Services
Newsfactor.com | Walaika K. Haskins | 25. Mar, 06
While Sony has been tight-lipped about certain components of its next-generation PlayStation 3 gaming system, new information emerged last week at the Game Developers Conference.
During his keynote address at the show, Sony Computer Entertainment President Phil Harrison disclosed several details about the device, including that it will support an online gaming service, tentatively called the PlayStation Network Platform (PSNP), as well as movie and music downloads.
According to Harrison, PSNP will give PlayStation 3 users the ability to communicate directly with one another not only through instant messaging, but also through voice and video chat.
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Technorati Tags: Sony, PlayStation 3, Network Service, Video Chat, Online Gaming, Network Platform, PSNP
While Sony has been tight-lipped about certain components of its next-generation PlayStation 3 gaming system, new information emerged last week at the Game Developers Conference.
During his keynote address at the show, Sony Computer Entertainment President Phil Harrison disclosed several details about the device, including that it will support an online gaming service, tentatively called the PlayStation Network Platform (PSNP), as well as movie and music downloads.
According to Harrison, PSNP will give PlayStation 3 users the ability to communicate directly with one another not only through instant messaging, but also through voice and video chat.
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Technorati Tags: Sony, PlayStation 3, Network Service, Video Chat, Online Gaming, Network Platform, PSNP
Google’s Cache Function does not infringe any Copyright
Markenbusiness | rmb / juk
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An American online author of seduction advice has failed in a copyright action brought against Google. Gordon Roy Parker had accused the search machine of saving his Internet site, as well as Usenet contributions, using the cache function on its servers and then later placing them at the disposal of third parties as search results.
Google’s cache functions acts like an intermediate memory, which could allow sites to be called-up even if they are no longer online directly . The court in Pennsylvania were of the opinion that the automatically-operating memory caused no copyright infringement. The news agency Reuters report that the judges considered the cache function to be a form of redistribution of data. Google operated as an Internet service, transmitting data to users, and in the meantime saved data for this purpose.
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Google dominates UK's search markets
Numerous blog/news services ( here, here and here) cited WebsideStory's research results as saying: Google dominates UK's search markets referring an awesome percentage of ~75% web traffics to other websites in this Feburary. The remaining four follow-ups were Yahoo (9.30 percent), MSN (5.46 percent), AOL (4.21 percent) and Ask Jeeves (2.28 percent).
WebsideStory used its HBX Analytics (an Active Marketing Suite includes various softwares) to collect powerful data about website visitor behavior, online advertising, and email campaigns et al.
Tags: Google Search Engine WebsideStory Internet Technology
Brokeback Mountain 2---Google Love story
A Chinese blogger wrote a very funny Brokeback Mountain 2 --Google Loving Story in which Google's cofounders Larry and Brin were conceived as a pair of lovers.
Picture via Postshow
Tags: Brokeback Mountain Google Fun Love Story
Largest Laptop
DO you wanna know what looks like the Largest Laptop? Here you go! Snips from the report says:The laptop, displayed at the Time Warner Center in New York, measures more than 16 feet wide and 14 feet high, and will be examined by the Guinness Book of World Records, to determine if it is, in fact, the largest ever. The display is to help promote the launch of the In2TV online video channels.
The massive laptop, on which people can actually type with their feet, took 35 days to build with teams working around the clock. The computer was transported in pieces from Recom's office in Los Angeles to New York on a 53-foot truck.
Tags: Laptop Warner Bros AOL In2TV Internet Broadband Technology
Google Wedded to S&P 500
Google Joining S&P 500 brings Google shares a boost jumping $30.82 to $372.71on the Nasdaq stock market on Friday.
Google will be part of the benchmark index effective at the close of trade on 31 March, Standard & Poor's said. The inclusion is the latest milestone for the Silicon Valley upstart co-founded by two students and which today is one of most influential companies in the world. It also brings in a much sought after Wall Street recognition for the company, which embodies all that is unconventional. (EarthTimes.org)
Technorati Tags: Google, S&P 500, Index, Stock, Share
Harp seal in Peril
This lovely harp seal is in peril as Canada's annual seal hunt has begun, though amid international appeals for an end to the controversial cull. It is thrilled that Celebrities such as former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and his wife have joined animal rights groups in condemning the cull as barbaric and unnecessary. Anyway still sadly enough that 416,000 seal cubs will be killed according to a CNN report.
Technorati Tags: Seal, Canada, Hunter, Animal, Animal Rights Group, Paul McCartney
Manager of Microsoft Windows Division soon to Retire
Manager of Microsoft Windows Division is soon to RETIRE, according to the report of Microsoft Rearranges Windows Managers in Washtington Post:
Microsoft Corp. announced a major shakeup in its Windows division yesterday, just 48 hours after it disappointed consumers and PC makerswith a delay of its next operating system, Windows Vista.
Microsoft Corp. announced a major shakeup in its Windows division yesterday, just 48 hours after it disappointed consumers and PC makerswith a delay of its next operating system, Windows Vista.
The Redmond, Wash., software giant promoted a longtime manager of Microsoft Office, Steven J. Sinofsky, to take the helm of planning for future versions of Windows operating systems as head of the Windows and Windows Live group. James E. Allchin, a longtime Windows executive and the co-president of a broader division that includes Sinofsky's group, will step down at the end of the year in a previously announced retirement.
(Picture credit: Lauren Mcfalls - Bloomberg News)
Google published Title Unknown blog post?
Google published Title Unknown blog post or repeatedly published blog posts they published before? It hears so ridiculous, isn't it? But from the screenshots shown the left side (click to see the enlarged and highlighted parts), it seems that they really did do! It is almost sure that Google Reader which was just added a new functionality encounters some bugs again, which demonstrates Philip Jensen of Blogoscoped has his genuine suggestion for Google-- Google, Get the Bugs Worked Out First.
These two pictures are just snapped when I use Google Reader to read Official Google Blog posts on my laptop and find some errors occured-- Pug-speak was actually published on 10/March/06, but it re-appeared in the Reader on 22/March and 24/March; there is also a title unknown post on 22/March. According to my RSS subcripiton using Firefox's Live bookmark, there are no abnormalities happening.Tags:
Are Google facing Peril?
Philip Jessen's view and suggestion on Google's ever continuous expansion:Google’s biggest threat? It’s not Ballmer’s bluster. It’s not Semel’s visions of Hollywood grandeur. (Though you know he was digging Tomkat’s visit.) The biggest threat comes...from inside the Googleplex. If you start believing the hype...if you expand so much without paying attention to the things that got you there....you’re set up to fail. The Roman Empire tried expansion, and after awhile that didn’t work out.Goolge likes suggestion and feedback from its users. Will they take such suggestion seriously?
Google, you should slow the pace and quit rolling out widgets (oops, that’s Yahoo, sorry) every other week, slapping a beta sticker on ’em to excuse the lack of functionality. The masses are now duped into thinking “they call everything a beta, so that’s OK.” No, it’s not. We put our trust in your TS, so we deserve a basic level of service. Everytime Gmail fails, everytime there’s a Bob who gets his many mails unanswered (has anyone ever got anything but a template response from tech support?), you lose a little more of your user base.
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Amazing 1950's Audio Helmets
Berlusconi's Election Vow
Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, has once promised not to have sex until after the general election on April 9. Few can figure out any logic between making love and elections. Quite curious when learning such interesting vow! Anyway, such abstinence is soon to be finished as the election day is nearing. And the PM is sure to enjoy his romance again.:-)Tags: Berlusconi Italy Romance Sex Abstinence General Election News Politics
Friday, March 24, 2006
High Paying Keywords
Just find some high paying keywords as of March 23, 2005. from CyberWyre. Selected are some associating with Mesothelioma.
Tags: High Paying Keywords Advertising Adword
- $54.33 mesothelioma lawyers
- $47.79 what is mesothelioma
- $47.72 peritoneal mesothelioma
- $41.22 mesothelioma
- $34.34 mesothelioma texas
- $32.95 mesothelioma
- $29.68 malignant mesothelioma
- $18.53 mesothelioma support
Ben Domenech Rebut
Ben Domenech, an editor at a sister publishing company to HUMAN EVENTS, was accused of plagiarism by several politics-sensitive leftist's blogs and resigned from washingtonpost.com's Red American (see posts here and here) after he received excessive profanity shown in above snips from Red America Ends. Now Domenech stikes back! He writes:
Red America, my new blog at washingtonpost.com, has been under attack since its launch. It is a conservative blog on a mainstream media site, so many of the attacks were expected. If one bothers to read it, I believe it stands as a welcome addition to the opinion debate.
Red America, my new blog at washingtonpost.com, has been under attack since its launch. It is a conservative blog on a mainstream media site, so many of the attacks were expected. If one bothers to read it, I believe it stands as a welcome addition to the opinion debate. The hate mail that I have received since the launch of this blog has been overwhelmingly profane and violent. My family has been threatened; my friends have been deluged; my phone has been prank called. The most recent email that showed up while writing this post talked about how the author would like to hack off my head, and wishes my mother had aborted me.
But in the course of accusing me of racism, homophobia, bigotry, and even (on one extensive Atrios thread) of having a sexual relationship with my mother, the leftists shifted their accusations to ones of plagiarism. You can find the major examples here: I link to this source only because I believe it's the only place that hasn't yet written about how they'd like to rape my sister. .......
Adsense System Maintenance
Adsense System Maintainence is currently underway, with a 20-plus language notice here.The Google AdSense website is temporarily unavailable. Please try back later.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Google AdSense 网站暂时无法浏览。请您侍候再尝试。
对于造成您的不便我们感到抱歉。
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Q35, Smallest Dual-core Laptop
This smallest laptop is designed to run on Windows XP and has the T2700 Core Duo processor, an Intel 945GM chipset, an 80GB hard disk drive, and 512MB of 667MHz DDR 2 SDRAM and also a DVD burner.Its connectivity is with Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11a/b/g, and 10/100Mbps Ethernet. It has an HD audio system with SRS 3D technology, a six-in-one memory card reader, PC Card slot, FireWire and a couple of USB 2.0 ports. Battery life is pretty good at seven hours of juice. (link to Mobilewhack)
Tags: Samsung Laptop Dual-core Notebook Computer Bluetooth Windows XP
Man Convicted Over Cockler Deaths
This man together with his girlfriend and cousin was convicted of the manslaughter of the cocklers who drowned in February 2004. Link
Tags: Manslaughter Immgiration Gang England Law
Han Myung-sook
Han Myung-sook, a women's rights activist, nominated by President Ro Moo-hyun, is to be next South Korea's prime minister.
Han Myung-sook, center, is congraturated by other lawmakers following her nomination as new prime minister at a press conference at National Assembly in Seoul on Friday./AP-Yonhap 
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Tags: Korea Politics Han Myung-sook Women's Rights Activist
Han Myung-sook, center, is congraturated by other lawmakers following her nomination as new prime minister at a press conference at National Assembly in Seoul on Friday./AP-Yonhap LinkTags: Korea Politics Han Myung-sook Women's Rights Activist
Invention in Toilet
It seeems these days people have some wonderful ideas on toilet
utilities, air-cannon designed to fire rolls of toilet paper and the urinal installed pressure-sensitive pad which can display video game along with some nice music and be much appreciated by the gentlemen yet still caused one's concern of sex discrimination (how do ladies play this pad/game?).Here is a Bathroom blog, Go and Have fun!
Tags: invention toilet video Game pressure sensitive pad cannon
Kiss cellphone bills goodbye
Advertisers haver eyed smartphones as a new advertising platform. Israeli 3G cellphone users of mobile operator Orange are soon able to become the first customers in the world who can pay their bills via watching mobile advertisments. via PhysOrg.com
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Abdul Rahman, tragedy awaiting for him?
Abdul Rahman, an Muslim converted Christian in Afghan, now is facing a terrible trial--according to Sharia Law, he will probably be executed. What a tragedy for him! Even President Bush, Rice Express Concerns. Tags: Abdul Raham Islam Muslim Christian Christianity Religion News Afhgan Triall
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Samsung SGH-ZX10
Pcmag discribles "A truly modest introduction to Cingular's new high-speed network, the Samsung SGH-ZX10 is a midrange flip phone juiced up with the carrier's new video-clip service. Average users will enjoy its entertaining verve, but power users may be frustrated by its lack of high-end features."
Read the Samsung SGH-ZX10 full review here.Tags: Samsung Cingular handset Mobile Phone handphone Video Phone Smart Phone
Samsung Launches 32GB NAND Flash Solid State Disk
Samsung Electronics demonstrated on 21 March a notebook using the world's first 32-Gigabyte (GB) NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD) at the Samsung Mobile Solution Forum 2006 in Taipei, Taiwan. This huge 32GB Flash-SSD, which acts as replacement to a traditional hard disk drive, is a state-of-the-art data storage medium ideal for notebooks and other mobile devices because weighs only half as much as a comparably-sized hard drive, uses just five percent of the electricity needed to power a hard disc drive and is noiseless. In addition, the Samsung Flash-SSD is free of any motor or other mechanical parts and uses instantly-accessible, non-moving NAND flash memory to read data three times faster and write data 1.5 times faster than a hard disk drive. (Team Xbox)Related reading: Samsung debuts new 32GB Flash drive
Tags: Samsung NAND SSD Flash Memory Hard Disk Solid State Disk Notebook Laptop Computer Hardware
Bread is a major source of salt
The UK government watchdog the Food Standards Agency has announced targets for reducing salt in a range of food products. The move is designed to cut average daily salt intake in the diet, as too much salt is linked to high blood pressure, which in turn can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
BBCTags: Health Blood Pressure Salt Sodium Chloride Food Bread Mineral
Fish oils 'block prostate cancer'
A diet rich in a fat found in oily fish may protect men with prostate cancer from developing a more aggressive form of the disease, scientists have found.
Eating a diet with the right balance of omega-3 and omega-6 fats may well help to keep prostate cancer within the prostate gland 
Source: BBC
Tags: Health Fish Oil Cancer Prostate Prostate Cancer fish Salmon
Prostate cancer is much more likely to be life-threatening if tumour cells migrate and invade other tissues, such as the bone marrow.
Lab tests found omega-3 oil - present in fish like salmon - prevented this.
The results of the study, based at Manchester's Christie Hospital, are in the British Journal of Cancer.The Paterson Institute researchers tested the effect of two types of dietary fat on prostate cancer cells in the lab.
Previous research has suggested omega-3 fats, which is also found in mackerel and fresh tuna, may help cut the risk of cancer - and other conditions, such as heart disease.
Omega-6 fats, found in vegetable oils, nuts and seeds, also play a key role in keeping us healthy.
Eating a diet with the right balance of omega-3 and omega-6 fats may well help to keep prostate cancer within the prostate gland Noel Clarke
Source: BBC
Tags: Health Fish Oil Cancer Prostate Prostate Cancer fish Salmon
Japan nuclear plant fire
Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui got fire around around 6:40 p.m. (0940 GMT). Firefighters were battling a fire that broke out at a nuclear power plant facility in western Japan on Wednesday, but there was no radiation leakage, officials said. Two workers were injured. CNN>
Tags: Japan Nuclear Fire Firefighter Power Plant
Tags: Japan Nuclear Fire Firefighter Power Plant
Treating Depressed Moms Brightens Children's Lives
Treating mothers with depression can help their children as well, found researchers from the federally funded STAR*D study of therapies for depression.
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Tags: Maternal Depression Child Psychopathology Mother Medication Children Health Research
When depressed mothers achieve remission of their depression after three months on medication, the diagnoses and symptoms in their children of anxiety, disruptive behaviors, and depressive disorders also went down significantly, reported Myrna M. Weissman, Ph.D., of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and colleagues.(MedPageToday)
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
QQ Sausage and QQ Instant Noodles
QQ, the first choice of instant messenger among China's netizens, has 400 million registered users with active users 140 million. It is learned that the developer of QQ, Tencent Inc., has authorized a food company named Daqing Longheda to use its brandmark QQ and associated lovely penguin pictures develop and manufacuture QQ Sausage and QQ Instant Noodles, which are to be on markets in this coming May.
Via Postshow
Tags: QQ, IM, Tencent, Instant Messenger, Brandmark, Sausage, Instant Noodles
South Park petition: No, Tom Cruise, censorship is not awesome!
South Park petition: No, Tom Cruise, censorship is not awesome!: "Xeni Jardin: Supporters of South Park who've launched a web petition say:
On Wednesday, March 22, 2006, Comedy Central suddenly switched out episodes of South Park -- replacing the previously-scheduled 'Trapped in the Closet' without any explanation. According to a friend of mine (secretary for a certain company that owns Comedy Central), Tom Cruise has blackmailed the company into not showing the episode, which portrays him as a homosexual and his religion (Scientology) as a cult.
From Hollywood Interrupted:
'Sources from inside Paramount and South Park Studios report that parent company Viacom pulled last night's scheduled repeat of the high-rated 'Trapped in the Closet' episode after the humorless Scientologist movie star Tom Cruise threatened to cancel all publicity for Mission Impossible 3 if Comedy Central aired the episode that satirizes Scientology and mocks his sexuality again. Not only is this the first time that the South Park creators have been officially censored in their ten hit seasons with Comedy Central, Viacom officials also reportedly ordered Matt Stone and Trey Parker not to discuss the reason why their episode was cancelled.'
The creators have yet to comment, but Comedy Central has offered this explanation:
'In light of the events of earlier this week, we wanted to give "
On Wednesday, March 22, 2006, Comedy Central suddenly switched out episodes of South Park -- replacing the previously-scheduled 'Trapped in the Closet' without any explanation. According to a friend of mine (secretary for a certain company that owns Comedy Central), Tom Cruise has blackmailed the company into not showing the episode, which portrays him as a homosexual and his religion (Scientology) as a cult.
From Hollywood Interrupted:
'Sources from inside Paramount and South Park Studios report that parent company Viacom pulled last night's scheduled repeat of the high-rated 'Trapped in the Closet' episode after the humorless Scientologist movie star Tom Cruise threatened to cancel all publicity for Mission Impossible 3 if Comedy Central aired the episode that satirizes Scientology and mocks his sexuality again. Not only is this the first time that the South Park creators have been officially censored in their ten hit seasons with Comedy Central, Viacom officials also reportedly ordered Matt Stone and Trey Parker not to discuss the reason why their episode was cancelled.'
The creators have yet to comment, but Comedy Central has offered this explanation:
'In light of the events of earlier this week, we wanted to give "
Misaki Ito
Electric New Paper is introducing Misaki Ito--From Asahi Beer Ad Girl to Every Geek's Dream Girl!
Link
LinkSunday, March 19, 2006
ARPAnet, precursor of the Internet
"A 1972 documentary on ARPAnet, the early internet. A very interesting look at the beginnings of what is now a huge part of most of our lives," Steven King introduced here. Boing Boing made a brief introduction about this ARPAnet, "the precursor of the Internet, through interviews with the heroes of the internetworking revolution. Tightly wound internetworking geeks like the legendary JCR Licklider intensely recite the benefits that internetworking will shortly deliver, sliding in digs at the telecoms industry, the Bellheads who have no desire to see this future realized. This is a fantastic 30 minutes of paleo-nerd memorabilia." Have fun to watch this documentry video!
Tags: Goolge Video, Internet, Google, Video, Network
Tags: Goolge Video, Internet, Google, Video, Network
Bruce Lee Lost Interview
Bruce Lee, a Hollywood staring Chinese but not know Mandarin so well, was interviewed in 1971 on Pierre Burton Show talking about martial arts of Chinese Kung Fu. GVOD uploaded the below video clip to Google Video.
Bruce Lee Unltimate Collection!
Tags: bruce lee, google video, video, martial arts, Kung fu, television, interview
Bruce Lee Unltimate Collection!
Tags: bruce lee, google video, video, martial arts, Kung fu, television, interview
Adsense Tips
Receiving an email sent by alex{at}plusdatings.com to Google Groups "Adsense Publishers" Group titled AdSense optimization tips for blogs, I feel it quite worthy. I'd like to share those four tips with everybody:
I. First of all when starting to optimize a blog you must be familiar with HTML, PHP, CSS and how to manipulate the scripts you are using for blog publishing. Without knowing this, you will not be able to make things move the way you want. If you are not experienced web developer
try to hire a pro.
II. Do not put the ads to flood your page. This will make your visitors to close the pages, and you will lose more than you can win. Try to make your pages look clean and easy to read.
III. Test diferent styles, sizes, and colors for your ads. From my experience when you blend the ads with the content you will have more results. In these days the internet is saturated with banners, pop-ups, and other type of advertising. Most of the users don't like this. To make them click on the ads you must blend the ads with your content.
IV. Try to make ORIGINAL articles and posts. This will make your visitors come back.
There is also a hypelink in the mail.
Have one copy of the Adsense Code for yourself?
Tags: Google, Adsense tips, Advertising
I. First of all when starting to optimize a blog you must be familiar with HTML, PHP, CSS and how to manipulate the scripts you are using for blog publishing. Without knowing this, you will not be able to make things move the way you want. If you are not experienced web developer
try to hire a pro.
II. Do not put the ads to flood your page. This will make your visitors to close the pages, and you will lose more than you can win. Try to make your pages look clean and easy to read.
III. Test diferent styles, sizes, and colors for your ads. From my experience when you blend the ads with the content you will have more results. In these days the internet is saturated with banners, pop-ups, and other type of advertising. Most of the users don't like this. To make them click on the ads you must blend the ads with your content.
IV. Try to make ORIGINAL articles and posts. This will make your visitors come back.
There is also a hypelink in the mail.
Have one copy of the Adsense Code for yourself?
Tags: Google, Adsense tips, Advertising
Saturday, March 18, 2006
A Parental Advice Internet Site Sues Google
Kinderstart.com, a parent advice website filed a lawsuit against Google recently over its lower page ranking on the search engine. Snips from Reuters:
A parental advice Internet site has sued Google Inc., charging it unfairly deprived the company of customers by downgrading its search-result ranking without reason or warning.
The lawsuit notes that rival search systems from Microsoft Corp.'s MSN and Yahoo Inc. feature Kinderstart.com at the top of their rankings when the name "Kinderstart" is typed in.
Tags: Google, Lawsuit, Kinderstart, parental+advice
A parental advice Internet site has sued Google Inc., charging it unfairly deprived the company of customers by downgrading its search-result ranking without reason or warning.
The lawsuit notes that rival search systems from Microsoft Corp.'s MSN and Yahoo Inc. feature Kinderstart.com at the top of their rankings when the name "Kinderstart" is typed in.
The complaint accuses Google, as the dominant provider of Web searches, of violating KinderStart's constitutional right to free speech by blocking search engine results showing Web site content and other communications.
The suit was filed the same day a federal judge denied a U.S. government request that Google be ordered to hand over a sample of keywords customers use to search the Internet while requiring the company to produce some Web addresses indexed in its system.
Read MoreTags: Google, Lawsuit, Kinderstart, parental+advice
"I've seen the Bukit Batok video"
T-shirts emblazoned I've seen the Bukit Batok video characters are sold on Cafepress.comDo you think anyboby is going to buy such T-shirt?
Tags: Bukit batok video
Death Penalty
This well-known billionaire in China named Yuan Baojing was gifted capital punishment for hiring his brother and cousins to murder Wang Xing in 2003. Wang once suggested the billionaire to "punish" Liu Han who was accused of manipulating a broker to cause his company to lose nearly 100 million yuan in Sichuan Province by Yuan. Contract killer Li Haiyang missed shooting Liu to death in 1997. However, since then Wang repeatedly require money from Yuan and threatened to blow the whistle on his crime of organizing the attempted murder, which resulted in his own murdering by Yuan's complices later.Yuan, a Liaoyang native, and an ex-graduate of China University of Political Science and Law, registered his Beijing Jianhao Industrial Development Company at the investing capital of 200,000 Yuan in Beijing's Huairou District in 1992. Within six months, he made more than 2 million yuan (US$249,000) of profits. Then he invested in the securities and bonds markets before acquiring more than 60 companies. His assets were valued at more than 3 billion yuan as of 1996.
All lives are equal and invaluable under the umbrella of the law, no more money can save Yuan's life which is priced at the handsome sum of 49.5 billion yuan (US$6 billion).
(Picture host: http://news.sohu.com)
Tags: death penalty, Capital Punishment, Murder
Friday, March 17, 2006
Kaifu Lee’s Beijing Cuisines
As I promised earlier, I finished translating Dr. Lee's Beijing Cuisines at Google China Blog. I thought his article is quite interesting, noteworthy of being read by not only Chinese-savvy readers, but also their non-Chinese speaking counterparts. As Dr. Lee also mentioned in his post --Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, that's why I rendered his post from Chinese to English--let the readers all over the world to know something happening in Google China. I think, once one completes reading my English post, most of them will be envy Google's Welfare for its employees--"Acquiring a person's stomach is to acquire his heart"!
Google is always famous for its tasty food. Two classical Chinese proverbs, regardless of "the food is what matters to the people" or "Acquiring a person's stomach is to acquire his heart", both fully conforms to the Google Culture. Back in China— the world's most delicate food heaven, we must carry forward well this traditional gourmets culture.
Speaking of gourmets, I am very embarrassed because I am a gormandizer among Google gourmets. When I was staying in California, my colleagues dare not consult with me about where we could go for a meal, because the place I suggested was basically either far away or difficult to be found. Last time, two of them let me propose that, we drove nearly an hour to eat the sauce braised fish head, after having those tasty dishes served first, we could not instead eat up the fish head which was complained a lot by me. While those two still gluttonized it while neglecting my complaining. Anyway, I already began telling of how to making “Chili Oil Won Ton” before we left the restaurant, which they felt so unbelievable! Then living in Seattle, I used to drive cross-border for three hours to the Vancouver to stay one night on weekends. Afterwards, my friends might ask what I have done, my answer is very simple: eating, digesting, eating again, digesting again, eating again, then going back home. No famous cuisines in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taibei, California Bay Area, New York, Vancouver and Seattle are not known by me!
Then how about Beijing? Doesn’t Google China really wanna hire the Master Chef? Yes, of course, Google does do. Once the Master Chef is found, we employees at Google may have the most delicious food without having to go outside. In the past several months we temporarily based in CBD, now we has moved the temporary work place in S &T Garden of Tsinghua University, but the company’s cafeteria is yet to be constructed. How can we do? Google feels very sorry for its talented staffs, we therefore drew up a regulation during this transition period—everyday everybody can go to the restaurant to have the meal, Google pays the bills. That’s why I took the full advantage of this regulation and got the opportunities to taste so many delicious cuisines in Beijing. Now, in order to respond Google’s mission “organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", I am providing here with the information congregated from my personal eating experiences in the multitudinous Beijing restaurants:
• NO.1 Chang An (长安一号)- a small cafe inside Beijing Grand Hyatt Hotel. If someone hadn’t reserved the seat in advance, there must be no free seat available. Here roasted Beijing ducks are extremely delicious with skins being fragrant and crisp; pancakes are thin and soft. Stuffed dumplings, pot-stickers both are also very nice. Certainly, their sesame seed cakes clamping foie gras and plum sauce must be tasted.
• Heron-Heron Wineshop (鹭鹭酒家) – the Beijing branch of a Shanghai restaurant. Although they acknowledged their dishes are a little of Beijing flavors, but still quite Shanghai featuring. The best serve here is fried lunar-new-year's cake with Chinese mitten crab (other lunar-new- year's cakes are also ok, but must be hand-made and very thick). Sweet and sour spareribs, vegetable-stuffed steamed buns, thick bread and so on are also good.
• Cafeteria of Sichuan Agency in Beijing (四川驻京办事处餐厅)– Beijing’s most typical Sichuan cuisines, all of its recipes are very delicious, but just unusual hemp and spicy. If someone could not eat spicily, he will not be able to have the good fortune to enjoy something. Business is very good and must reserved first.
• Lugang Small Town （鹿港小镇） – Beijing’s best Taiwan recipes. Three Cup Chicken, Sausages are very tasty.
• Smart Chiangnan (俏江南)– Tough it is chain-like, but its "new-style-Sichuan-cuisines" is quite special. Other famous recipes includes: Lake-stone rolling beef (Jiang Shi Gun Fei Niu), pig elbow, sweet peas, re-cooked fish, naked oats with sesame jam and so on.
• Famous Porch (明轩楼) – a Shanghai-featuring restaurant situated the 31st floor of New Century Hotel. Very native but expensive. Fermented glutinous rice rockfish, foie gras, sheet-iron pig neck meat and Chinese-style beefsteak are all delicious.
• Big-House Gate (大宅门)-- though the food is not specially prominent, the performance is the most appreciated by our foreign colleagues (Sichuan Faces, Shouldering Against Cylinder). Very fragrant and thick fish soup, cold dish with wild herbs folded to the pyramid-shape are nice. Fried sweet-potato putty is very well too.
• Big Dong （大董）--Famous for the roasted ducks. If to entertain distinguished guests, may try the rice with cod, or the noodle with lobster. Both two are very special.
• Li Chang (黎昌) – To introduce recipes must introduce Cantonese cuisines. Li Chang is the best Cantonese cuisines in Beijing, but truly speaking, it was compromised a lot when compared to the orthodox Hong Kong counterparts.
• East Sea （东海）—Guangdong-style tea-drinkings of East Sea cannot compete with those of Hong Kong, but they are of good qualities yet with a low-price, normally just cost a bit more than 20 Yuan.
• Friday Dining Room (TGIFriday' s, 星期五餐厅) -- I like having the Chinese meal, but my children require that I have to enlist TGIF they like the most. Roasted pig spareribs there are truly nice, some appetizers are worth being tasted.
Instant food and sweet snacks: Japanese-style hand-pulled noodles of Thousand-Tastes (Wei Qian), Chinese-style instant food of Da Cheng which accomplishes via imitating Yonghe (the pupil surpasses the teacher) (beef noodles very good), Kentuckey's Portuguese-style egg flogs (every time I go there and buy a dozen, which are to finished by the whole family within two days), Bread of the Pacific Department Store and Soaked lotus in the first floor of the Eastern Square.
The followings are several of the restaurants which are my colleague Guo Quji recommends, and I ‘d like to share them with you all:
• Yuelu Mountain House (岳麓山屋) – Yuelu Mountain House at Houhai is Hunan cuisines as the name suggests (Yuelu normally refers to Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province), the most characteristic is the sauce pepper fish head, served together with noodles, after the fish head is eaten up, noodles are mingled with the soup left, and tasted micro spicy but delicious. Hand-ripped garlic shoots (garlic liver moss) in the cold dish, is extremely tasty and refreshing. With regarding to the drinkings, the rice wine is very nice.
Tea-Horse Ancient Road (茶马古道) – Yunnan cuisine in the SOHO modern city. To my own viewpoint, the most delicious is its fungus hot-pots (steam-bowls). Soups made up from with numerous kinds of Yunnan's wild fungus, are extremely tasty. The best funguses are probably Pine Mushroom and Bamboo Sheng.
• Su Zhehui (苏浙汇 )– it is located at Chaoyang District. Its honey-ham made up from very good ham with honey and husked lotus, has the perfect salty-sweet and fragrance-delicacy combination and is thus very tasty. In addition, yellow-bridge sesame seed cake (Huang Qiao Shao Bing) among the snacks is worth being tasted.
• Nanjing Grand Restaurant (南京大饭店) – A cafeteria of Agency of Nanjing City Government in Beijing behind the Wangfujing Department Store, seldom has been known. Actually its salty wild duck and steamed lion heads (pork balls) are well done, and shrimp-heptacreas bean curd is also very specially (other restaurants usually have crab-heptopancreas/ovary bean curd).
• Danieli's – an Italian restaurant in International Club Hotel, food are good and there are also many choices. The noodle with lobster is espeicially the recommendation!
It has been several months since I moved to Beijing. I already put on the weight of around 4 kilogram . If you have the healthy cuisines with low calories, don’t hesitate to introduce them to me! :)
Tags: Google, Google Culture, Google China, Kaifu Lee
Google is always famous for its tasty food. Two classical Chinese proverbs, regardless of "the food is what matters to the people" or "Acquiring a person's stomach is to acquire his heart", both fully conforms to the Google Culture. Back in China— the world's most delicate food heaven, we must carry forward well this traditional gourmets culture.
Speaking of gourmets, I am very embarrassed because I am a gormandizer among Google gourmets. When I was staying in California, my colleagues dare not consult with me about where we could go for a meal, because the place I suggested was basically either far away or difficult to be found. Last time, two of them let me propose that, we drove nearly an hour to eat the sauce braised fish head, after having those tasty dishes served first, we could not instead eat up the fish head which was complained a lot by me. While those two still gluttonized it while neglecting my complaining. Anyway, I already began telling of how to making “Chili Oil Won Ton” before we left the restaurant, which they felt so unbelievable! Then living in Seattle, I used to drive cross-border for three hours to the Vancouver to stay one night on weekends. Afterwards, my friends might ask what I have done, my answer is very simple: eating, digesting, eating again, digesting again, eating again, then going back home. No famous cuisines in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taibei, California Bay Area, New York, Vancouver and Seattle are not known by me!
Then how about Beijing? Doesn’t Google China really wanna hire the Master Chef? Yes, of course, Google does do. Once the Master Chef is found, we employees at Google may have the most delicious food without having to go outside. In the past several months we temporarily based in CBD, now we has moved the temporary work place in S &T Garden of Tsinghua University, but the company’s cafeteria is yet to be constructed. How can we do? Google feels very sorry for its talented staffs, we therefore drew up a regulation during this transition period—everyday everybody can go to the restaurant to have the meal, Google pays the bills. That’s why I took the full advantage of this regulation and got the opportunities to taste so many delicious cuisines in Beijing. Now, in order to respond Google’s mission “organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", I am providing here with the information congregated from my personal eating experiences in the multitudinous Beijing restaurants:
• NO.1 Chang An (长安一号)- a small cafe inside Beijing Grand Hyatt Hotel. If someone hadn’t reserved the seat in advance, there must be no free seat available. Here roasted Beijing ducks are extremely delicious with skins being fragrant and crisp; pancakes are thin and soft. Stuffed dumplings, pot-stickers both are also very nice. Certainly, their sesame seed cakes clamping foie gras and plum sauce must be tasted.
• Heron-Heron Wineshop (鹭鹭酒家) – the Beijing branch of a Shanghai restaurant. Although they acknowledged their dishes are a little of Beijing flavors, but still quite Shanghai featuring. The best serve here is fried lunar-new-year's cake with Chinese mitten crab (other lunar-new- year's cakes are also ok, but must be hand-made and very thick). Sweet and sour spareribs, vegetable-stuffed steamed buns, thick bread and so on are also good.
• Cafeteria of Sichuan Agency in Beijing (四川驻京办事处餐厅)– Beijing’s most typical Sichuan cuisines, all of its recipes are very delicious, but just unusual hemp and spicy. If someone could not eat spicily, he will not be able to have the good fortune to enjoy something. Business is very good and must reserved first.
• Lugang Small Town （鹿港小镇） – Beijing’s best Taiwan recipes. Three Cup Chicken, Sausages are very tasty.
• Smart Chiangnan (俏江南)– Tough it is chain-like, but its "new-style-Sichuan-cuisines" is quite special. Other famous recipes includes: Lake-stone rolling beef (Jiang Shi Gun Fei Niu), pig elbow, sweet peas, re-cooked fish, naked oats with sesame jam and so on.
• Famous Porch (明轩楼) – a Shanghai-featuring restaurant situated the 31st floor of New Century Hotel. Very native but expensive. Fermented glutinous rice rockfish, foie gras, sheet-iron pig neck meat and Chinese-style beefsteak are all delicious.
• Big-House Gate (大宅门)-- though the food is not specially prominent, the performance is the most appreciated by our foreign colleagues (Sichuan Faces, Shouldering Against Cylinder). Very fragrant and thick fish soup, cold dish with wild herbs folded to the pyramid-shape are nice. Fried sweet-potato putty is very well too.
• Big Dong （大董）--Famous for the roasted ducks. If to entertain distinguished guests, may try the rice with cod, or the noodle with lobster. Both two are very special.
• Li Chang (黎昌) – To introduce recipes must introduce Cantonese cuisines. Li Chang is the best Cantonese cuisines in Beijing, but truly speaking, it was compromised a lot when compared to the orthodox Hong Kong counterparts.
• East Sea （东海）—Guangdong-style tea-drinkings of East Sea cannot compete with those of Hong Kong, but they are of good qualities yet with a low-price, normally just cost a bit more than 20 Yuan.
• Friday Dining Room (TGIFriday' s, 星期五餐厅) -- I like having the Chinese meal, but my children require that I have to enlist TGIF they like the most. Roasted pig spareribs there are truly nice, some appetizers are worth being tasted.
Instant food and sweet snacks: Japanese-style hand-pulled noodles of Thousand-Tastes (Wei Qian), Chinese-style instant food of Da Cheng which accomplishes via imitating Yonghe (the pupil surpasses the teacher) (beef noodles very good), Kentuckey's Portuguese-style egg flogs (every time I go there and buy a dozen, which are to finished by the whole family within two days), Bread of the Pacific Department Store and Soaked lotus in the first floor of the Eastern Square.
The followings are several of the restaurants which are my colleague Guo Quji recommends, and I ‘d like to share them with you all:
• Yuelu Mountain House (岳麓山屋) – Yuelu Mountain House at Houhai is Hunan cuisines as the name suggests (Yuelu normally refers to Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province), the most characteristic is the sauce pepper fish head, served together with noodles, after the fish head is eaten up, noodles are mingled with the soup left, and tasted micro spicy but delicious. Hand-ripped garlic shoots (garlic liver moss) in the cold dish, is extremely tasty and refreshing. With regarding to the drinkings, the rice wine is very nice.
Tea-Horse Ancient Road (茶马古道) – Yunnan cuisine in the SOHO modern city. To my own viewpoint, the most delicious is its fungus hot-pots (steam-bowls). Soups made up from with numerous kinds of Yunnan's wild fungus, are extremely tasty. The best funguses are probably Pine Mushroom and Bamboo Sheng.
• Su Zhehui (苏浙汇 )– it is located at Chaoyang District. Its honey-ham made up from very good ham with honey and husked lotus, has the perfect salty-sweet and fragrance-delicacy combination and is thus very tasty. In addition, yellow-bridge sesame seed cake (Huang Qiao Shao Bing) among the snacks is worth being tasted.
• Nanjing Grand Restaurant (南京大饭店) – A cafeteria of Agency of Nanjing City Government in Beijing behind the Wangfujing Department Store, seldom has been known. Actually its salty wild duck and steamed lion heads (pork balls) are well done, and shrimp-heptacreas bean curd is also very specially (other restaurants usually have crab-heptopancreas/ovary bean curd).
• Danieli's – an Italian restaurant in International Club Hotel, food are good and there are also many choices. The noodle with lobster is espeicially the recommendation!
It has been several months since I moved to Beijing. I already put on the weight of around 4 kilogram . If you have the healthy cuisines with low calories, don’t hesitate to introduce them to me! :)
Tags: Google, Google Culture, Google China, Kaifu Lee
Thursday, March 16, 2006
i-Newswire punished by Google
i-Newswire, who published a press release (click here to see a screenshot) saying a 15-year-boy was hired by Google, was punished and removed as a source for the automated news service by Google News, according to numuerous sources (Inside Google, SEW, IW). The boy himself wanna to fool Google's News service and making such ripplings already appologized for Google. His post reads:
It all begun a few days ago.
I was looking around on http://digg.com, and came across an interesting submission showing how to fool google's news system. Me being the curious person I am, read the article and proceeded to try it. Anyone who knows me in real life knows that I am the biggest google fanboy ever. I mean hell, I even dressed up as Larry Page (Google him :) for halloween. Wanting to fool a few friends, I submitted an article using the method that was provided. I entered my email (tom.vendetta@gmail.com, go ahead spam it... ). I never got any email from the news website, so I figured it never went through. I used all fake information and forgot about it. It wasnt until around 10:35 pm that I received an instant message from MAKEBot ( a bot that sends the latest digg posts ) what did I see? "Google Hires 15 year old". At that moment, i felt my stomach knot up and my heart drop. I knew exactly what happened and knew that I would end up regretting posting that. I am now truley regretting it. My gmail account now has 130 unread email messages, as opposed to the 5 i normally get daily. My myspace has tons of friends requests, as opposed to the 3 i get monthly. This is all going out of control and I am regretting every bit of it.
To all the digg users, I am sorry for making you think this was true. I never intended for it to be submitted. I never intended for anyone besides my friends to find it.
To google, I am sorry for making a false claim and I can only hope that this will help resolve the bug, so that no one else does something like I did, because they will end up regretting it, as I am now.
I geuss all my dreams and hopes of getting a job at Google have officially been demolished.
I geuss everything else has been demolished. I just tryed signing onto my aim screename, and geuss what? I got so many messages it crashed aim.exe. GREAT!
To wrap things up:
I AM SORRY.
Thank you for listening , and I truley do apologize.
Tags: Google News, i-Newswire, Tom Vendetta
It all begun a few days ago.
I was looking around on http://digg.com, and came across an interesting submission showing how to fool google's news system. Me being the curious person I am, read the article and proceeded to try it. Anyone who knows me in real life knows that I am the biggest google fanboy ever. I mean hell, I even dressed up as Larry Page (Google him :) for halloween. Wanting to fool a few friends, I submitted an article using the method that was provided. I entered my email (tom.vendetta@gmail.com, go ahead spam it... ). I never got any email from the news website, so I figured it never went through. I used all fake information and forgot about it. It wasnt until around 10:35 pm that I received an instant message from MAKEBot ( a bot that sends the latest digg posts ) what did I see? "Google Hires 15 year old". At that moment, i felt my stomach knot up and my heart drop. I knew exactly what happened and knew that I would end up regretting posting that. I am now truley regretting it. My gmail account now has 130 unread email messages, as opposed to the 5 i normally get daily. My myspace has tons of friends requests, as opposed to the 3 i get monthly. This is all going out of control and I am regretting every bit of it.
To all the digg users, I am sorry for making you think this was true. I never intended for it to be submitted. I never intended for anyone besides my friends to find it.
To google, I am sorry for making a false claim and I can only hope that this will help resolve the bug, so that no one else does something like I did, because they will end up regretting it, as I am now.
I geuss all my dreams and hopes of getting a job at Google have officially been demolished.
I geuss everything else has been demolished. I just tryed signing onto my aim screename, and geuss what? I got so many messages it crashed aim.exe. GREAT!
To wrap things up:
I AM SORRY.
Thank you for listening , and I truley do apologize.
Tags: Google News, i-Newswire, Tom Vendetta
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