iPod Nano

Got my iPod Nano today!!!

ArsTechnica has an excellent review about Nano. They actually broke the thing and did an Autopsy - Well, sure it will make some weird mature men to cry!

Another interesting news from Business Week talking about the Nano from business perspective....

Here are some pictures of my nano...Oh, and I can't wait to buy a THONG for my Nano....Hahaha.....=)

蓑

前几天口腔溃疡, 最近感冒, 今天更?...停车转弯的时候被后面的车刮了一下, 后保险扛坏了...赔款还在追帐中...烦!

处女的笑话集 (成人喜怒篇)

声明: 如果你看了笑话乐死, 本人不负责...

中年男子在暗巷抢劫一名老处女，一阵搜寻后，中年男子摇头：“你身上有没有珍贵东西？”
“ 有。”老处女涨红了脸急促道：“我是个处女！”

一个女孩，到了天堂门口，圣彼得问：你是处女吗？
她说：这当然！
但是圣彼得检查她的处女膜时，却现了7个轻微的小洞。
于是守门员问她叫名字。
她答：我叫“白雪公主”。

西安出差，看别人吃炸鸡腿和红色的番茄酱……于是就要了一份儿……买单时……小姐对我叫着……先生要的《处女第一夜》12元……

一人结婚数次,发现妻子都不是处女,便离.不知怎识别处女,请教友,友说:“新婚之夜,掏出家伙她识别,认得,不是处女,反之则 是.”大喜.及至又婚,掏出家伙问妻:“识吗?”妻摇头,再问,依然.乃兴奋告之:“此乃球也.”妻大惊,说:“这么短小的东西也算球?我见过的都比你的 又大又长.”　

有一个寡妇要再出嫁了，她要求有很多聘金，媒婆就劝她说：“再嫁和初婚不一样，谁愿出这么高的聘金去娶个二手货呢？”寡妇说：“我 还是个处女，未曾破过身。”媒婆说：“都已嫁过人了，有谁会相信呢？”寡妇说：“实不相瞒，先生的阳具短小，因此我只有在外面的半截是已婚的，里边其实还 是个处女。”"

一位老处女找来一位年轻律师写遗嘱。
她说：『我手上有一百万元，我打算花八十万元在我的葬礼上。
生前，镇上没有人理我；死后，我要每个人都看看我辉煌的葬礼。』
律师说：『那还有二十万元呢？』
老处女说：『这辈子从没有人爱我，但我打算死前用这二十万元领略
一次燕好的滋 味.....』
律师回家后便和太太谈起此事，律师太太便劝先生自告奋勇，毕竟，
二十万元不是小数目。
第二天，两人便开车前往老处女家，
律师下车后，叫她太太二个小时以后来接他....
两个小时后，律师太太左等右等，先生还不现身，便猛按汽车喇叭，一会儿
后，律师自窗口探出头道：『四天后再来接我，她决定丧事从简....... 』

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XBox 360 coming to shelf on Nov 22nd.

I Can't Image how many people will be lined up at BestBuy/Fry's for the XBox 360 when it is born to earth on Nov. 22nd...Just a few days before the Thanksgiving - peferct as a memorable gift!

I didn't Microsoft actually created a dedicated a website just for XBox 360's H/W. It's also important to point out of that the game console has more horsepower than any desktop I ever played/used:

3.2Ghz CPU with 1Mb of L2 cache, 512MB of 700MHz GDDR3 RAM, 500M Triangles/Sec. Wi-Fi/Ethernet supports, over 256 audio channels...You name it! More importantly, at least one of the which_one_is_the_next_generation_DVD is finally moving out. Microsoft teamworked with Toshiba to support HD-DVD for their next gen. game console.

I heard MSFT would charge $350 for this package, with optional 40GB HDD. I bet if any one can heck this thing and convert it to a desktop, the PC shipments in the states and Japan will drop dramatically. There is no way one can buy a equivallent equipment desktop at this price, and I don't really believe MSFT makes any penny out of the box...Oh well, do they really make lots of profit on the games? Not on today's Xbox.

Nevertheless, it still show Bill's efforts as Microsoft is definitely moving full-throttle in this market. I can't wait to see the next gen. of PS3, and Ican't wait to see how MSFT will wrestle Sony!

Fodora Bootloader (GRUG) mystery

I tried to install Fedora on an external USB drive last night, and it still didn’t work out. Then I made a big mistake by deciding to install Fedora using the “free space” on my Windows hardware. The hard drive partition was then incorrectly done, and I had to recover the whole system today, for 10 straight hours. Finally, it’s all done. I created a 20GB partition for Fedora, and the system was installed perfectly. Well, almost perfectly. Fedora’s boot loader (GRUB) chooses hd(0,0) as the default “Other” OS. The problem is, Compaq’s recovery disk puts its recovery section (D:\ Drive) in this partition, and whenever GRUB tries to boot from “Other”, Compaq’s recovery session is loaded instead of Windows XP. I still couldn’t figure out why ? This has been a nightmare. I’ve installed Red Hat 3 years ago on my old Pentium III, and it was damn good and very well self-configured. Not sure what went wrong with Fedora though.

I tried to “force” GRUB to use the command “rootnoverify (hd0,1) /n chainloader +1” instead of “rootnoverify (hd0,0) /n Chainloader +1”, which is default at the moment. The commands I used are “GRUG> rootnoverify (hd0,1) save” and “GRUG> rootnoverify (hd),1) savedefault”, but they didn’t work. =(

Anyways, until I find the solution to this challenge, I will just have to keep modifying the stupid command line in order to boot Windows XP…

San Diego Downtown

Taking a walk in San Diego downtown after a fantastic dinner would be one of the finest things you’d like to do.  And I did it.

I went to San Diego zoo on July 18.  Although I’m not a 10 years old boy anymore, it still interests me seeing many kinds of animals on the same day.  Of course, that includes human beings. =)  There are lions, polar bears, monkeys, camels, bongos, giraffes, rhinos, zebras, tigers and snakes -- you name it.  Not to mention the Sea Lion Show several times during the day.  Thereafter, I drove to San Diego downtown.  There is a Brazilian restaurant called “Rei do Gado” at 4th Ave. and Broadway St. (I heard it from a friend.)  In simple words, it’s a steak house.  The food was absolutely fantastic with excellent services.  The best thing I liked was the Brazilian cocktail special.  After eating too much that I had to take a walk in Downtown, that’s where all the fun begun.

To me, San Diego downtown displays a combination of Mexican cultures and American revolution.  I’m sure there are 80 some restaurants on 4th and 5th Ave. alone, southward from Broadway.  Most of them are either Mexican or Brazilian style with their own uniqueness.  Enjoying the music while walking down the streets with views Mexican style buildings.  Another place worth to mention is the Horton Plaza on 4th Ave.  It’s a nicely constructed mall with an interesting structure.  Although seems not a big place from the outside, you can easily get lost on the shopping trip.  Right at downtown, there is San Diego Convention Center constructed as a long glass-made train lies along the waterside.  Take the elevator to the top, you can see the bay area while enjoying a beautiful sunset.  Two aircraft carriers parked at the San Diego bay, one of them is opened to the public as a museum.  I will definitely go there once I have another chance to go to downtown.

airport

Well, there’s nothing worse than typing up a blog on your laptop inside an airport…hmm, that’s what I’m doing right now. It’s been very busy since I started my full time job. Living in the United States becomes a quite difficult thing to do now, because of the “home land security” implementation. It took me almost three weeks to get my SSN, and some banks refused to open an account for me until I get that stupid number, not to mention my ZERO credit history in the states that credit card companies turned me down just like I’m a homeless man on the street.

And now, I’m flying to San Diego to start my 4 weeks of applications training. I feel OK to leave my apartment because I have nothing left behind. Within that lovely 560 square feet apartment, the only “furniture” that belongs to me is my King-size mattress and boxes. BTW, I didn’t buy them from a store. I “picked them up” from a hotel garbage station. My wife is not here with me because she needs to apply for an American Visa. It happens once in a while that I feel not like to home after work because I have nothing to do but having my dinner on the floor…No, I don’t have table.

It’s too late when I realized that I left my mp3 player and the headphone in the bag that I checked in. So I can’t listen my own music while I’m waiting for the plane to come. It’s funny that the Jazz they play inside the SJC airport makes me feel that I’m falling asleep. Well, I think I should just stop here before I drop my laptop onto the floor.