Order was placed. I am expecting to get my new MacBook Air 13′ with i7 cpu this weekend.
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Please note that one of the rules of Quora is that it is English-only for now…
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First of all, Google Reader is not for everybody. It’s not as simple as iPhone. Users need to be intellectual enough to grasp it, though they don’t have to be smart.
Secondly, it has built-in support for Chinese user to work around the GFW. The only thing you need to do is always using it through https. What’s https? Please refer to Rule No. 1.
Everything you do will be stored in cloud-side. You don’t need to worry about system reinstallaion and hard disk failure any more.
And it’s social. You can share good stuffs, and know what your friends are sharing.
And it’s mobile ready. Actually reading on mobile phone is more fun.
“Hey, please lower your voice.” a girl said while some guy was talking loudly about a former president of China, whose death led to a very huge demonstration and a massacre. “It’s OK,” he replied, “I’m no celebrity. The government won’t bother to do anything to me.”
This conversation sends two messages:
1) The fear of public expression of political viewpoints is planted to many people’s hearts.
2) It’s safe to criticize our government when you are nobody. But if you become famous, that could be another story.
……
catch (UntilYouMeetSomeRealBadAssException e) {
A taxi driver told me last week: One of his friend, also a taxi driver, once said something stupid, maybe critizing the system, the party or anything that annoyed his passengers. His passengers happened to be some national security officials. He later got called back to his taxi center, some officials waiting for him. And he got locked up for 48 hours.
}
2010.3.2 Found the medical record I’d brought belonged to my wife while entering the doctor’s office.
.info domain name is really cheap on Godaddy.com, which is only 1$ per year. I got one, raymondchen.info, for my Chinese version blog.
Setting it up is also easy. I don’t have to transfer the domain to BH. Parking it will suffice.
Some podcasts I subscribed are blocked by the government. So I have to enable proxy to download them, which is much slower. I’m thinking to write a small program to download them autommatically on my blog space, and modify the seed content to redirect them to the new adddresses. It’s not very difficult. Just need some time. And I’ve to pick up PHP again.
I don’t know why I just could not find how to customize DNS record in the cPanel. It suddenly popped up just now.
Like it or not, Internet has already changed and will keep changing our world. We had a sense of it when we first hop on the information highway. But we never imagined the impact would be so deep and so quick. It’s not just about searching information becoming much easier.
I’ve been through the era of PC popularity and then of Internet popularity. From priate music resellers and the legal music producer, we can see the difference. In the PC era, they sell CD’s, and the pirates sell illegal copies. But in a matter of several years, nobody buy the pirate CD’s. Because it’s too easy to get them from Internet. If you want a legal copy, go to iTune Store. Or you could search it thru some P2P software. If you ever think selling pirate CD will be your lifetime job, think again.
The book publishers seem not to get it. I bumped into stupid district restriction here and there when doing some online shopping. It’s outdated, especially for the goods that are in electronic form. And the publishers know it, they just don’t want to let go some old rules. And some online book stores just apply lax check on buyer region, which de factoly cirmcumvent the restriction.
It really scares some people that the boundaries disappear all in a sudden. But for those who are born without such old boundaries, it’s just the norm of their age.
