I am currently revising the final draft of my dissertation. After a revision and some changes to the bibliography, it will be ready for printing and mailing for scrutiny. Read more »
Two paintings
Often times when I use my computer, my son will come to my desk and try to get my attention. He sometimes grabs the mouse and demands either to play games or draw a picture. Read more »
Breaking Bad: fly
I must write this post to get over my batch of Breaking Bad posts. There are three seasons of it so far so I figure I should write three posts to match it. It is weird thoughts indeed. Read more »
Breaking Bad: cancerous motive
The motive is the key to the action of any character in a story. To make the whole story plausible and intriguing, the character should have a burning feeling of life and has to act in one way or another. The motive and the action make a unique person with whom we empathize and share the same feeling. Some universal themes include love, hatred, revenge, suffering and betrayal. It is easy to pick one of the universal theme but creating it into a wonderful and unforgettable story really requires inspiration, craftsmanship and building blocks. Read more »
Breaking Bad: a new start
I will not be lingering on this post to explain what happened in the past three months. A lot of things happened, and I felt I am a changed man due to the lessons and harsh realities life throws at me. No, I will not write about what happened. Read more »
Three ways to use Twitter on Symbian phones
I am no twitter fan but as G.F*W gets so omnipotent, I guess I should dig a tiny hole in it by using twitter anyway. Read more »
Overheated House Market in China
I wonder how long will this continue… Last Sunday I helped my relatives to buy two apartment suites in the peripheral area of Xiamen, and it was not an enjoyable shopping experience. Read more »
How to bypass firewalls under Firefox
I previously used QuickProxy addon for Firefox but found that it failed to load Youtube for me. Today I changed my proxyfier into FoxyProxy and it solved all my problems. Here is a brief tutorial of how to use it under Firefox. Read more »
Happiness: new understanding
Now I have a new perspective of what happiness is: it is more dependent on what you don’t have than what you have and plan to have. Read more »
Running Hiren’s BootCD from hard drive
Hiren’s BootCD is easily rankings itsself among the best boot cds and system maintainance tools. I have configured it to run both from my USB stick or directly from hard disk. Here is how to boot Hiren’s BootCD from the hard disk using grub for dos (grub4dos). Read more »