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The year of the Yao
I rented and watched The Year of The Yao from Netflix recently. It was a documentary of Yao Ming’s rookie season. We all enjoyed it. I have great admiration for Yao Ming. When he came to the NBA, he was just 22 years old, with language, cultural, and social barriers to overcome, not to mention…
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No edit in DOS on Windows 64-bit
I’ve been working with 64-bit SQL Server 2005 laterly. I just finished setting up a 2-node SQL Server 2005 cluster with SP1 on AMD 64-bit processors with Windows 2003 R2. 64-bit is really sweet. Anyway, I guess the venerable DOS editor named edit is not ported to 64-bit machines. I figured this out when testing…
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Lincoln Park Zoo
Benjamin and I went to Lincoln Park Zoo on Good Friday. I actually couldn’t remember when we visited the zoo before that. We had a great time. I highly recommend it if you are in town and have time. Admission is free. There are bus stops at the zoo. I think the one we took…
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Old computers at Dallas Children’s Museum
We went to Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, for my son’s spring break. My brother’s family just moved there recently. With everybody being new to the area, I didn’t know which place to visit for some fun. Naturally, I started looking for Children’s museums. Some web search revealed there is a place called Dallas…
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Ji Village will get running water soon
I talked to my mom today. She told me that my hometown, the Ji Village, will have running water soon. Isn’t that amazing? When I was growing up, my hometown was your typical Chinese village: no paved road, no electricity, no tv, no cars, even tractors were rare. In fact, if for whatever reason, a…