The Ji Village News

Author: Haidong Ji

  • 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…

  • All books were sent out

    I decided to gave away the extra copies of my book. In the US, I sent 2 copies to Ohio, one each to Florida and Texas. Overseas, I sent 2 copies to India, and one copy to Australia. I had tea/coffee with a reader in the Chicago area and hand-delivered a copy to her. In…

  • Fixing remote connection problem for Microsoft SQL Server 2005

    Today I played with a server setup a few months ago but has since been neglected. It has Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition on it. I got the following error when trying to connect to it using sqlcmd integrated authentication from my workstation: C:\>sqlcmd -S MyServer HResult 0x35, Level 16, State 1 Named Pipes…

  • Setting sqlcmd environment variables

    In this post, I talked about how you can set your default editor for sqlcmd. At the end of that post, I asked how to make that variable persist. To do that, you can create an environment variable. For example, you can create an environment variable called sqlcmdeditor, and give it the value of your…

  • Interesting reading on China, media, and censorship

    Here are some links to a few very interesting entries on China, media, and censorship. Bingfeng has a piece on PBS’ Frontline discussion with his own comment. He updated his entry with a reader’s comment. That comment was from me, so you kind of know where I stand 🙂 By the way, I couldn’t leave…