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Santa only comes when you are asleep now
I have been Santa Clause ever since Benjamin was born. We spent his first 3 Christmas in Sweden, so I was Tomten, the Swedish version of Santa. During Benjamin’s 3rd and 4th Christmas, he commented that Tomten / Santa wears the same shoes as Daddy’s and he sounded like Daddy. We were alarmed:-) So on…
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MSDN, Technet, or other technical subscriptions to give away?
I learned that Microsoft is giving away some MSDN subscriptions to MVPs for them to share with people in the community. If you are an MVP or Microsoft and reading this, I wonder if I can get a subscription for free:-) I got one year subscription of TechNet through a drawing last January, and it…
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Say cheese, say bless you
Today I provide the information below for your enlightenment, my dear reader;) I will resume posting useless information tomorrow. To get a fake smile when taken a picture, you can say cheese. When somebody sneezes, you can say bless you. In China, at least in the region where I am from, you say 茄子 (eggplant)…
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Will take skating classes
I’ve done ice skating twice this year. My performance exceeded my own expectations. And I had fun doing it. So I’ve decided to take another skating class from the Park District to make my fundamentals more solid. The first time I attempted ice skating was in Västerås, Sweden, around Christmas of 1999. I didn’t have…
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What’s in a name
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.” So says Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Actually, in many parts of the world, people’s names are used and written in a way that probably could surprise Shakespeare. Allow me to explain from my own Chinese…