Dolphin coming to town (Bandar Sunway), we all got a little excited this morning while seeing this at the road side.
We grabbed the URL and hit with the browser, and got this:
It is funny that people spent thousands on making a signboard, but couldn’t get their URL right.
How much for a friendster.com link anyway?
I have not eaten this dish before, and I have promised myself not to eat it by all means.
Go ahead, click this if you want to know why.
Don’t click if you still prefer to enjoy this dish – you’ve warned.
Learn about it at http://www.nofoiegras.org/
I’ve been forced to upgrade WordPress due to its many security holes. One of it even allows remote password injection, and easily hijack the admin login – damn it.
It seem all the “more popular” applications (or OSes) are usually more venerable for attack and “less secure”.
What kind of theory is that?
Even if I wrote crappy software, with all kind of holes, there isn’t any hack and crack at all since there isn’t any user too.
So it make sense?
I guess so.
我第一次接触蔡礼旭的讲座，是四十片VCD的“如何做一个真正如法的好人”。
单看他的讲座标题，已经觉得罗嗦，还滔滔四十片，讲四十个小时，真是不可思议。朋友把这四十片VCD推了给我，我一放就放了好几个月。
我对古圣先贤没有什么好感，因为他们留下来的文字，不但苦涩难明，而且太过模棱两可。
蔡礼旭浸泡在大量的古书之中，以正面和积极的观点加以诠释，以柏杨的说法，就是“自从孔丘先生之后，四千年间，没有出过一个思想家！所以认识字的人，都在那里批注孔丘的学说，或批注孔丘门徒的学说，自己没有独立的意见”。
蔡礼旭站在巨人的肩膀上，借了古圣先贤一臂之力（好大的一臂），将“弟子规”的精髓，以大量的生活例子诠释出来，如果没有“独立的意见”，是很难做到的。
这一套“如何经营无怨无悔的人生”，同样是四十集，要把它看完，是很难的。除非里头有香港连续剧的天马行空，五光十色。
但是如果你对教育下一代感到力不从心，面对新时代小孩的叛逆和顽固头痛不已，这里头可能给你答案。
谨以这四十集的下载，送给有缘人。
01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 39, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40
Got this email from friend, I trust what in it is mostly true, the punch line is:
有这么好的疗法,只要大力的在医院推广，就能够减少因心脏病而丧失宝贵的生命，黄医生告诉我医学界也有他们的苦衷，大力推广将会影响到专科医生的生计。
Modern medication sucks.
Here goes:
一位朋友严重心脏病，动脉95%阻塞，医院建议做导管手术，不保证100%成功，手术过后还需要修养一段时间、长期要吃药，还好遇到贵人相告，做了螯合疗法的系列疗程，效果显著，不止阻塞问题解决了，高血压、胆固醇也没了。
我好奇亲自到诊所找医生了解，原来是我之前就已经认识的黄医生。
黄医生七十多岁，还很精神，拥有连锁诊所。黄医生告诉我螯合疗法其实是很简单的，既是静脉注射，也就是打点滴两个小时，过后不会有任何不舒服，可继续工作。
利用螯合媒介 EDTA乙二氨四乙酸 (Ethylene Diamine Tetracetyc Acid), 去除体内有害的重金属，如铅、水银、铝等等。EDTA是一种合成氨基酸与重金属链合后，随尿液完全彻底被排出体外，绝不残留在体内，因此，它是一项安全无副作用的疗法。
过去五十年来，螯合疗法已在欧美被使用。美国、纽西兰和澳洲的医生以及毒物学者，以此进行铅和水银等引起的‘重金属中毒’的治疗。今天，在这些国家里，不少医生和内科医生采用螯合疗法，治疗各种因动脉硬化导致血流受阻，形成血液循环不顺畅或血液不足而造成的疾病，例如缺血性心脏疾病、糖尿病性坏疽、糖尿病视网膜病等等。螯合疗法对血管有关的疾病有非常显著的疗效与效果，例如：高血压、高胆固醇、缺血性心脏病( 血管堵塞 )、已进行心脏绕道或导管手术数年后旧病复发者、糖尿病和糖尿病的并发症、脑血管疾病 ( 中风 )，手脚容易冰冷、手脚容易麻痹、记忆力衰退、容易疲劳、视力逐渐衰退等等。而且此疗法收费很实惠,每次 只收费 RM300 一个疗程10次只收费 RM2,500。
这里有一个很大的疑问？有这么好的疗法,只要大力的在医院推广，就能够减少因心脏病而丧失宝贵的生命，黄医生告诉我医学界也有他们的苦衷，大力推广将会影响到专科医生的生计。
这段话让我更深深感受到，人生中很多时候在这大环境里，真的是人在江湖身不由己。
想帮助很多人，他们就会有机会受到帮助吗？大环境能允许吗？好东西就一定会被推广吗？所以在人生中当我们遇到困难、挫折、病痛等等，是否有机缘遇到贵人的相助或相告，真的就不能不相信运气的重要。
就好像几十年来我从来都没听说过有螯合疗法的存在，不然的话，我已经告诉了身边的朋友，他们相信的话就可能不需要受动手术之苦，有一些朋友更会因为此疗法而得救，没有离开人间。黄医生的螯合疗法诊所：
康福保健中心
Natural Health & Wellness Center (Ng & Wong Clinic, Dr. Ng)
349-C, Jalan Pudu,55100 Kuala Lumpur ( Pudu PLaza 附近 Tiara Hotel 斜对面 )
Tel: 603-92227989/6989 Email adress: ngahkow@pd.jaring.my
The iPhone is an interesting device. I have been using it as my primary phone for over a few months, and decided to switch back to a broken Nokia N80 instead.
What went wrong?
I think it could be just me. iPhone 3G is particularly slow in everything. I have just over 300 records in the phone book, and realized that it wasn’t easy for me to search for a particular record to make call, if I have the patient to wait 5 seconds just for the address book to load, another 5 seconds for the keyboard to show.
I am getting about 50 SMS a day, and if I don’t clear them off fast enough, I’ll be spending more seconds just to open the SMS app to get the list scrolling.
Texting in this fellow wasn’t easy. Although it is much easier then doing it on my N80, but I sent most of SMS by writing it on MacBook (full keyboard), bluetooth over to the phone to get it out (BluePhoneElite).
I’ve been very reluctant to send SMS recently due to the fact that I am using the iPhone, as I can only text it with the minuscule “virtual” keyboard on it. Certainly a waste of time and I started to call more instead of texting.
For this my friend, I am giving it up. At least on the SMS.
The speaker is just too soft for hand free. I have never managed to get a comfortable conversation with the speaker on. The N80 on the other hand, is too good at this, even over some noisy engines at the middle of the street.
I have good hearing, and I usually set the volume on the N80 to slightly over the middle when I answer phone calls (not at hand free mode). I have to push the iPhone volume all the way to the max, and barely listen to what the fellow say on the other end – and very often, people found my voice too soft for them.
For this, I would have to let it go too. As a phone, I would say iPhone score 5/10 as phone functionalities, and 3/10 on SMS.
iPhone OS 3.0 and iPhone 3GS might improved a little, but I doubt: look at the feature Apple has highlighted – compass and video cam.
The iPhone has one thing good: I can ssh into my server to perform some quick fixes. But it really not a big deal. My N80 does that too, couple with bluetooth portable keyboard, ssh on N80 is still more comfortable.
It has GPS, cool, but when I need direction while driving, the Garmin GPS is a device that I trust more.
iPhone is still very handy all rounded. I feel easier if I just bring the iPhone out, leaving all my gadgets and MacBook behind. But when I work on my MacBook, iPhone become irrelevant.
One of my servers has just hit a 1000 days uptime.
[root@us root]# uptime
18:04:20 up 1000 days, 11:30, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
I am in this business far too long.
I’ve just performed a whois lookup on google.com. The result was rather amusing. Here goes:
whois google.com
Whois Server Version 2.0Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZ.DOWNLOAD.MOVIE.ONLINE.ZML2.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZNAET.PRODOMEN.COM
GOOGLE.COM.WORDT.DOOR.VEEL.WHTERS.GEBRUIKT.SERVERTJE.NET
GOOGLE.COM.VN
GOOGLE.COM.UY
GOOGLE.COM.UA
GOOGLE.COM.TW
GOOGLE.COM.TR
GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SPROSIUYANDEKSA.RU
GOOGLE.COM.SERVES.PR0N.FOR.ALLIYAH.NET
GOOGLE.COM.SA
GOOGLE.COM.PLZ.GIVE.A.PR8.TO.AUDIOTRACKER.NET
GOOGLE.COM.MX
GOOGLE.COM.IS.SHIT.SQUAREBOARDS.COM
GOOGLE.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
GOOGLE.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET
GOOGLE.COM.IS.APPROVED.BY.NUMEA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE.THAN.SECZY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.DO
GOOGLE.COM.CO
GOOGLE.COM.BR
GOOGLE.COM.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
GOOGLE.COM.AU
GOOGLE.COM.ACQUIRED.BY.CALITEC.NET
GOOGLE.COMTo single out one record, look it up with “xxx”, where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with “=xxx” to receive a full display for each record.>>> Last update of whois database: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:23:42 UTC <<<
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registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is
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