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8月28日

Mobile Carriers in China - 国内三大移动运营商

昨天中移动(CHL)刚公布上半年良好盈利,王建宙就出来说TD-SCDMA还有许多技术问题要解决。其原话“Compared with other 3G technologies, TD-SCDMA is still a few years behind.”
 
 
该股票在昨晚港股和今日道琼斯股市上应声下跌。
 
鉴于新中电信(CHA)将采用较为成熟的WCDMA的3G技术,以及其原有的小灵通市场,故看多CHA,新联通(CHU) 持平(整合CDMA2000的原因),建议减持中移动CHL
8月27日

开学、考试、时光流逝

每天上班路过社区里的初中,一向安静的校门口昨天突然车水马龙十分热闹,我才意识到是学校开学了,夏天已经过去了,秋天来了。
 
这个夏天留下了不少美好的记忆,奥运会,海边野炊,山上hiking,湖上泛舟,天天游泳。但是,好日子总是要过去的,All good things must come to an end eventually。
 
最近老做一个类似的梦,好像是快期末了,中间缺了不少课,最后一堂复习课又迟到了。眼看就要大考了,可这一个学期上的内容还一点不懂呢,急得不行了,梦就醒了。不知这个梦预示着什么。
 
8月23日

校友聚会

今天去了ISU圣地亚哥校友聚会,在Del Mar的San Dieguito Park,热热闹闹,环境、食物都不错,组织者花了不少精力。
 
车里的GPS很荒唐,居然让我走一条25mile的路线,还好走前查了Google Map,local不过10个mile。不能盲从GPS啊。
 
 
8月17日

Thoughts on Michael Phelps' 8 Gold Medals in Beijing Olympics

Much has been written about Michael Phelps' historical 8 gold medals in Beijing Olympics this week.
 
While we acclaimed for his great victory, what is this going to leave to everyone of us after the game and all the glories fade away from our memory?
 
Let's remember what he said about his achivement:
 
"Everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it."
 
"With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it took was a little imagination"
 
当我们日夜守在电视机前为奥运选手摘金夺银欢呼雀跃时,当这一届奥林匹克运动会的绚丽辉煌在我们的记忆里渐渐淡出时,还有什么留下来了?
 
那就是奥林匹克的精神,更快更高更强,和为实现目标的坚持不懈。
 
菲尔普斯总结了:“当你全心投入,努力去做,一切(目标)都是有可能实现的”。
 
要敢于想象,only sky is your limit。
8月13日

Excel with SQL Stored Procedures

This article describes how you can run SQL queries including stored procedures inside Office Excel.
 
 
This is particular useful for business analysts who are used to waiting for data extract from developers and manuplate further in Excel to create nice-looking charts and figures.
8月11日

iPhone's Kill Switch

iPhone's "kill switch" was confirmed by Steve Job in an interview with Wall Street Journal (WSJ)
 
 
This is what I don't like Apple in general: they think they are too smart. How dare you mess with my device (iphone) without permission?! After I paid for it (with my hard-earned $), it is no longer you Apple's device, but my personal property. Better keep that in mind and don't be too cute.
 
Excerpt from that WSJ original article below:

Apple raised hackles in computer-privacy and security circles when an independent engineer discovered code inside the iPhone that suggested iPhones routinely check an Apple Web site that could, in theory trigger the removal of the undesirable software from the devices.

Mr. Jobs confirmed such a capability exists, but argued that Apple needs it in case it inadvertently allows a malicious program -- one that stole users' personal data, for example -- to be distributed to iPhones through the App Store. "Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull," he says.

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8月10日

Watching the Olympics the 2nd Day - 观奥运第二天

早上起来,看了两场奥运篮球的比赛重播,意大利对安哥拉,中国对美国。
 
然后是昨晚(昨夜)部分游泳,男排,沙滩排球,赛艇等比赛的重播。
 
这就到了下午两三点了。吃了点东西,打了个盹,NBC就开始重播跳水和女子体操。
 
七点不到出去散步,外面已是彩霞满天。
 
回来赶快切到CCTV一台,北京时间上午游泳的决赛。北岛康介100米蝶夺金,美国4x100接力最后反超夺冠菲尔普斯再添一金。再次bs一下NBC不给直播。
 
看电视间隙把准宝宝的博客开通了,http://mzhongsdsu.spaces.live.com
 
停笔时,NBC主持人Bob Costas正在采访小布什。之后还有好多直播或重播的比赛,so the night is still young, enjoy it!!!
8月9日

游泳比赛还是得看CCTV

原以为NBC会直播今天的部分游泳决赛,毕竟有菲尔普斯(Michael Phelps)冲金。
 
也许是美西时间的关系,CCTV正在直播,可是NBC还在播本地新闻。
 
看来还得看CCTV的。
8月8日

我的PDA手机的用途

我的手机是T-Mobile MDA (HTC 838 的TMobile 版本), OS是Windows Mobile 5,已经用了一年多了,款式不是新的了但还是挺好用的。
 
功能上除了电话,平时天天用的
  • 公司电子邮件: Mobile Outlook, pushed via Microsoft Exchange 2003 server
  • 个人电子邮件: hotmail by Mobile Outlook, and gmail by mobile explorer
  • Instant Messaging: 以前用Windows Live Messenger,只能用MSN,现在用了IMOV (mobile version of Jabber),可以同时用MSN和Yahoo
  • 个人信息管理(PIM): 主要是Calender,Contacts, Tasks, 等等,都通过ActiveSyn 和Outlook以及Exchange主机同步。
  • eWallet: 保存个人重要信息,如各种帐号,口令等,与PC同步
  • ListPro:管理项目和各种清单等,我的GTD(如果你知道GTD是什么的话)
  • 电子书阅读器:最近读的是《白银谷》
  • 闹铃,每天早上叫醒我,可以调闹铃音乐
  • 另外同时也是最重要的,浏览网页,尤其是适合手机屏幕的WAP网页,如WSJ Mobile(Wall Street Journal), Google Reader, 新华手机网,twitter.com等

偶然用一下的功能:

  • 计算器
  • 黄历万年历(还是有点迷信哦)
  • 照相功能,拍个大头照加到联系人记录里
  • Microsoft Live Search
  • Google Map, 其实这两个都是很有用的,尤其是在外面迷了路或要临时查找信息
  • 在线股票交易,用了Scottrade的Mobile version,多数是检查Portfolio,但知道应急时可以随时买卖股票就放心了
  • 笔记本电脑通过手机当Modem来上网,速度不快,和过去拨号差不多,也就是应急时用用
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接下来换新手机必须具备的功能:

  • 3G,上网速度要快
  • 内置GPS芯片,没有GPS, Live Search 和Google Map 的功能就打折了,而且也不能有turn-by-turn driving directions

 

 
8月5日

Randy Pausch and His Life Journey

A friend of mine passed on the video of Randy Pausch's "the Last Lecture" to me.
 
 
I was so impressed by the video that I went back and read through all his personal blog of daily health updates:
 
 
Most touching words from his blog of health:
 
Shortly after my terminal diagnosis, I knew that one of my biggest priorities was to create memories for my children.

Chloe and Logan are both so young that it's likely they'll have no direct memories of me. Dylan is the oldest, and at 5 (turns 6 in December), his memories are likely to be fuzzy. Hence the engineering question: What would make for the sharpest, most visceral memory, esp. for a kid who loves animals? Answer: go for a Dolphin Swim!

 
What a brilliant, inspiring and optimistic individual with an unfortunate early-termination of his life but a tremendous impact on the society and many minds!!!
 
For those of you who don't know him yet, here is a short bio from Wiki
 
Randolph Frederick Pausch[1] (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a best-selling author who achieved worldwide fame for his "The Last Lecture" speech on September 18, 2007 at Carnegie Mellon. The lecture was conceived after, in summer 2007, Pausch had learned that his previously known pancreatic cancer was terminal.
 
Randy Pausch
8月4日

观电影《赤壁》

看了最近的大片《赤壁》,总的说挺失望的:
  1. 战场厮杀场景太多,故事进展太慢。两个多小时的电影,到片末连火烧赤壁的情节还没开始,就“且听下回分解”。晕,现在都开拍电影连续剧了?
  2. 古人对话用现代口语,什么“我扇鹅毛扇是要随时保持冷静”,给幼马取名叫“萌萌”,搞笑。估计此片要是火了的话以后孩子名字没人再叫萌萌了。
  3. 场面还算大,取景还可以,估计又想蒙蒙奥斯卡评委们了
8月3日

Upgraded eWallet to 6.1

I have been using eWallet for quite some time. It is one of my favorite applications on Windows Mobile and I almost use it daily, on both PC and mobile phone.
 
Today I upgraded it to the latest version 6.1, and I immediately like the following 2 features in this version:
 
1. phone numbers are mobile-hyperlinkable, meaning on mobile phone you can just click the number and it will dial out for you.
2. any type of fields is customizable, they can be renamed, change type, etc.
 
of course, I also like the additional icon pack (http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/ew/ew_icons.php) that comes with 6.1
 
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